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.

The Artivists

The ceaseless crusade against injustice • There is no country in the world with such a high incarceration rate as the United States. Many citizens are unjustly imprisoned every day, and in extreme cases, for life. The Dutch photographer, Jan Banning made the project Law & Order about prisons in four different countries, including the United States. Recently, his new book The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case was published, in which he examines a particular case of extreme injustice.

Post Entropia

There’s no time, not anymore

Photography: Fact And/Or Fiction? • Much of the musing on photography is based on the origins of the medium, which are founded on realism, rendering photography (at least pre-digital) as fictionally incompetent. There are naturally those that disagree. In this short essay, I conclude that photography, by its very nature, exists on a continuum between fiction and non-fiction. Most photographs are neither and are both. As with all continua, by definition, an infinitesimal number of data points relative to the total universe exist at either extreme or precisely at the midpoint. Most exist somewhere in between, falling on one side or the other of the midpoint. I believe photography and all photographs fit this same distribution between fiction and non-fiction.

Light in Darkness • We, humans, yearn for light, physical as well as spiritual. And in our time of turmoil and aggression, we long for a political brightness as well, free from destruction and suffering. In our exhibition, Light in Darkness, different photographers shine their photographic light on the dark world as solace and an antidote for insecurities during these dire times.

Losing Our Minds

I want to talk to someone – how

#Photo Books

Aftermaths of climate disasters • Standing in front of a door in Rio Branco, Brazil is a man called João Pereira de Araújo. He is submerged up to his neck, his expression a curious mixture of surrender to fate and unfathomable sorrow. A woman called Jenni Bruce stands powerful, but heavily affected in the middle of the skeleton of her burned house in Upper Brogo, Australia. The iconic photographs were made by South African photographer Gideon Mendel, who combines documentary photography, visual art and activism in his ongoing commitment to sociopolitical and environmental topics.

Just Like Humans

The Enigmatic Fringe of Existence

Testimonies of covered cruelties • His pictures are artistic testimonies of the past; of the cruel past that earth should not cover. The blurry and distorted landscapes and the sharp and detailed records of victims’ clothes unearthed 30 years after the Rwanda genocide must keep the spectator alert about the barbarous violence. Visual artist Barry Salzman uses different artistic approaches to address the trauma of modern-day holocausts.

A Moon of Nickel and Ice

Destroy; Rebuild

Ferry Tales

Split-second images of Japan’s dark side • Japan is a country of the hard-working class and produces high-tech industrial products. This glossy show window hides individual tensions and obscure cultural habits. French photographer Nicolas Boyer used a combination of photojournalism and staged photography to show his interpretation of Japan in his book Giri Giri. “Even though I work mainly as a...