Never Edit  says, "Watching people has fascinated me since childhood... the variety of their looks, behaviour, expressions, and emotions. I tried to memorize what I saw, using my eyes as camera and my brain as hard disk. When I first heard of street photography a couple of years ago, it felt like I found "home". Saving that split second forever not only in my memory but as a photograph is what I've become addicted to.
 
When I go out, I have nothing specific in mind, I just shoot whatever I find interesting, and I prefer the candid spontaneous shot anytime over picture-perfect or posed photos.
 
Living in Germany, I feel restricted by the laws and the lack of good light, so I travel to other countries as often as possible to pursue my passion."
 

 

www.never-edit.com
https://www.instagram.com/never.edit

Norman Mark Aragones says, "The main paradigm in my photographic art revolves around the concept of depth (having some level of meaning within the photo and thus attempting to elicit a viewer's reaction through deliberate imagery).

My hope is that the viewer comes away with some feeling, idea, and/or perspective from seeing my photo(s). The techniques I use in creating photographic images are not something specific. I just try to work diligently in creating something in particular (that I had envisioned previously in my mind's eye)."

Norman was born in San Francisco, California. As a young person, he learned how important art was in his life. He was sickly throughout much of his childhood. Thus, he had to learn to use his imagination, and it fueled his creativity in art. Currently, he is experimenting with numerous photographic theories and techniques in an attempt to express ideas in a meaningful way visually.

IMAGES FOR SALE-

Hope
16" H x 24" W
Aluminum metal
$400 
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back



America.
16" H x 20" W
Metallic paper/Acrylic
$400
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back



Growing Up
16" H x 24" W
Metallic paper/Acrylic
$400 
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back



Grandmother Praying
16" H x 20" W
Metallic paper/Acrylic
$400
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back



Family
16" H x 20" W
Metallic paper/Acrylic
$400 
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back



Alone
15" H x 10" W
Metallic paper/Acrylic
$400
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back

Contact artist norman.aragones@gmail.com

Oliver Raschka says, "When you look into the eyes of a teenager, you get unfiltered insight into the momentary emotional state of a person who seems caught in the here and now, but is the future at all times. 

The ongoing series SERIOUSLY MYSTERIOUS is about the times of upheaval, of being in-beTWEEN. No one said it would be easy. Neither for the youth nor for their parents. The weird sounds of puberty have long since drowned out the playful melody of childhood. The photographs are narratives from the long-term visual sociology that documents in a candid and natural manner the challenging everyday of my teenager boys in pandemic times, dealing with issues of brotherhood adolesence, isolation, rebellion, nut also love and self-determination. All at the same time. No posing, no staging. Just real life in tense times. Framing identity. Experience youthhood myself once again and my relation to my parents."
 
Oliver Raschka studied and holds a doctorate in the field of behavioral economics. This helps him to capture the dynamics and specifics of social relationships in his photography. For many years, the photographic autodidact has been dealing with the subject of family and the search for his own identity, among other things, in documentary format. He loves black-and-white photography, coffee is the drug of his choice, and loud rock music is what he likes.

His first book THE WORLD AIN'T ENOUGH documenting the lives of his sons over a period of ten years was published in 2020 via BUMMBUMM BOOKS (Cologne). He lives with his family in Stuttgart, Germany.
 
Career Highlights:
German Photobook Prize 20|21 (Bronze), Gomma Grant 2020 (Shortlist), Budapest International Foto Awards 2002 (Gold), Lenscratch, Der Spiegel, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Magazin, Schwarzweiss Magazin, Photographie Magazin, C4 Journal, AINT-BAD Magazine, Loupe Magazine, Hamburger Eyes Magazine, C41 Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, DFA Magazin, Opus Fotopreis 2017 (Award), Seltmann Fotopreis 2014 (Award).
 


 

Ora Buerkli says, " After years of exploring many different photography genres Ora discovered street photography and knew that she has found her space. She loves roaming the streets, looking for the unusual in the usual, She enjoys immensely the encounters on the street no matter how short or wordless, and loves the discovery of new places, cultures and people. The camera has become an important key to new worlds, adventures, and experiences.

As a street photographer the people I photograph are at the core of my work. It is the motivation and the reward for a hard day’s work in the streets.Sometimes my activities go unnoticed, at other times the people I photograph become aware of my presence. The reactions vary vastly, they go from gifting me a smile, to showing curiosity, puzzlement and on occasion anger. One way or another a connection is made. Often wordless and brief but a connection nevertheless."

