Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2025 i Lens Magazine

Dafna Navarro is the CEO and Founder of Art Market – Global Media Company. Founded in 2013, Art Market is the publisher of two famous international art and photography magazines: Lens Magazine for fine art photography and Art Market Magazine for contemporary fine art. Beyond her many achievements, Navarro is also a curator and an appraiser of art and collectibles. In addition, she serves on the jury panel of international competitions in the contemporary art & photography fields. Navarro is the current Editor-in-Chief and the main creative driving force behind her magazine’s rise and success. With no signs of slowing down, the magazines feature interviews with the most influential figures in the art and photography fields, coverage of international exhibitions and art fairs and all the latest news regarding fine…

”FULL CIRCLE IS MY CENTRAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT, SERVING AS A PERSONAL AND VISUAL EXPLORATION OF CIRCULARITY—NOT ONLY AS A RECURRING ARCHITECTURAL MOTIF, BUT AS A DEEPER METAPHOR FOR HUMAN RHYTHM, CONTINUITY, AND RETURN." In a world saturated with spectacle and color, I choose monochrome—not out of nostalgia, but necessity. Black and white cuts the noise and reveals essential architecture—light, form, contrast, texture. Monochrome is not rejecting color, but inviting deeper observation: shadow, symmetry, structure. For me, it is not absence, but presence—where the invisible starts to speak. Full Circle is my central photographic project, serving as a personal and visual exploration of circularity—not only as a recurring architectural motif, but as a deeper metaphor for human rhythm, continuity, and return. These photographs trace the presence of circles across cities and continents,…

COLLECTION ECHOES OF FRAGILE LIGHT (2024) POSTURES OF THE NAKED SELF (2020) #UNTITLED (2017-2020) POSTURES OF THE NAKED SELF (2020) “I am a fine art photographer working primarily in black-and-white nude and portrait photography. My aesthetic language is deeply influenced by classical sculpture, where form, balance, and light take precedence over the message. At a conceptual level, my work draws inspiration from Carl Gustav Jung’s analytic psychology, particularly the notion of the persona—the tension between the mask we present to the world and the identity that lies beneath. Through the symbolic use of posture, shape, texture, and the interplay of shadows and light, I seek to distill the human figure to its essence. My images are created with minimal elements: a single subject, negative space, and rarely any accessories. The…

“With POST MERIDIEM, I offer a visual exploration of the afternoon — a time of day often overlooked, yet rich in aesthetic potential. This black-and-white series focuses on a specific kind of light: the intense, slanting sunlight that begins to shape the world with uncompromising precision once the sun passes its zenith. At this hour, shadows deepen, volumes become more pronounced, contrasts intensify, and reality seems to redefine itself through a new formal grammar. This project was born from a fascination with that suspended moment — the tipping point toward the end of the day when light takes on the role of an architect. It carves out surfaces, creates deep black planes, and violently juxtaposes emptiness with fullness, shadow with brightness. By choosing black and white, I deliberately stripped away…

”THE WEIGHT OF LIGHT IS AN EXPLORATION OF THE ENDURING POWER OF LUMINESCENCE—ITS PROFOUND CAPACITY TO OFFER RESPITE THROUGH THESE ESSENTIAL VALUES, BOTH TONAL AND EMOTIONAL, IN A WORLD YEARNING FOR ILLUMINATION."- WENDI SCHNEIDER The Weight of Light is a body of work born from the intimate experience of aging and sadness for the world’s diminishing values — its ethical erosion, loss of compassion, and widening division. These shifts in perception, including a progressive blurring of vision, resonate deeply with me. Navigating these realities has reshaped my world, often muting its vibrant hues. This drew my focus back to the foundational language of monochrome, my grainy darkroom work from the early 1980s, and the tonalities of historical processes, such as gum, platinum, and photogravure, that have long inspired me. My…