This year, LensCulture launched the inaugural Artwork Photography Awards; a competition that attracted submissions from photographers from 129 completely different international locations, throughout six continents. I see photography as a device identical to portray, sculpture or other artistic manifestation that serves an artist with a view to specific himself. It is a true honor and represents one other important growth in my photography profession. In the Spring of 2006, six American photographers journeyed to Ghana to document that country on the eve of its fiftieth anniversary of independence.

Born in 1981, French photographer Benjamin Deroche studied literature before changing into a photographer – and its mark can maybe nonetheless be seen in his photographs’ capacity to dereal actuality” as critic Françoise Paviot places it. In his current collection Surnature and Baltica, for instance, he creates installations inside the panorama, contrasting the natural world along with his constructed interventions.

I’ve an immense respect for the masters of the previous, in all the things that has to do with artwork, images, architecture, music and literature and I rely on their wisdom many instances in case of doubt. Nancy Breslin’s photography reveals that you don’t need a excessive-tech digital camera to make attention-grabbing, thought-upsetting photographs.

In Panoramas, for instance, he merges three vertical images to create a digital CinemaScope of flowers and gardens which are real and not so real at the similar time. Images are judged on the basis of artistic merit, originality, topic and style. However his pristine black-and-white photographs of BDSM scenes, and the horny, sinewy strangers he met on the Mineshaft sex club, shocked conservative audiences.

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