"The portrait series was created with no clear intention in mind. It was possibly meant to serve as a way to take a different look at people around me and discover something new. One could find subtle nuances in the facial expressions of those people and take a guess what might have caused them. Human curiosity is the sole motive that leads us to discover undiscovered and unexpected. In those spontaneous moments that these snapshots were taken there is plenty of it..." - Bogdan Seredyak

"I (Alyssa Noches) have, and always will be, riveted and compelled by the tactile sense of individual feeling and the passion and sadness of human emotion.  We not only exist, but seem to leave behind a glimmer of ephemeral dust, a transient trail, that only a camera’s quick snap can freeze. The slightest brush of a hand, or hair falling across a cheek, maybe the feeling of sun on one’s skin or the loss of something dear. The careful release of a shutter can also combine or separate what is real, imagined or what could have been.  "

All of these photos were taken during a visit to a friend's house in Glenwood Springs. The photos tell bits of these stories themselves. And that's the whole point.

I initially snapped her from across side alley as she fed the birds, and then went to talk to her. Her creatures in the middle of their feed, disturbed took flight in fear at a stranger. Soon returning to the business at hand once they’d seen I posed no threat.

In CFYE columns you will meet the thoughts of interesting and inspiring people from our network. This time we have Pagani from Sao Paulo, Brazil. A photographer who also likes to make music and knows how to elevate his intense work and subjects to and comfortable level for us to digest.

In CFYE columns you will meet the thoughts of interesting and inspiring people from our network. This time we have Anthony Cronin. Read more about the Anthony in his CFYE SPAM interview right here.

In CFYE columns you will meet the thoughts of interesting and inspiring people from our network. This time we have Damien Sans from France. A sincere photographer who also runs his own blog anatomic city.

We at CFYE asked ourselves: What the f* is a professional anyway? Especially in creative lines of work, what defines someone's level of competence? We didn't go to art school so we can't lay it out to you in big expensive words, but for example: Streetart doesn't know any professionals, nor amateurs. There are people that make their living with it, there are kids that do it because they don't have anything else to do. It knows no limits or boundaries and is, in a way, ultimate creative freedom.

What defines art, or being an artist? We know what we like when we see it, so we feature any artist that comes in our scope. But somehow, in some lines of creative work that wakes up the jealousy and envy in a few 'professionals'. Especially (but certainly not only) photographers seem to have a hand in this. We have our opinions about why that is, but instead of rambling about it ourselves we present you a more interesting piece of thought, Edward Olive's: