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.

Alternative Process

Spiritual photosynthesis • In its most basic form, photography is based on light and a sensitive layer, without even the need for a camera. This primordial process resembles photosynthesis in plants, which creates oxygen with light. Svetlana Talanova returns to the natural phenomenon of shaping images by making colourful, abstract, and figurative photograms. Her work reveals the interconnectivity between humans and nature and the spirituality in the slowness of the analogue process.

Repurposed/Recycled/Re-imagined

Journey

What remains beyond

Afternative Process Highlights of Artdoc Exhibition

Two worlds

Beyond Blue

Daily life poetry • The work of Marguerite Bornhauser consists of many series, all made using both analogue and digital means. She uses different alternative processes like photograms, printing on silk and plexiglass, painting on glass, and mixing analogue with the digital workflow. “I am hooked on the analogue. I like the sensibility of the analogue material, which I don't find in the digital.”

A Trinity of Metals

Explorations in Blue

Photo Books

The murmur of the wind

Limbo

Alchemy of light, silver, and emotion • Old wooden cameras are big and cumbersome and must be towed on heavy tripods. The cameras Ian Ruhter uses are even bigger and more cumbersome. He built an extraordinary camera truck and even turned a house into a camera annex dark room. The giant ambrotype and tintype plates have unsurpassed magic, but that is not the main asset of his work. The images, unique as paintings, tell intimate stories of his passionate response to nature and the different sides of the American dream. “I am not looking for gold, but the riches are within my heart and journey.”

Art and Nature, the connections

Awakening In The World

Layers of expression • Photographs can get a second life, embedded in an artistic context, away from their original destination, but still intrinsically connected to it. Gaëlle Cueff uses various techniques like paintings, collages, and layering of images, all mixed with original photographs, mostly found but also taken by herself. “I don't consider myself a photographer. The photographs are the starting point for my work, after which I mix them with other techniques and materials. What interests me is adding my experience and feelings to it.”

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