Meet John Kilar, photographer based in Venice, California. From the few questions I asked John I got the idea John is not a man of many words. Not that talking is a necessity in any way, as his intense photography is loud enough. Amazing portraits of life, the beaches and vanilla skies of the ‘golden state’, hippie festivals; it’s all documented in John’s travels and adventures. John: “Nature is my biggest inspiration and it never ceases to baffle me. Photography helps me remember the…Read More »
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Derren Versoza is a 22 year old (1989) technical engineering major hailing from Riverside, California. Photography is one of his hobby’s, and one he became damn good at. His portfolio consists out of conceptual/fashion portraits which are completed by shallow depths of fields and great post-processing. I’m sure that Derren’s skills will mature and progress even more over time, so keep an eye out for this young creative talent.
The creative process started little over two years ago, when Derren first picked up a camera….Read More »
There’s nothing quite like traveling, and who better to tell you about that then mother-daughter photography team Nisa and Ulli Maier. Alone and together they travel all across the globe, capturing their explorations in form of inspiring photography. Through the modern miracles of social media and their beautiful website cookiesound.com, they share their stories and photography with friends, family and whoever is interested.
Ulli has been traveling since the early 70’s and has explored all kinds of places only few have…Read More »
The pictures of 22 year old Spanish photographer Dara Scully are just full of imagination! Dara is not just a photographer; she’s a storyteller (and self-proclaimed elephant tamer) who uses different techniques to bring her stories to live. She mixes fantasy with reality seamlessly and turns every picture into a dream, hence the title ‘little dreamers’ for her latest series.
Dara: ” ‘Little dreamers’ is about your inside child. About turning the imaginary into real, about imaginary friends and their laughter in the kitchen. It…Read More »
This is actually the second time that we’re featuring the works of Romanian photographer Dan Oara on CFYE. Unfortunately his picture in Crack-Mag #002 was cancelled due to some (resolved) issues. To my great surprise I received last month a good spirited email from Dan presenting us his new work.
Oara was born in Timisoara, Romania, where he studied industrial design. A few years later he moved to the capital, Bucharest to study cinematography. After…Read More »
Hailing from Maryland but now residing in California, self-taught photographer Michael Wriston (boyghost on Flickr) shows us an amazing United States through his inspiring pictures. Armed with a variety of analogue camera’s (many of which are mid-format) and a positive spirit, Michael captures a United States I immediately want to go to. The striking photos from the streets and people of Baltimore make me think of ‘the Wire’. It also made me think of another Maryland photographer who…Read More »
Aleksander Bochenek (33) is an independent photographer and traveler living in Krakow, Poland. He is fascinated with the world’s cultural variety and visual manifestation of people’s values and beliefs. He uses the medium of photography in order to raise questions rather than a mere tool of literal describing.
“While images are my passion, photography is my way of experiencing the world and seeking the answers. It’s a never-ending process of learning, a pretext to meet others and find myself in life changing situations. It is…Read More »
Italian photographer Franco Monari has been capturing a peculiar addition to the local landscape over the past two years: Sex / Porn vending machines. These hardcorde DVD machines have been erecting all over the place and Franco Monari caught over 300 of this machines on photo. The machines do not only sell DVD’s, but also vibrators and other sex gadgets.
Franco: “These machines have been developed recently. There are areas in Italy where there aren’t any at all, but there are also areas where they…Read More »
Wedding / Fine Arts photographer Edward Olive has come a long way since the last times we had the honours of featuring the good man on CFYE and Gup Magazine. It seems that his photography finally starts to get the recognition it deserves. A thought that is strengthened by the amount of awards added to his biography since the last time we spoke. I know awards aren’t everything but it does show a level of…Read More »
In the 40´s and 50´s the American soldiers started to hang pictures of pretty girls on the wall. It was one of the ways to encourage themselves during the heavy period of being in a troop. And so, the pin-ups were born, and a standard of beauty with them: sexy, sensual, feminine, but naïve.
So many years later, even with the big changes in our culture, we are still able to find these characteristics in contemporary photographs out there. Almost nothing as provoking as in…Read More »