Photography

Photography captures a real moment in time, but the best photographers shape that moment through choices about light, framing, timing, and composition just as deliberate as any painter’s. This section gathers photographers working across styles, portrait, landscape, conceptual, and fine art photography, each using a camera as their main creative tool. What separates strong photography from a simple snapshot is intention, knowing what to include, what to leave out, and when exactly to press the shutter. Explore this section to see photographers pushing the medium well past documentation and into genuine art making.

Markus Reugels | Photography

Markus Reugels is a German photographer from Marktsteinach, born in 1978, who works as a professional parquet layer and picked up a camera after his son was born. What began as family snapshots grew into a passion for macro and high speed liquid photography, freezing drops of colored liquid in motion to create unpredictable, almost…
Ahmed Elmasry | Photography

Ahmed Elmasry is an Egyptian photographer known for bold, direct images that move between portraits and street photography. His work captures the rhythm of Cairo, its markets, alleys and sudden gestures, alongside quieter landscape scenes shaped by warm tones and open space. Together, his photographs form a visual diary of modern Egyptian daily life.
Hasan Baglar | Photography

Photographer Hasan Baglar captured a playful moment when two praying mantises raised their limbs in perfect sync, looking almost like they were dancing. The pose is really a natural fear response to his presence, but the timing made for a photo too funny and charming to miss.
Kinan Echtay | Photography

Kinan Echtay is a Syrian photographer known for calm, sharp nature photography, especially crisp, detailed shots of birds in motion. He travels widely to capture scenes shaped by patience, waiting for the right moment rather than forcing it, giving his images a quiet, almost poetic feel.
Amazing Fountain Sprays Water to Look Like a Boat | Photography

Valencia’s Water Boat Fountain, known locally as Fuente del Barco de Agua, uses jets of water sprayed from a simple metal frame to form the shape of a sailing boat, sail and all. Built from aluminum, marble and granite at Playa de la Malvarrosa, it sits in a small round basin so the “boat” appears…
Victoria Ivanova | Photography

Victoria Ivanova is a Russian photographer based in Moscow who also holds a PhD in Economics and works as a university lecturer, approaching photography as what she calls a “constructor” rather than a “hunter” of images. Her award winning Pear Project, rooted in a childhood habit of drawing faces on fruit, won the Grand Prix…
Sukron Ma’mun | Photography

Sukron Ma’mun, known online as Ipoenk Graphic, is a self taught photographer from a village in Cirebon, Indonesia, who captures the daily rhythms and quiet beauty of village life around him. Sharing his work mainly through Facebook and online galleries, his photography reflects his belief in simple kindness, expressed in the Indonesian saying that friends…
Jord Hammond | Photography

Jord Hammond is a travel photographer from Dover, UK, who moved to China to teach English and began photographing his travels for friends and family before building a large following online. Now a full time photographer working with brands like Canon and DJI, he has traveled to more than 40 countries but still calls China…
Denis Dailleux | Photography

Denis Dailleux is a French photographer born in Angers in 1958 who now lives in Cairo, drawn there by what he describes as a genuine love for the city’s mood, light and people. Working in both black and white and color, he builds an alternative to touristic cliché through patient, deeply personal portraits, photographing both…
Anton Mostovenko | Photography

Anton Mostovenko is a wildlife photographer from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, known for the patience it takes to get close to his subjects, often rising before dawn and lying still for long stretches to photograph foxes, stilts and other animals undisturbed. He shoots with a Nikon D500 and a Tamron telephoto lens, favoring stills over video for…
Samir Belhamra | Photography

Samir Belhamra is a digital artist based in the south of France who started out as a kid drawing and doing graffiti in a modest neighborhood with little scenery to inspire him. He moved into photography and then Photoshop, eventually building his own computer graphics business with a style that sits between reality and imagination.…
Yann Arthus-Bertrand | Photography

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer and filmmaker, born in 1946, whose lifelong love of nature led him from running a wildlife reserve to studying lions in Kenya before he turned to aerial photography. He founded the first aerial photography agency in 1991 and published Earth From Above, which sold more than three million copies…