Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2021 i Lens Magazine

"LIVING A DICTATORSHIP LEADS BY A JUNTA" Orna Naor is a Street Photographer, a lecturer, and one of the main photojournalist activists at the Israeli protests "Siege of Balfour" against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In her special series of documenting the demonstrations, Orna focuses mainly on the social aspect, human rights, and Israeli society conditions. Her street photography is shown in brick and mortar galleries in Israel and abroad, including the "Local Testimony" Photojournalism exhibition and various Street Photography groups over the Net. In some of them, she is an admin. Naor has a unique and creative way of approaching street photography. She focuses on human moments, on emotions, and on creating her own story. Her work was published in various street photography books and magazines, including WePhoto Street,…

In one of the deadliest urban battles since World War II, the war against Islamic State in Mosul took a devastating toll on Iraq’s second-largest city residents. Thousands of civilians endured months of trauma, suffering, and fear, held hostage by the fighting between ISIS militants and Iraqi Security Forces backed by US-led coalition forces. As Iraqi troops pushed forward through the densely populated streets of western Mosul’s ancient quarter in the summer of 2017, many civilians escaped in a state of critical malnutrition after surviving months without enough food and water. Others suffered from old and infected wounds left untreated due to lack of access to medical assistance. With little more than a few makeshift hospital beds set up inside abandoned buildings and only the most basic medical resources, medics…

Often the term "magic" is applied to my photos. And there is. I create my own magical world! As a person who grew up in the usual gray and ugly city near Moscow, I always tried to get into a fairy tale. In those fairy tales that I read in my childhood. My work features hobbits, Moomin trolls, Alice in Wonderland, The Silmarillion, fairy tales by Russian authors like Max Fry and others in the fantasy genre, etc. With age, the perception of fairy tales and the tales themselves changed. With travels to my fairy tales, the national flavor of those countries I visit or read about has been added. For example, in a project with flowing fabrics, I most recently spotted an Asian flavor. There are girls with fabrics…

WOMEN FIGHTERS IN SYRIA UKRAINE: A YOUTH BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE The Kurdish people, known for their independence demands, have particularly distinguished themselves in the fight against Daesh. The capture of Raqqa in 2017, the capital of Daesh, was a symbol of this. At the heart of this struggle, women have always occupied a place. In support of combatants or arms in hand, they have decided to establish themselves as a recourse against the obscurantism of Daesh in order to rebuild, on the ashes of the Caliphate, a peaceful and equal society. In the midst of chaos, the women of peace are on all fronts and are looking to the future. By arms or not, Kurdish women have always taken part in combat. Participating in the care of the wounded…

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Paul Zizka is an international award-winning mountain landscape and adventure photographer based in Banff, Canada. A prolific adventurer, Paul’s journey to capture the "under documented" has taken him to all seven continents, as well as to each of Canada’s provinces and territories. Paul’s images have been featured on countless book covers and various highly regarded publications, including National Geographic, Maclean's, Alpinist, the Huffington Post, The Guardian, Canadian Geographic, Islands, PhotoLife, and explore magazine. Paul has three coffee-table photography books: Summits & Starlight: The Canadian Rockies, The Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered, and Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photography (to be released May 2021). A passionate teacher, he hosts workshops all over the world and a large online community for photographers through his company, OFFBEAT. Paul enjoys life in the mountains with his wife…

For the first time, Touchon Gallery will be presenting a one-of-a-kind art project called 'REFLECTIONS | The Other Side' by an LA-based underwater fine art photographer Alex Sher on the 26th annual LA Art Show at the LA Convention Center on July 29 - August 1, 2021. The project 'REFLECTIONS' presents a new body of work in underwater figure photography and reveals another side of female beauty. 'REFLECTIONS' is a series of underwater photographs showing the beauty of women’s figures through colors, lines, shapes created by reflections on a water surface. It is not quite figurative photography because the heroines in the photographs are not real. And the distortion that water adds creates completely abstract pictures, sometimes reminiscent of the works of Chagall or Picasso, sometimes – a very realistic…

For more than two years, Islamic State militants occupied the oil-rich town of Qayyarah in northern Iraq. In August 2016, Iraqi forces liberated the town, forcing the terror group to retreat. Before they left, IS fighters torched several oil wells in the nearby oil field as well as a sulfur plant, leaving behind a legacy of prolonged health problems and environmental crises. Oil has long been at the center of global conflicts, fuelling violence and instability as foreign powers fight for control over the prized resource. For Islamic State, oil provided a substantial source of income. Qayyarah was, therefore, an important strategic town, and its recapture by Iraqi forces was a significant gain in their advance towards Mosul, the last IS stronghold in Iraq. Before they retreated in August, IS…

Tim Tadder, is an experienced advertising photographer with a niche in sports & fitness productions. Considered as one of the most influential photographers worldwide, as a producer of T.V. commercials and worldwide ad campaigns for the most powerful brands in the world, he relies heavily on building epic storytelling through motion + still photography. The art of sports photography brings a complex set of skills that derives from many years of experience. It’s an enormous pleasure to feature an exclusive interview with Tim Tadder on Lens Magazine and hear about his approach to advertising photography and what led him to be one of the most successful influential photographers in the world. Tim Tadder is an advertising photographer based in southern California, specializing in creating dramatic photographs of people, sports, action,…

The Games of the XXXII Olympiad were historic even before tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the flame in the cauldron with her relay torch to commence them. The concept of bringing athletes from every corner of the earth together for competing in the middle of a global pandemic seemed absurd. Yet they did, and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were an incredible success by most accounts, including mine. In advance of the Games, playbooks were created to guide athletes, support staff, and media - both writers and photographers - through all the protocols that were being set up to minimize the spread of COVID-19. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach pledged 85 percent of athletes would be vaccinated and isolated from the general public for the entirety of their stay…