Career Highlights

Ora's photos have been exhibited at several group exhibitions curated by Women Street Photographers and Exxplore Vision. In addition, one of her photos has recently won Silver Medal from the Paris International Street photography awards contest. Furthermore, two of her photos will be published in DPSP street volume 2, and she was the winner of the DPSP donation award 2021. Honorary mention single photo, L.A. Curator award 2022. 

 

www.orabuerkliphoto.com
www.instagram.com/orabuerkli

Paul Matzner says of his series "FACING YOU/FACING ME', "We pass people on the street every day without making eye contact or even acknowledging their presence. We are connected to our music, our phones, our technology, but not necessarily to the people around us. I have chosen to share a momentary, public intimacy with those passersby so that I can gaze longer at their faces and value their humanity. We need each other in this world.
This project features photographs made in Milwaukee, Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles from 2014 - 2018.

Father, husband, dog owner, photographer, music lover, ... I have lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin all my life but have traveled to the South Pacific, Western Europe, South America, and 48 states of the USA. I also spent time in New York City each year from 2008 - 2018 to do street photography, which culminated in my book, Seeing You In New York.

I am honored that my fine art photography has been juried into numerous shows, and my work is in the collection of the Racine Art Museum. My stock images have been licensed through Alamy for many publications, textbooks, and corporate."


 

www.paulmatzner.com

Pere Ibañez says, "Living in China for the last 15 years I’ve spent big part of my life away from my birth place, family and childhood friends. This chosen self-isolation has given me an immense time of reflection and the chance to deal with inner demons, which eventually turned into most of my early dark themed works. 

Since I majored in filmmaking, my photos have always had a cinematic flair and a penchant for the dramatic. I prepare every photoshoot the same way I would with a film scene, where the models are more like actors playing a role.

Over the years my work has evolved in a natural way, the anger has subdued and the emotions have become the leading force. Events like the sudden passing of my father or the overnight life changing pandemic that overcame us all have transformed even further the way I see what I do, as an essential and therapeutic way I have to communicate. 

Ultimately my photos don’t pretend or aspire to be something that they are not, sometimes dark, campy, at times witty, often dramatic and always emotional."

Over a decade, Barcelona native Pere Ibañez has earned international recognition for his emotionally-charged artwork. Drawing inspiration from the dramatic and suspenseful styles of genre films, these images seek to explore aspects of human nature that often go underplayed and trivialised. Instead, through photography and poetry, Ibañez magnifies both the falls and ascensions of the human experience through his own lens.

Pere Ibañez’s works have been embraced around the globe. His five previous photobooks have been released over 50 countries to date, all of them ranking #1 in iTunes sales for art eBooks in Spain. His work has received international awards and honour mentions while been featured in exhibitions and publications across the US, Asia and Europe.

Having explored themes of domestic violence, societal pressure on the individual, racism and most recently collaborating with Chinese NGO CandleX.cn in a Bipolar Disorder Awareness Campaign, this new collection serves as a tribute and celebration of the life of Pedro Ibañez, his late father. 

Career Highlights:

3 times finalist and honour mentions in the annual best photos of the year  2011, 2012 and 2015 by Photographer’s Forum and Serbin Press.
3r place winner Clash of the Artists Award in NewYork. 
Best book cover design award. 
Jury’s Award by DarkRoom Gallery (Vermont).
International Artist Award nominee by FIA (Fira Internacional d’Art de Barcelona).ñez
Winner of Voices of tomorrow award by CAC. 

 

www.pereibanez.com
www.instagram.com/pereibanez

Prescott  Lassman says, "I am a photographer based in Washington, D.C. focusing mainly on black-and-white photography — somewhere between street and documentary with a strong dose of minimalism for good measure.  My subject matter and interests are eclectic, but my approach is mostly intuitive. I search for images that resonate, for moments of synchronicity in everyday life. Because this approach relies on unconscious triggers, my photographs are often richly symbolic, though their meaning is not immediately clear (at least not to me).  For me, this is the essence of photography: capturing an image that resonates and then, over the course of months or years, figuring out why.

