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HEAVENLY BALLET

NATHAN BENKEMOUN // Nathan was born in Nice and is now based in Paris. As a photographer he is mainly attracted to showing daily life and people´s interaction with their environment through intimate, sometimes absurd or even banal scenes, taken in the street or in open spaces. For this series though, he went up high: […]

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ALL THAT SPARKLES

KENNETH NEDERSKOV PETERSEN // Kenneth is based in Roskilde, Denmark, some 30 km from the capital Copenhagen. Among his many street and architecture photographs are some irresistibly sparkly images of cultural architecture by night, of which we are pleased to show a set. After all, what would the performing arts and fine arts be without […]

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MANDALA

FELIPE MANDARINO LIMA // Felipe is a Brazilian photographer, founding member of the street photography collective Street Avengers, and a digital artist who, when not doing street photography, enjoys portraiture and abstract or art photography. For a book he is planning he creates fascinating photographic mandalas, of which we are pleased to show a set.

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PHOTOMONTEUR

LEANNE STAPLES // Leanne is a licensed New York City tour guide, photographer, artist and writer. She has long been involved in making abstract photography.  She shared a set of photo-montages, or in-camera collages, she made at an exhibition at the MoMA in New York.

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VISIONS OF VENICE

ROGER HEID // Roger is a Swiss painter and photographer living in the Canton of Bern. He has been a member of a photo club for some 40 years, participating in national and international competitions. During the corona pandemic photography became an even more important saving grace. Roger is also a painter, and the photo […]

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HOPPERESQUE

THE SMC_HOPPER PHOTO CHALLENGE // We had a lot of really good submissions to our first-ever Instagram photo challenge, where we asked photographers to share their “Hopperesque” photographs. It was hard to pick just a few favourites, but we managed. Here are links to our favourites, together with some paintings by Edward Hopper that they reminded […]