WE ARE ONE YEAR YOUNG TODAY!
One year ago today we published our first feature. It was the second lock-down in Austria, when I dreamed up this project. Having always loved all the arts and photography, I wanted to create a platform that would provide a way to feature the work of arts photographers and creators of lens-based art. The idea of this magazine came to my mind in the shower — where else?
Putting this project into action is a labour of love, on which I spend many hours of the day, or, more often, night. It is the interaction with like-minded photographers, the little notes of appreciation, and the result that, for me, make it all worthwhile. Over the first year we published 100 full web magazine features and countless additional theme day features in our Instagram gallery, highlighting the work of emerging and well established photo artists.
And here we are, here I am, one year later, going strong. I look back at what we have published over the year, and it makes me happy to see the beauty of it. And so, it reaffirms my motivation to keep at it. I am grateful for the advice from our co-editor Mel and our graphic design consultant Maya (find them in the About section)
So go ahead, don´t be shy: if it is about the arts or considered photo art, submit your work, I guarantee that while not everything we get is published, every submission receives due consideration. Cheers to the love of art!
Karin, Founder and Editor
And here is a round-up of the first 100 delectable features.
Palazzo Circus, Vienna © KARIN SVADLENAK-GOMEZ Lodhi Art Distric, New Delhi © LUIS GOMEZ ECHEVERRI Chicxulub exhibition at White Cube © LI MULLEN London Comic Con ©tris (@colourbricks) Morris Dancers ©DAVID GILBERT WRIGHT Keeping the Balance ©JOHANNA VON OLDERSHAUSEN Cest is D´Best Zagreb ©MARY CRNKOVIC PILAS The Classical Spectacular ©DANNY JACKSON Theyyam ritual in Kerala ©CLAUDIA ORSETTI Christine Walsh pipping ©SHAWN BYRON DANKER Sculpor´s workshop in Carrara ©SIMONE BATINI ARoS Aarhus Art Museum ©CASPER DAM The Leeds Carnival ©JASON SHIPLEY Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan ©MELANIE MEGGS Kalika Devi statue being painted ©MONOJIT MONDAL Artist portraits ©SUZANNE PHOENIX The general cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia ©ULLI CLAURE IBARRA Ballet students in Kibera ©ANWAR SADAT Spectacular Christmas photo-art ©ASSIA STARKE Double-exposure over Uruguayan art ©ALICIA HABER Circus magic in Finland: Sirkus ©SIMO VÄISÄNEN Bryn Cohn and Artists at Kaatsbaan in New York ©KAREN GHOSTLAW The Subways in concert ©GREIG CLIFFORD Tattoo artist Michal Dudek (Dudi Ink) ©CALLIE EH Lee Mack at the Hammersmith Apollo ©STEVE BEST “Le Cirque De Charles La Tannes” in Moscow ©OLEG KOLIMBET 2019 Nestroy Prize award at the Theater and der Wien in Vienna ©MICHAEL SEIRER Elder the modern clown ©GABRIELE TARTONI Daytona Bike Festival ©FEDERICO QUINTANA The Duesseldorf Kunstapalast ©SARAH LUHSE The Zeus Open Balkan Cup ©MARILENA FILAITI The Brianza Juggling Convention in Imbersago ©GIADA CALAMIDA Katsuna, geiko and jikata ©ROBERT VAN KOESVELD The painter Omar Logang in Nice, France ©ANNETTE LANG Street performers in Lima, Peru © ARTURO CAÑEDO Abstract street photography ©JANE GISMONDI The joy of music in New