Growing up in a small village in the Netherlands, photographer Nick van Tiem developed his eye as a documentary photographer at the Royal Academy of Arts after leaving home. Upon graduation, Nick predominantly worked for newspapers but a need for change arose from inside. This change for Nick meant breaking away from the discipline he…
Having fallen in love with the magic created by a never-failing pinhole camera and darkroom, and discovering how she could paint with light and bring mood into her images, Thandiwe Msebenzi found photography to be her unexpected fine art soul mate. Since this initial blossoming of her passion for images, coupled with the desire to…
‘Fragments of the Physical’ by Myles Pedlar is reflective of their own catharsis of gender confines which is visually cued by the fluid forms their models are shaped to. It is unclear where a body begins and where it ends, therefore they become infinite. The abstraction of the human form is attained with distorting objects-blown…
Based in Spain photographer Mijal Perez Saggio began constructing images four years ago after finishing school and attending the Institut of Photography in Buenos Aires. Attending briefly, she left for Brazil where she stayed for three months photographing natural phenomena and people. After returning home she elaborates that it was difficult for her to create…
e wá wo mi meaning come look at me in Yoruba, is a new photographic series by Nigerian artist Lakin Ogunbanwo which examines the ritual of the wedding ceremony. Igbo brides are adorned with orange beaded caps, necklaces or ivory bracelets. The Yoruba bride wears a gele – a stiff pleated headscarf – indicating both…
21-year-old fashion photographer Paul Edwards Musoke was born in Kampala, Uganda and relocated to Sweden at the age of 12. Paving his journey with photography by starting to capture his friends roughly 3 and a half years ago, he has been interpreting the world with his lens ever since. In the short life span of…
21-year-old Moscow based photography student of the Rodchenko Art School, Ekaterina Odina began taking in life with a camera at the age of 13. Nurturing and building on her expression she explains that it took her up to four years to push deliberate aesthetics in her shoots. “In photos, I express my opinion nonverbally. I…
Chameleon is a photo essay about visibility and stands as a conversation between masculinities and space. Looking beyond heteronormative confines the still frames evoke the love, joy and safe environments of people that exist outside these constructs that can be suffocating. A narrative both personal and collective in nature we are opened up to emotion,…
John Baloyi is perhaps best known for his portraiture and street style photographs captured in Johannesburg and its surrounds. People photographed confidently, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes more ethereal with a love of lensing his wife Itumeleng Baloyi. Traversing between digital and analogue he seeks out composition and colour within urban and more natural environments. Moving between…
Singapore based Nico Lim is currently in his second year of study in Animation at the LASALLE College of the Arts. Framing images has formed a part of his ritual since he received his first iPhone at 14 documenting the world around him wherever he went. Subdued tones. Soft lighting. A frame conceptualized before the…
Having worked on a small collaboration together in 2017, Lunga Ntila and Natalie Paneng have been following the development of each other’s work, and we’re glad they decided to pool ideas and resources together again. Their latest project ‘Life Be A Drag’ highlights the similarities in their individual practices, while bringing a freshness that only…
Warmth, faces, composure, a glare, melanin accentuated —it is all in the lighting. When the light hits my face at just the right angle, all my problems disappear. This simple line sounds frivolous and nonchalant, but it is exactly the kind of care-free attitude that black girls, black women and black bodies have been denied….