The photographs submitted here are from different time periods and bodies of work but all focus on that expected or unexpected connection between photographer and subject, or between subjects, that communicates something essential with only the eyes. The “gaze” can be powerful and startling and, for that reason, is often avoided or quickly dropped.  But it is almost always meaningful and communicates feelings and emotions that cannot easily be translated into words.  It is thus a particularly apt subject for photography."

Career Highlights-

City Hall Art Collection, Washington, DC
Individual Artist Fellowship, DCCAH, Washington, DC
Monochrome Awards, Honorable Mention
DC Photo Slam, Audience Choice Award, Photoworks at Glen Echo, MD
8th Annual Allegany National Photography Competition, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD
Women, All About Photo Magazine (online exhibition)
Being Seen: The Photographic Portrait, Morean Arts Center, FL
Privilege and Consequence, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, CO
Notions of Home, Lucie Foundation (online)
Published in: Black & White Magazine, Shots Magazine, AAP Magazine, The Sun Magazine, Antietam Review, and The Washington Post

@lassman_lenswork

Richard Dickson says, "My people photographs are spontaneous and are usually done very quickly even if using a large format camera. But, they always represent some interaction with the subject whether a stranger with a quick permission exchange, a bit of banter and interest in them, or with a friend as a side event to some other activity. I think that in this way the unplanned, informal setting allows the person to be more open, giving both something of their inner selves at that time and the interaction with the photographer.

I am based in London, England, but spent a childhood abroad exposed to different cultures and environments stimulating my visual sense and interest in people. I have been taking photographs since a child observing and being intrigued by the world around us. I have had several careers and now work as a physical therapist but over the last ten years have spent more time on photography categorising my work and seeking or discovering themes and exploring different techniques. I am especially interested in using photographic materials and processes often in unintended ways which can result in another layer or interpretation of a scene.

I have had work exhibited in Europe and the US in group shows and spent a period as Artist in Residence with a solo exhibition at the Willa Cather Foundation in Nebraska."

Career Highlights:
Midwest Center, Wichita  - Juried 2022 - Documentary Award
Manifest Gallery -  finalist 8th Annual Photography Magazine published 2021
First place in New York Center for Photogaphic  Arts  - Street exhibition 2020
Manifest Gallery -  Let There Be - two works shown,  2020
Artist in Residence - Willa Cather Foundation, 2019 with solo show
Photo Zurich 19 - Director’s choice series
The London Group of Artists Open show 2017
London Photo Festival  - Travel theme - Commendation 2017



 

Robert Siegelman says, "My work asks questions about who is being photographed and what is being exposed.  Is it a portrait of the model or the photographer? What is the balance of power and agency in these sessions, which frequently involve models who are younger, of different races, ethnicities and gender-identities. The images explore desire, intimacy, consent and the nature of being touched from a queer perspective.

While some of  these images can potentially be seen as problematic, the photographs are about connection and consent. There is a gray area, to be sure, but one that is rich and revealing. The models are fully engaged in the process and their input is encouraged and respected.

The pictures also speak to the process of aging. Older queer men often feel invisible and undesirable in a culture where youth is valued quite highly. This work is a layered portrayal of coming-to-terms with the male gaze, aging, body image and my own struggle with body positivity.  

The reflected images in the mirrors reveal fracturing, repetition and the dichotomies that are inherent in the work. Sometimes the model or I can be seen more than once in an image, sometimes only the fragment of a body can be seen. The relationship between model and photographer is an exploration of what is revealed and what is being concealed.

Do we ever truly see ourselves in what's reflected in a mirror? Our feelings are powerful, elliptical and ephemeral. We catch a glimpse of who we are and then we are gone."

Robert Siegelman works in photography and taught at Tufts University (The SMFA) in Boston, for forty years. 

His work is in many collections including the Boston Public Library, Harvard, MIT, The Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City, The Leather Achives in Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Notable exhibits include shows at the Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and “untitled male id” at the Angus-Hughes Gallery in London. In 2018 a one-person photography exhibit, titled “In the Flesh” was held at HallSpace in Boston MA. Currently he is exhibiting four photograph at the Ijpromenade, in Amsterdam, through Pride Photo.  The exhibit will be traveling around the Netherlands into 2023

IMAGES FOR SALE:

Bill’s Gaze
17x22 inches
$900 Unframed / Signed on back


Covid’s Gaze
17x22 inches
$900 Unframed / Signed on back


Portrait of Oliver
22x17 inches
$900 Unframed / Signed on back


The Model and The Photographer (Dan)
17x22 inches
$900 Unframed / Signed on back


The Model and The Photographer (Jared)
17x22 inches
$900 Unframed / Signed on back


The Model and The Photographer (Tim)
17x22 inches
$900 Unframed / Signed on back

Contact: Robert Siegelman
Robert.siegelman@gmail.com

 

http://instagram.com/robertsiegelman
https://linktr.ee/robertsiegelman

Samantha Brinkley says, "The images I am submitting come from three different series I have made, yet all carry a similar feeling to their gaze. I found the interconnectivity of that fascinating."

