Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2022 i Lens Magazine

The multi-colored gum method is complicated, long-lasting, and laborious. Moreover, due to unpredictable final effects, it is a kind of mystery that you must discover step by step. This is the significant difference that contrasts the technique of one hundred years ago with modern microprocessors and highly advanced technologies. I have been living and working in London, but I was born in Poland in 1960. I am an art conservator, painter, and fine art photographer. I have been interested in photography since the 1980s. In those days, I learned about alternative photographic techniques, especially the so-called gum bichromate. In the 1990s, I made the first tests in this technique without any special results, and without giving up, I returned to this topic 15 years ago. Currently, I work in this…

EHSAN MORADI My name is Ehsan Moradi, I am 33 years old, and I have lived all my life in the ancient city of Firoozabad in Iran’s Fars province. I have been a professional photographer for a year. So far, I have not participated in any training or educational classes in photography. I am an autodidact. This project and the featured photographs were taken without any previous training. They were created from my own experience over the years. I have loved photography and filming since I was a child, and this interest led me to grow and develop in photography. I learned from Susan Sontag’s book "About Photography" to have a different perspective on photography and to be able to leave impressive photos of myself. So far, I have participated…

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'Their daily lives' The nation of Sri Lanka is undergoing its worst crisis since its independence in 1948. At the time of writing, the country’s financial reserves have been almost depleted, and its citizens suffer as a lack of fuel, food, and power disrupt their daily lives of the people. Protestors line the streets demanding the president’s resignation, and angry mobs have set the houses and offices of government officials on fire. Chaos and anger are seeping into every nook and cranny of the community. To see Sri Lanka in such a state is heartbreaking for me. It is a place I hold dear, one of the first places I started as a travel and documentary photographer, and one I have revisited many times since. I have made countless memories…

I try not to be enslaved to anything. Also, although it may sound paradoxical, as in my paintings, I try to avoid focusing on the obvious and cheap effects, the seductiveness of the obvious. I never think for a long time about the possible outcome because I always react to the moment, to the situation I am in. Again, as in painting, context is important to me; It gives authenticity. Exploring and experiencing the moment “My grandfather Alfred Krupa Sr. MFA (1915-1989) introduced me to the fields of painting and photography even before starting primary school in the mid-1970s, and later it was definitely my father, Mladen Krupa mag. (1949), who also introduced me to film camera shooting. When I say that, I react for a moment, then by that,…

“PHOTOGRAPHY BECAME MY BEST WAY OF EXPRESSING MYSELF. THROUGH THE IMAGES, I TRY TO PRESENT THE WORLD AS REFLECTED IN MY OWN EYES, AND I SEEK TO CAPTURE THE MOMENTS AND PRESENT THEM MOST UNIQUELY AND CREATIVELY WAY I CAN.” “This portrait series is about making close studio portrait images that are different and inspiring aiming express uniqueness, making the viewer stop for a second, dive in, and investigate what he sees. These portraits are primarily rich in color in many terms. Some of them are rich in artistic makeup and styling, which my talented wife mostly is in charge of them. Moreover, some of them are "games" of color and patterns of light and shadows made with a unique technique of light modifier called optical snoot. With the help…

It’s past midnight, and we are in yet another hotel room in a city with no name. One can hear the night traffic on the avenue below, the CNN news on a screamingTV in the next room, competing with the broken air condition from an era gone by, breathing like a lung sick patient getting his last rights. We are both dressed in nothing more than our fantasy, the darkest night and the brightest passion of two lost souls in a city of indifference. We are modern lovers, part plastic and rubber, part naked white flesh, part wild animals. Tied up in a kind of mental bondage. Our bodies are longing for intimacy and exploration. Our minds are set on giving and receiving. We are at that moment, neither man…

Pretty photos of flowers from my garden or recycled gift-wrapping carefully arranged on my office scanner? Look again. One scene, two narratives. A constructed reality. A small act of deceit. 'Special military operation to protect victims of genocide and abuse' or full-scale invasion and occupation of Ukraine? Another constructed reality. This one is more sinister. “Since Russia invaded Ukraine on the morning of 24 February 2022, the Sunflower has become a global symbol of resistance, unity, and hope. Around the world, people are posting, wearing, planting, painting, and buying Sunflowers. These paper flowers symbolize the constructed reality of the invasion of Ukraine and the propaganda of deception used by dictators and despots throughout the world and history to achieve the support or acquiescence of a population. Bucolic scenes of brutal…

KANHA NATIONAL PARK & TIGER RESERVE Kanha National Park is located in Madhya Pradesh or Central India, and it is known for its evergreen forests of Sal Trees. Kanha is divided into four zones that tourists can explore, namely Kisli, Sarhi, Mukki, and Kanha. This forest offers a vast array of biodiversity to capture. It is also known as the Land of the Tigers. But Kanha is one place where we get Barasinghas or Hard Ground Swamp Deer, and it is also the State Animal of Madhya Pradesh. There were only 67 barasinghas left at Kanha when the government took notice. A project was designed to protect them, and today, they thrive at Kanha National Park. The species spotted include Tigers, Leopards, Bisons, Langurs, Black Buck, Barasinghas, Sloth Bears, Wild…

"Those who live to forget their past lives to die of their past" Truskavets was a thriving resort town in independent Ukraine and was an even more thriving resort location in soviet time to which people from the whole corners of the USSR came to rest. At the end of the USSR era, many huge hotels were built to accommodate tens of thousands of visitors. But the Soviet glory waned soon, and all those magnificent concrete buildings were left to stay dilapidated to remind the Ukrainian people that they were once part of the wast communist empire. The buildings stayed there for decades as a symbol of the colonial regime. Then, during the years, when people wished to renovate the buildings or rebuild the area and started to discuss the…