'As an icon of contemporary black and white photography, Alan Schaller’s distinctive visual style works as a universal language understood around the world" - Leica Camera Alan Schaller is a London based photographer who specialises in black and white photography. His work is often abstract and incorporates elements of surrealism, geometry, high contrast and the realities and diversities of human life. Publications who have featured his work include The Guardian, The New York Times T Magazine, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Time Out, The Independent and The Evening Standard. Alan regularly has exhibitions, showing recently at the Saatchi Gallery, The Leica Galleries in London, Boston, Washington D.C., The Edit Space in Milan, and The Leica Galleries in Sydney & Melbourne.
Michael Nguyen is a photo artist and documentary photographer living near Munich, Germany. He takes photographs since 1988. He is an artist and a photographic poet. He focuses on small, ordinary things but through the subjective lens, give them new perspectives, a new soul. Michael Nguyen's photography is the art of showing more than you can see. Making visible - worshipping the invisible, he walks with the third eye of a wanderer through the visual adventure of life. Michael Nguyen is a “publicity shy” (Merkur daily newspaper Munich) photo artist, a photographic poet who moves away from the mainstream, at the same time blurs genres. "Most of the photos could only be taken because Nguyen has a special eye for his surroundings and gives even the mundane a second view." (Süddeutsche Zeitung) In his photography he focuses on architectural details and urban landscapes. In his artworks Michael Nguyen shows a wide range of styles such as photo paintings and experimental photography. Michael Nguyen is member of FREELENS - Professional Association of Photojournalists. At the BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards his artwork "Antimatter" was awarded with Gold. Awards: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/awards Press: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/press Exhibitions: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/exhibitions News: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/news The series “By The Roadside” with its various parts is Michael Nguyen's most important field of work. Photosgraphs from Germany and neighboring countries If we walk with our eyes open, we can see interesting, beautiful, and also ugly things along the road every day. And if we walk with not only with our eyes but also with our heart and mind open, you will discover a world that would otherwise remain closed to us. Sometimes spectacular. Sometimes ordinary but surprisingly miraculous. Michael Nguyen accompanies us on little journeys through places in Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, and elsewhere, to discover what the random walk leads us to. “By the Roadside" consists several parts which are shown in the Portfolio section: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/portfolios In addition to his artistic activities, Michael Nguyen is in Editor-in-chief of the online magazine for photography and art: Tagree. www.tagree.de
Born and lives in Klaipeda, Lithuania Photographic Distinctions: AFIAP (Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique) cMOL** (Master of Light) GPU VIP1 / CROWN1 (Global Photographic Union) In own country the winner of many local contests Second runner-up Lithuania Sony Awards 2017 Winner Lithuanian Sony Awards 2019 PSA Who is Who 2018 - Worldwide 2nd in Black and White / 5th in Color / 15th in Travel International photo-salons winner: FIAP Blue Badges, FIAP/PSA/MOL/GPU/IAAP/IUP and Salon medals and Honorable Mentions Works published in local and international magazines
Photographer and visual dramatist, with a visceral need to unveil and expose my emotions. I in front of and behind the camera. Confessor and penitent. My essence captured in 10 seconds ... desperation, fear, anguish, pain, hate, anger, introspection, loneliness, love, pleasure and always desire. A way to communicate waiting for a response. Maybe cross a glance. Find someone in the darkest and lightest part. The integral nude as a tool, I as a subject, process and work. My body as a tool, the emotional and physical nude as a starting point. A path in which I have come to know that I see in the mirror, the same one that I take the look, the same with which I fight, that I hate and love. Without any artifice. All the images are self-portraits, each of them corresponds to a page in which I express how I feel. All of them explicitly describe a set of circumstances, they are made in different places, some private and others public. Some comfortable and others really uncomfortable. Images stolen, silent so as not to be discovered.
I chose the "Creation" of photography as a way to explore the "beauty" that impressed me, seeking its consummation. A "Lull-Calm" is one of the answers; it is a "fluctuation" in the place where I stay. For me, it is the "Mono no Aware" (Being susceptible to beauty as a uniquely traditional Japanese mind) itself. The concept of "Nagi-Lull" commends that sensibility, but also that phenomenon(Nagi-凪)regarded as an attribute of the moment; an intersection of the temporal and the spatial. Seeking/understanding beauty is one of the attributes of being human, one of our basic instincts.
I have been photographing for six years and most of my works are minimal in nature and I followed graphic art at the beginning of my art journey and then I turned to photography and I grew up in an artistic family. My mother is a painter and I was always by her side when she was working and I saw how she mixed colors and it was interesting to me. I studied graphic art in high school because I wanted to try all kinds of art from painting and drawing and... In my photography, I first started with documentary photography and after that I was able to find my passion, which is nature. During these years, I participated in various festivals and exhibitions and I have various awards.
Michael Nguyen is a photo artist and documentary photographer living near Munich, Germany. He takes photographs since 1988. He is an artist and a photographic poet. He focuses on small, ordinary things but through the subjective lens, give them new perspectives, a new soul. Michael Nguyen's photography is the art of showing more than you can see. Making visible - worshipping the invisible, he walks with the third eye of a wanderer through the visual adventure of life. Michael Nguyen is a “publicity shy” (Merkur daily newspaper Munich) photo artist, a photographic poet who moves away from the mainstream, at the same time blurs genres. "Most of the photos could only be taken because Nguyen has a special eye for his surroundings and gives even the mundane a second view." (Süddeutsche Zeitung) In his photography he focuses on architectural details and urban landscapes. In his artworks Michael Nguyen shows a wide range of styles such as photo paintings and experimental photography. Michael Nguyen is member of FREELENS - Professional Association of Photojournalists. At the BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards his artwork "Antimatter" was awarded with Gold. Awards: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/awards Press: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/press Exhibitions: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/exhibitions News: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/news The series “By The Roadside” with its various parts is Michael Nguyen's most important field of work. Photosgraphs from Germany and neighboring countries If we walk with our eyes open, we can see interesting, beautiful, and also ugly things along the road every day. And if we walk with not only with our eyes but also with our heart and mind open, you will discover a world that would otherwise remain closed to us. Sometimes spectacular. Sometimes ordinary but surprisingly miraculous. Michael Nguyen accompanies us on little journeys through places in Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, and elsewhere, to discover what the random walk leads us to. “By the Roadside" consists several parts which are shown in the Portfolio section: https://nguyensminiaturen.visura.co/portfolios In addition to his artistic activities, Michael Nguyen is in Editor-in-chief of the online magazine for photography and art: Tagree. www.tagree.de
I chose the "Creation" of photography as a way to explore the "beauty" that impressed me, seeking its consummation. A "Lull-Calm" is one of the answers; it is a "fluctuation" in the place where I stay. For me, it is the "Mono no Aware" (Being susceptible to beauty as a uniquely traditional Japanese mind) itself. The concept of "Nagi-Lull" commends that sensibility, but also that phenomenon(Nagi-凪)regarded as an attribute of the moment; an intersection of the temporal and the spatial. Seeking/understanding beauty is one of the attributes of being human, one of our basic instincts.
"Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man." --- Zhuangzi
Eric P. Rhodes (@ericprhodes) is a digital artist and crypto OG whose strong perspective and distinctive approach have contributed a great deal to the web3 culture, including his creation and fostering of the Alt Punks movement and his early involvement in the trash art scene.
Eric’s work is not limited to his own creations. He is deeply involved in the larger art community, sharing his expertise and insights with fellow artists and newcomers. Beyond the digital and artistic spheres, Eric is a thoughtful advocate for mental health and a believer in the therapeutic possibilities of art.