Author: Andrew Mason

Bharat Patel is a travel and social documentary photographer. Over the last several years he has earned a reputation for capturing stories of people and documenting their lives, from cultural rituals of the tribes of Omo Valley to the nomads and transgenders of India. Bharat works on different projects at the same time and regularly holds exhibitions. He has earned numerous awards for his photography and many of his prints are on the walls of private collectors. His striking images in B&W are particularly popular.

I am a self-taught photographer and filmmaker with formal education in Construction and Business management. My passion, however, is what drove me to pursue this path with my camera. My work conveys the disparity between middle and lower-class societies.

The juxtaposition between poverty and wealth – the blissful embrace of making do with what one possesses. Predominantly setting the tone that Ghana; being a hard place for many doesn’t take away the innate joy from the people nor discrediting its invigorating scenery

Gianluca Mortarotti is an Italian self-taught photographer based in London, UK.

The roots of his interest in photography lie in his father’s work. Developing films in the darkroom at a very young age and wedding photography work with him introduced Gianluca to the world of photography.

After his architecture and building engineering studies, the photographer started focusing on life in cities by capturing candid moments, exploring urban contrasts, and the oddity of human connections.

With his work, he attempts to speak through images about contemporary social issues and comment on social reality without turning down the intriguing presentation of street scenes or the impressive appearance of images.

“Birds flying high, you know how I feel…” – Nina Simone

In Portugal, on Sundays at around 12PM, there’s a TV channel that shows an episode of one of the many Sir David Attenborough’s shows. This has been a recurring occurrence for the past 20-25 years without fail. Ever since I was a child I remember waiting eagerly for those 45 minutes a week, more religiously than if I had ever gone to church. I remember being fascinated by the far and remote places, landscapes, animals, and plants, of things that I would never see, but more than anything I remember feeling awed by the aerial shots. Towering over enormous trees and vast forests, making them look so small and defenseless, as we so often forget they are. Those aerial views and shots gave, and still give, me shivers.

I have been photographing people and places since my days at Mass Art Institute in Boston, MA. In my last few years, my work has centred on the appreciating art of male nudes, enriching its beauty and perfection with my photography. Through the lens I see the innocence and vulnerability of the naked body; my work, with suggestive use of light and shadows, celebrates the humanity and strength of the naked form.

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Neville is interested mainly in architectural, abstract and urban landscape photography. He strives for minimalism in his approach, and always searches for different views of the ordinary by exploring line, colour, shape, texture, tone and pattern, looking for interpretation rather than representation.
‘House of Shadows II’ explores the sun moving across the sky throwing ever changing shadows through the windows onto the surfaces and objects within his house. This project is not looking to create documentary images but to explore these ever changing shadows by recording shapes, lines, patterns, tones and textures etc. It uses both Polaroid and Digital technology to find ways of breaking the images down and combining them to produce a new interpretation.

Paul Nezandonyi presents a series of images from his ongoing project ‘Taxi!’. A street photography project on London’s iconic Hackney carriage, its cabbies, and its passengers.

With their illuminated orange ‘TAXI’ signs, the Capital’s lustrous black cabs are famous worldwide and are as distinctive as red post boxes and double-decker buses. However, in recent years, they have been under threat due to the rise of taxi apps. Then, in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic hit with lockdown restrictions and halted tourism, further compounding the struggles of cabbies. Today, demand for rides has dramatically reduced, and most cabbies find it difficult to make a living.

I’ve been taking photographs for most of my life! I am a passionate lover of life in all its many forms and when I look through the lens and connect with a subject I am connecting to life in all its random glory and infinite beauty.
The specific photos I have chosen to showcase represent the ‘Moments of Connection” I have felt most deeply. Moments that quietly take your breath away. Each of these images made me stand still in wonder and my hope is that you will pause with a sense of that moment of connection.

I shot this series in Deria, the fascinating oldest “souk” of Dubai. I hope to give you an immersive experience, feeling the heat and smelling the spices, walking on a thin line between the traditions and contradictions of modern life.

I’m passionate about film photography as I believe it’s the perfect way to capture timeless emotions: sometimes we should slow down and let the magic happen!

Should you wish to get in touch or buy a print, please contact me.

https://www.matteoperazzo.com/

Brian Boyce

Brian Boyce is a photographer originally from Scotland, now living in Northampton. His work focuses on geometry, shapes, moments and the interplay of the human in the scene with its surroundings. He shoots predominantly street, documentary and portrait.

His work has been featured in several magazines and exhibitions nationally and internationally. Most recently, in Fujifilm House of Photography Gallery in Covent Garden as part of the UPC Street Assignments Project which he helped run; and which brought together more than 300 photographers from around the world in a year-long series of projects which culminated in an exhibition and book.