Alfred Cheney Jonston (1885–1971) began his artistic career as an illustrator. He studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York, working under the direction of his mentor,…
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Anne Brigman (1869-1950) was a member of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous photographs were taken between 1900 and 1920, depicting nude women in naturalistic settings. In 1894,…
The artist and his muse... an inseparable pair in the arts, embodied in painting, sculpture and music by the myth of Pygmalion. A tour of this relationship.…
In the 1920s, Baron Adolphe de Meyer, nicknamed “the Debussy of photography,” worked as a photographer for Condé Nast Publications, where he was commissioned by the cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden…
Purgatory Road takes its title from an actual place where I live during the summer months, a wooded region in rural New York that is divided by an infamous dirt-covered…
Leprosy has been for many centuries, in Ethiopia, a sickness with enormous social implications. The physical consequences of catching such an illness has forced many infected by the disease into…
After the very important decison of the UN , it might be possible for Gaza to have a new glimpse of hope for its future. Seen from the inside…
The idea behind this series was to challenge myself. Photographing a celebrity isn’t always easy, but they are usually people with a strong presence. I wanted to test myself from…
Italy, Piazza Armerina: like one of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, a non-place. A town which, because of its name, most Italians still mistake for a square (that’s what Piazza means).…
"To the desert" it is a series of ten self-portraits on a background of sand. A mental trip to deserted unexplored lands filled with every day images that integrate to…