Artdoc Photography Magazine

Artdoc is an international digital magazine dedicated to the world of photography. The name Artdoc refers to our vision of art photography and documentary photography. The two fields have merged, and contemporary photography is a blend of both. Artdoc brings photography as the visual storytelling medium of our time. Artdoc Photography Magazine publishes engaging and high-quality portfolios of established and emerging photographers. Moreover, Artdoc publishes critical essays about the theory of photography.

Visible cities of signs

In search of the alter ego of Rome • Most visitors know how Rome looks like by daytime, full of the international tourists’ hustle and bustle and foggy by dense traffic. It is a city that always seems restless and crowded, but not at night. Alessio Pellicoro took his camera and explored Rome in the dark hours’ serene atmosphere, discovering the hidden souls of the ancient city. “The night is like a shelter in which the city can find peace, running away from the human whims that exhaust its beauty.”

When I killed your tulips

Truth in photography • Photography was originally considered a way to objectively represent reality, completely untouched by the photographer’s perspective. However, photographers manipulate their pictures in various ways, from choosing what to shoot to altering the resulting image through computer digitalization. The manipulation inherent to photography brings to light questions about the nature of truth. All art forms manipulate reality in order to reveal truths not apparent to the uncritical eye.

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Empty Streets • As many countries are still struggling with the last episode of the corona pandemic, imposing lockdowns and curfews, photographers have free space to investigate the empty streets of their cities and towns. In the exhibition Empty Streets, 25 photographers show the enigma of the modern times in which we are utterly mobile but now forcedly stranded in time.

The struggle for Hong Kong’s identity • American documentary photographer Todd Darling photographed Hongkongers’ now historical struggle against the Chinese pressure to introduce an authoritarian centralized government. Portrait of Hong Kong is a collaborative portrait project that memorializes Hongkongers struggle for an identity while highlighting the social issues that face the city’s inhabitants during the popular antigovernment movement. Individually the portraits and text may tell a simple story about daily life or address larger issues such as universal suffrage or inequality. Still, as a whole, they tell a nuanced story about Hong Kong and her people.

The metropolis of Hong Kong

Arid mountains as personal perceptions • Red and brown mountains, greenish lakes and icy white snow-caps; the images of Italian photographer Sofia Podestá show wide and arid landscapes in remote areas of the world, from the very south of Chile to the very north of Iceland. Does she want to show us the landscapes itself, or is there another dimension behind the vast and uninhabited spaces? Walking along the great Prospect shows both nature and our perception of nature.

Forgotten buildings along the countrysides • Travel down any backroad in America, especially in the older states along the eastern seaboard, and, if you look closely, you will see buildings of the type photographed by Steve Gross and Susan Daley -- rough hewn roadside relics, the patinated survivors of an earlier commercial era. Over the past twenty years, Gross and Daley have directed their keen eyes toward this type of American vernacular architecture, one that tends to go unnoticed and is rarely studied in depth. Even with bold signage, these rustic, unpeopled structures often blend into their environments, sometimes literally becoming engulfed by the surrounding vegetation as the years pass.

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