Samantha Brinkley is a digital-focused emerging photographer living and working in Rhinebeck, New York. She graduated from SUNY Purchase in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts and a minor in Art History. She was recently an intern at The Center for Photography at Woodstock and Musée Magazine. 

Samantha’s practice combines her academic background of Gender Studies, Art History and Fine Art to create pieces centered in activism. Her latest series, “Barely Legal,” explores the role that women and girls’ bodies play in advertisements that aim to normalize attraction to younger girls.

Career Highlights: 

1. Honorable Mention - “Enjoy!”. Kingston Annual 2021, Kingston, New York. USA. 2021. 
2. Honorable Mention - L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - Childhood: Past, Present, & Future. 2021. 
3. Juror’s Prize, Second Place - “Branded”. Photowork 2021, Poughkeepsie, New York. USA. 2021
4. LoosenArt, “Political Statement,” Rome, Italy. 2022.


Images For Sale:

Enjoy!
Semimatte inkjet print
24 x 16 in.
Edition 3
Signed on back
$300 unframed

Contact: Samantha Brinkley
samanthabrinkley4@gmail.com



 

https://samanthabrinkley.wixsite.com/portfolio
https://www.instagram.com/samibrinkley
https://www.wherearethewomenartists.com/artists/samantha-brinkley

Shoshana Spencer says, "The portraits in this series are of different people very dear to me. Some of them don’t particularly enjoy being photographed. Others never had a private photoshoot before. I find it interesting how a single portrait can offer a glimpse into certain “hidden” qualities. My grandmother, for example, is a stoic, but beneath her frown is a trace of a smile. Though my sister is feisty and outspoken, her portrait captures a gentleness about her. I take these photographs to understand my subjects better…or perhaps to better understand the person behind the camera."

Shoshana Spencer is an artist and art educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the Digital Art Teacher and Art Department Chair at York Prep School in Manhattan, NY. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in 2013 where she concentrated in Text + Image Arts. She also received her Master of Arts in Teaching from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017.

Career Highlights-

 2022 - Praxis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN, Words, Words, Words, International Juried Group Exhibition

2021 - Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Vision: Shadow and Light, Juried Group Exhibition
 

www.shoshanaspencer.com
www.instagram.com/sha.miri

Susan Lirakis says of her series, 'REALIZING THE QUEST & THE PROCESS OF BECOMING', "Although we are ultimately connected, we must make choices about our own pathways, at the crossroads and on the thresholds.  We do have comparable life experiences.  We undergo similar stages of life, in childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle and old age. Common events bind us together.  We are connected by the bonds of relationship and of experiences.
 
These experiences are frequently represented in the telling of myths and stories, the characters of which become examples for us collectively.  We are all Odysseus; we are all heroes and wage the heroes’ wars and dilemmas.  We are all Little Red Riding Hood, having to grow up and make realizations about humanity.  We are all the princess who loses the golden ball that the frog prince retrieves, having to keep our promises.
 
I began making self-portraits in an attempt to explore voice and the manifestation of spirit.  I have progressed to working with the broader vision of the process of becoming. I have been working with both literal and figurative imagery illustrative of these various life stages and personal quests.
 
The images are prayers. They exhibit impermanence and change that characterize human existence. Representing universal aspects of our lives, of our life stages, characterized metaphorically, they illustrate certain mythological realities. We are all involved in our own process of becoming, yet our quests contain common archetypal elements.  Myths are mirrors in which we see our own faces.  They speak to us in symbol and paradox. These photographs show us on the threshold of our choices.  During periods of passage from one life stage to another, we experience the tumult of making those decisions and the dilemma of choosing.  The images illustrate feelings of times of passage, a time when we most frequently access our own soul.
 
