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.

Human life on earth

Street children and Broken families • He became famous for his book, Children of Bombay, which he published in 1994. For Dario Mitidieri, an Italian photographer residing in London, this project was a breakthrough in his long career. It led to new chances for the future of his concerned photojournalistic work. Recently, Mitidieri gained international recognition for his very emotive project, Lost Family Portraits, a project about broken families of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

Fugue State Revisited

Can photography change the world? • The conversation on documentary photography often comes with leitmotifs as “giving voice”, “raising awareness”, and “making a change”, which are unquestionably honourable aims, but with minimal effects, if the act is limited to freezing the “decisive moment”, suggesting that producing images is the summit of the photographic event. Instead, it is our engagement with pictures through discussion, consumption, and reaction, which defines the power of photography to fuelling change. This research focuses on the participatory photography potential to set the environment for taking collective action; starting from dismantling the idea of single authorship and leading to the definition of photography as the democratic tool for excellence.

Black Waves

#Photo Books

Lens Based Art • Photography is the art of our time. Photos come into being by the lens that captures the light of the world. In this exhibition, creative photographers show their stories and visions with photography as contemporary lens-based art.

Emotional perceptions of the natural world • None of Chloe Sells’ photographic artworks are simply rectangular or in defined shape. They all have odd shapes, which in a way refers to the emotional character of our perception of reality. Her photo works and nature shots with superimposed colours and shapes, have the physical aspect of nature as the central theme. Born between the mountains of Colorado and partly living in Botswana, Sells has a deep connection to the natural world; a connection which she expresses through her elaborate process in her analogue darkroom. Her exhibition holds in Galerie Miranda in Paris.

Image Eaters

Personal notes of global cities • Most of the world’s population live in cities, but we are hardly aware of the impact of how the cities are structured and which space, physical and mental, the inhabitants can create to live in. In his photographic sketches, called Diaries, of cities around the world, German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski, shows the facade of the cities as metaphors for our society. In his book No Buddha in Suburbia, he captured the chaotic development of Mumbai, the largest city in India, where capitalism, feudalism and the caste system created an unequaled labyrinth of middle-class dwellers in high skyscrapers and pariah’s huts with corrugated iron roofs.

Cut, cut, cut, heal, heal, heal

The hidden world of production • The book Workforce by the Italian photographer Michele Borzoni deals with the consequences of the globalised economy, the technological revolution and increasing migration, which enormously pressured local producers in Europe. In a documentary, equidistant style, Borzoni photographed the current labour landscape in Italy as a case study for many other European...