York © BILL LACEY Jaraš Mališeūski playing the traditional kolavaja lira ©PAVIEŁ HANČAR Mind-bending photo art “Culturas” ©TONY REMARTINEZ Murals on the Taggerwerk by Nils Westergard and Bernd/Müsli ©BERND GROSSECK Hommage to the English painter William Turner ©ENZO CRISPINO Flamenco Sketches ©ROBERT SHERMAN Still from the short film “Seeped” ©POOJA DUA “Promise of Meeting” ©ANTONIS GIAKOUMAKIS “KEEP FIGHTING”. Street art from the social protests in Chile © RUBER OSORIA From the project “I am who I am”, Saint Petersburg ©DMITRY TRUSOV Cuban National Ballet backstage ©PEDRO VIDAL Experimental photography ©AMY J. MONTICO “Kyores” at the Old Goris Historical and Cultural Reserve-Museum ©RAZMIK ZACKARYAN Winter fields ©BRIGITTE AEBERHARD “Mannequins” in Stockholm, Sweden © LAINE MULLALLY Sabucedo, the Wrestlers, and the Horses, Galicia, Spain ©FERNANDO VISCASILLAS Maria Linares Freire at the Stockwell graffiti jam in April 2021, WOM collective © tris_COVER Santorini © ANNIE PLASSE The “Real Aussie” Posters by Peter Drew ©CHER MIN TEO Porcelain art by the Dutch artist Harmke Zwep ©HANS VERDUIN Paired poetric images © Natassa Kouri “Genesis” ©DANIEL AGRA Nature art ©DANIELA PEREIRA Degas revisited ©CHERYL NANCARROW The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ©JUN NGUYEN-HATSUSHIBA “Outburst”, from a series by Jasmin Javon ©JASMIN JAVON Gerardo and rumberos © MISH AMINOFF “Invasion of the Pines” on Fire Island, NY ©ROBERT SHERMAN Venice ©ROGER HEID Drag art down under ©ROBERT KNAPMAN History is Always Different ©LEANNE STAPLES Mandala ©FELIPE MANDARINO LIMA All that sparkles, art venues in Denmark ©KENNETH NEDERSKOV PETERSEN Sarah Kora Dayanova dancing on the roof of the Paris Opera ©NATHAN BENKEMOUN Floating Garden ©MAJA STRGAR KURECIC Hand-coloured infrared photographs ©ELIZABETH HOLMES Digital photo art ©TINA COSMAI Classical Indian dance ©RAJ LAXMI SINGH National Museum of Archaeology in Athens ©LIA MAGEIRA One Night With Elvis, Bristol, UK Elvis Festival ©SHELBY ALEXANDER “The Crown Virus – Netflix Series 5” ©VALERIA CAMMARERI Shadows in the Past ©LENA SIOPI “Cross-the-world” from the project Beyond Certain © PETRA JAENICKE Hobsons Bay Coastguard in Melbourne, Photo ©️ADAM SINCLAIR Window to the past ©PAMELA HANLAN Miao Li painting en plain air in Zug, Switzerland Photo ©CALLIE EH Urban Layers ©PHIL CREAN One of the “wild things” at the body art festival in Queensland ©CHERYL NANCARROW From the series In the Garden at Chislehurst ©LAURIE FREITAG Artwork by Barbara Bloom at Art Basel ©ANDY PIEREN Poetic visual project “I dreamed I was Kafka” ©SOFIA DALAMAGKA Architectural patterns inside the MKM in Duisburg, Germany ©STEFAN TILBURGS From the project “Human Connection” ©NATALIA MUNOZ Tony Oursler at the exhibition “HYPNOSIS” © CHARLIE WAFFEN “European Masterpieces” at the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art ©MELANIE MEGGS “Mirrorness” ©VICTOR SKURAT Ethereal photo art ©TINA STENFORD Cuban musicians ©GEORG REITER Self portraiture ©ABBIE BRIGGS “Star Trek-ism”, from her series Un proche lointain ©MARTINE LEMARCHAND “Chromatic Underground” ©JEAN-PIERRE BAUD “Universal Arrangements” ©ALEX RUTHERFORD Artisan potters of Kumortuli, Kolkata ©SAIBAL SEN “World of Fantasy” ©KARIN BAUER