Like myths, these images are filled with feeling and the language of dreaming.  They confront the human conditions of our limitations, our process of becoming and transcendence, the sense of who we are in relation to others and our connection with one another and the universe. The images celebrate our wholeness, our value and purpose.  Whether or not we question or doubt the existence of greater realities, we tend to wish to see the numinous at work in our objective world.  These images chronicle journeys and passages of the soul."

Susan Lirakis began making photographs when she was six years old, after receiving a camera as a baptism gift from godparents. She loves to look, and uses her vision to literally and emotionally orient herself in the world. Though the particular camera that she holds in her hands has changed over the years, it has rarely left them.
 
Although all photographic work, at some level, is a mirror for who we are, Susan works additionally and more directly with herself in an exploration of personal mythology and finding voice. Making interpretive self-portraits using long exposures and little available light, the work has been supported in part by the NH State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
 
Susan’s photographic work also reflects her education in Family Services.  She has made several portrait series – of mothers and daughters, of those living consciously or intuitively from their hearts, of families. She has a nearly forty-year on-going collection that is a visual census and story of her small New England town.  In 1991, working closely with the Tibetan Women’s Association and the Tibetan Nuns Project, she made portraits with nuns and families in an effort to foster awareness of the condition of Tibetan people, specifically under Chinese occupation, and to find support for those in exile.
 
Susan has shared her passion for photographing through the education programming at Sandwich Home Industries, League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, Artist in the School Programming, and North Country Studio Workshops, both leading and organizing workshops and arts activities for all ages.

All images are available for sale, archival pigment prints made on 11"x8.5", image size either 6.5"x6.5" (for square images), or 6.75"x6" for Covenant. Each is unmatted and unframed, signed, $125.
contact Susan Lirakis
lirakis@gmail.com
 

www.susanlirakis.com
https://www.instagram.com/susan.lirakisphoto/

Zorica Purlija migrated at age 8 from Serbia with Montenegrin heritage, to Australia in1972: a country where she could not speak the language. 

As she learned to live in a different culture, she observed that the nuances of human interaction often were more revealing than the words. 

Graduating in 1989 with an Associate Diploma in graphic design and photography with distinction at The University of Western Sydney, Zorica spent some years travelling through Europe, experiencing life and art. She returned to Australia, began a family and devoted herself to full time mothering. 

Since 1999, Zorica has been pursuing her artistic vision, through the medium of photography. 

Initially pursuing themes of beauty, longing and the human experience through photographic portraiture, Zorica developed a unique ability to capture the essence of her subjects, beginning (and continuing) with a series of portraits of her muse, Yumi. 

Psychology and social sciences are current interests informing her artwork, which reflect her time studying for a Masters of Art, which she completed in 2020 at UNSW School of Art and design.


Bio - ZORICA PURLIJA b.1964- 1983-1986 Part of BSC/Architecture Degree Newcastle University.

1989 Associate Diploma of Visual Arts, Major in Photography with Distinction, University of Western Sydney.

2003 Portrait Summer Course, National Art School.   

2007 Represented by Sara Roney Gallery Sydney. 
www.sararoneygallery.com.au

2016 Awarded Student Community and Development Grant for Exhibition The Mother ARC and UNSW 

Kensington.
2017 Awarded Early Curator Award ARC and UNSW School of Art and Design Paddington.

2020 Postgraduate Masters of Art in Digital Media at UNSW Art &Design Paddington 
Campus, Sydney

2021 Represented by Stanley street Gallery

EXHIBITIONS SOLO

2021 Stanley Street Gallery Fade Into You.

Home@735 Gallery Redfern, Portraits of Yumi.

2020  No Man's Land, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney. Unfettered .

2019  PostFRESH Gallery371 Marrickville.NSW.Towards Something_

2016  Crescent.BAROMETER Gallery Paddington.NSW.

2014  Landscape-Jackson Hole.  SARA RONEY Gallery Sydney.

 Images for sale-

Complicated 2019 
Smooth white cotton rag fine art photo paper Framed 54 x 40 cm
Non reflective glass $650 


Home after Surgery 2019 
Smooth fine art cotton rag photo paper Framed 27 x 22 cm
non reflective glass  $250 

Yumi then and Now 2020 
Smooth fine art cotton rag photo paper Framed size 44 x 123 cm.
$980 

https://www.zoricapurlija.com.au/
https://www.instagram.com/zorica_purlija/
zoricapurlija@gmail.com

      

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