Conceptual Photography
This tag marks photography built around a planned idea rather than a documentary moment, images staged, composed, or manipulated to express a concept instead of simply recording what was in front of the camera. It often involves careful setup, from lighting to props to post processing, since the photographer is constructing a scene rather than just capturing one. Use this tag to find photography that leans closer to fine art than to straightforward documentation, where the idea behind the shot is often as important as the shot itself.
Liu Bolin
Spot Liu Bolin if you can. Follow the Beijing artist from a demolished studio to photographs where he vanishes into walls, flags and supermarket shelves.
Erik Johansson
Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and visual artist born in 1985, now based in Prague, known for surreal scenes built from many blended photographs that look strangely believable. He grew…
Misha Gordin
Misha Gordin is a Latvian-American conceptual photographer born in Riga in 1946, who left a background in aviation to work in film special effects before turning to photography. He created his…
Bill Gekas
Bill Gekas is a self-taught fine art portrait photographer from Melbourne, Australia, who has been working since the mid 1990s. He is best known for staged, painterly photographs of his daughter,…
Markus Reugels
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…
Victoria Ivanova
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…
Dmitry Rogozhkin
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.…
José Ð Almeida
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.…
Kiyo Murakami
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…
Duy Tang
Duy Tang is a photographer who has built a niche around the delicate art of water droplet photography, shooting with a Nikon D7000 to turn tiny liquid forms into striking, sculptural…
Marina Cano
Marina Cano is a Spanish wildlife photographer from Santander whose lifelong fascination with animals began near the Cabarceno Wildlife Park and later took her across Africa. Trained originally in music, she…
Monika Jezusek
Monika Jezusek is a Polish staged-photography artist born in 1971 in Serock, who trained as a painter at the University of Silesia before turning fully to photography once digital tools opened…
