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.

Ibrahim Najjar | Photography

Ibrahim Najjar is an Egyptian architect and photographer who brings an architect’s eye for composition and structure to his wildlife and portrait photography. His travels across Africa have produced striking images of animals in their natural habitats alongside intimate portraits of the people he meets along the way. His photographs have been shown in exhibitions…
Viktoria Rogotneva | Photography

Viktoria Rogotneva is a Russian travel photographer, born in 1969 in what was then Soviet Kirgizia, who trained as a nuclear geophysicist before turning her attention to independent world travel and photography. She has organized her own trips to remote and wild corners of the globe, visiting around 50 countries from Namibia to Bolivia, and…
Stephen Carroll | Photography

Stephen Carroll is an American fine art photographer based in Reston, Virginia, whose cinematic, high-contrast images explore relationships, identity and the quieter corners of the human condition. Largely self-taught, he draws on a background in philosophy and art history along with a deep love of film to build narrative scenes with amateur models rather than…
Fadi Koudsi | Photography

Fadi Koudsi is an Egyptian freelance photographer and photography instructor who began shooting in 2010 and has since worked across architecture, portraiture, products and studio lighting. Influenced by photographers like Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz, he is especially known for black and white images built on a strong sense of light, shadow and mood. His…
Ahmed Thabet | Photography

Ahmed Thabet is an Egyptian photographer based in Kuwait, known for black and white architecture, landscape and mood photography, and a working pediatrician by profession. His photography journey began six years ago when he bought his first camera to photograph his child, and it quickly grew into a serious pursuit. His work has won honors…
Hossam Abbas | Photography

Hossam Abbas is a freelance Egyptian photographer specializing in real estate, architecture, interior design and landscape photography. Known for capturing Egypt’s scenery from fresh, unexpected angles, he brings a strong understanding of natural and artificial light to both his architectural work and his landscape shots. His photography has gained recognition online for its technical precision…
Dmitry Rogozhkin | Photography

Dmitry Rogozhkin is a Russian photographer, born in 1993 in the small town of Malmyzh, who bought his first camera in 2011 while studying architecture and taught himself the craft entirely. Known for surreal, conceptual images, his piece Muse won first place in the Monochrome Awards’ Conceptual category in 2018, and his Cyberpunk Russia series…
Ayman Lotfy | Photography

Ayman Lotfy is an Egyptian conceptual photographer and art director, born in Cairo in 1968, who began his career in fashion design before turning fully to photography in 1998. His fine art images explore human emotion and identity, often staged like scenes from a film and expanded into video art and large installations, including a…
Jordan Matter | Photography

Jordan Matter is an American photographer, born in New York City in 1966, whose grandfather shot for Vogue and whose own turning point came after seeing an exhibit by Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 2009 he launched Dancers Among Us, photographing professional dancers leaping through everyday settings like subway stations and libraries, a project that became a…
Kazuyoshi Nomachi | Photography

Kazuyoshi Nomachi is a Japanese photojournalist, born in 1946 in Kochi Prefecture, whose 1972 trip to the Sahara redirected his career from advertising photography toward documenting traditional cultures around the world. Over more than 40 years he has followed the length of the Nile, photographed the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, and documented spiritual life across…
José Ð Almeida | Photography

Jose de Almeida is a self-taught Portuguese painter and photographer, born in Lisbon in 1965, who has exhibited since 2001 and now builds his painterly vision largely through photography and light. His striking, often surreal images blend painting, drawing and photography into personal, emotionally charged explorations of connection and transcendence. He describes photography as the…
Kiyo Murakami | Photography

Kiyo Murakami is a Japanese photographer based in Tokyo who moved through illustration, design and music before finding her true medium in photo manipulation. Drawing on childhood memories, classic picture books and old paintings, she builds dreamlike, surreal self-portraits that she treats as a personal, almost therapeutic act of self-discovery. A single image can take…