Interview: Photographer Spends 10 Years Capturing the Visual Symphony of Waves Australian photographer Ray Collins has turned his love of the sea into a career with his stunning wave photography. For years we’ve watched as the colorblind photographer advanced his career, first with his series Seascapes and most recently with his collaborative cinemagraphs. Collins, who bought his first camera in 2007 and left a job as … Continue reading Ray Collins Photography

Photographer who found fame with his portrait of Christine Keeler, which came to embody the permissiveness of the 1960s Lewis Frederick Morley (16 June 1925 – 3 September 2013), created many of the era-defining images of the 1960s. These include his portrait of Christine Keeler, almost nude, straddling Morley’s studio chair. Morley felt the photograph was a millstone round his neck but nevertheless reluctantly reprinted … Continue reading Lewis Morley Photography

Renowned fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville (July 6, 1932 – October 24, 2013) was known as the “anti-Helmut Newton” for her approach to fashion photography, Turbeville favoured location over the clothes as the focus of the image, often overexposing and scratching the negatives to give the images a sense of decay. Having shot for magazines including American, French and Italian Vogue, Turbeville’s most famous shoot was the 1975 Bath … Continue reading Deborah Turbeville Photography

Eolo Perfido is a professional photographer and Leica ambassador who lives in Rome, Italy. He got started with photography later in life, after he suddenly discovered his passion and talent for photography. As a former graphic designer, Eolo discussed how photography has two levels that both need to be captured: the technical side (where his graphic design background comes in handy) and the human element. … Continue reading Eolo Perfido Photography

Visionary photographer and designer, Harri Peccinotti, takes little credit for his successes, attributing them to a simple love of the camera and this beauty of the female form. thomas schwab: On my way to your place, I ran into a friend. When I told him I was en route to interview you, he got really excited. “Ask him about his relationship with the models on his … Continue reading Harri Peccinotti

Street Photography is What Keeps Me Sane: Jerry Pena from New York Jerry: My name is Jerry Pena and I’m a 27 year old construction worker living in upstate NY. I have a lot of time off in between jobs and street photography is what keeps me sane. I have always noticed the strange characters and interesting moments that happen on the streets of NYC … Continue reading Jerry Pena Photograpy

Sebastian Łuczywo is a father-of-two who creates stunning and heart-warming photos of his family and pets in a small, quaint and beautiful rural village in Poland. Łuczywo, a business adviser by day and devoted photographer by night, talks about his passion for photography. Sebastian’s images are beautiful still-lifes in a natural setting with a somewhat atmospheric and surreal touch. “I tried to show life in … Continue reading Sebastian Łuczywo Photography

Shanghai-based photographer Leslie Zhang’s work encompasses striking portraits with bold colors, atmospheric documentary shots and stylized fashion commissions. His feeling for composition and use of bright primary colors portrays the artist’s penchant for his own Chinese nostalgia. Being given opportunities to work in fashion meant that at first, Zhang’s work was about what was contemporary. However, as time has progressed, the photographer goes more with … Continue reading Leslie Zhang Photography

American photographer Bruce Davidson is one of the notable members of the prestige photography agency Magnum Photos. Like co-founders Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and George Rodger, Davidson focused his lens on the humanist side of society. In the late fifties, New York was plagued by youth gangs. Gang ‘rumbles’ became so frequent that a Youth Board was formed to stop the violence. A … Continue reading Bruce Davidson Photography

Protest in Paris, 1934 David Szymin was born in 1911 in Warsaw into a family of publishers that produced works in Yiddish and Hebrew. His family moved to Russia at the outbreak of the First World War, returning to Warsaw in 1919. After studying printing in Leipzig and chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne in the 1930s, Szymin stayed on in Paris. David Rappaport, a … Continue reading David Seymour, ‘Chim’, Photography