The Pictorial List is a global online magazine exploring the beauty and complexity of all things photography. FOUNDATIONS OF PRACTICE ART EXHIBITION February 07 to April 04 Foundations of Practice marks the beginning of The Pictorial List's journey - an opening not only of our new artspace, but of dialogue into the practice of the artist. SILVER AND BREATH Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. Latest features PICTORIAL STORY DELTA DUSK John Agather weaves image and text into a single current, tracing how music, memory, and daily life continue to move through the Mississippi Delta. PICTORIAL STORY SILENT BEAUTY Tamara Quadrelli photographs the world by slowing down inside it. There is no rush to explain what we are seeing. The pleasure comes from staying with it. 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PICTORIAL STORY SILVER AND BREATH Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. March 22, 2026 PICTORIAL STORY PHOTOGRAPHY Eva Christina Nielsen STORY Karen Ghostlaw SHARE Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Portrait photography begins with a paradox. The camera promises to reveal a person, yet every portrait is shaped by the eye that makes it. Between the moment the shutter opens and the moment we encounter the photograph, something subtle occurs. It is a negotiation between presence and perception, between the person who stands before the lens and the one who decides when the moment is right to see. Throughout the history of photography, portraiture has been less about appearance than about attention. The photographer studies the fleeting gestures of being human. A slight shift of breath, the hesitation of a gaze, the delicate architecture of expression that reveals more than words ever could. A portrait is not simply taken. It is allowed. Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. Her portraits unfold gradually, asking something rare of the viewer. Patience, presence, and a willingness to truly see. Portrait photography has always circled a question both simple and impossible. What does it mean to truly see another person? From the earliest daguerreotypes the camera promised truth. Even then it was shaped, arranged, and interpreted. A portrait is never just a record. It is a meeting. It is a negotiation between the one who stands before the lens and the one who stands behind it, and later between the image and the viewer. Throughout the history of photography, some artists have used portraiture as a form of confrontation. Diane Arbus turned her camera toward the edges of society and asked us to sit with discomfort. Richard Avedon removed background and context so completely that human presence appeared to vibrate against an empty white field. Irving Penn pressed his subjects into corners, allowing restraint to become monumental. Sally Mann brought intimacy into the frame with a tenderness that feels almost sacred. August Sander attempted to map an entire society through faces, believing that if he photographed enough people, he might describe the character of an era. Each of them wrestled with the same question. Does a portrait describe the subject, or does it reveal the photographer? It is within this long and searching lineage that Eva Christina Nielsen quietly takes her place. Born in 1968 in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she grew up and later trained in medicine, Eva came to photography through observation long before she considered it an artistic pursuit. Her first camera was a Kodak Instamatic. She remembers the scent of the camera, the ritual of waiting, and the quiet thrill of opening the envelope from the laboratory to discover what had been preserved. Even then she understood that documentation was never casual. It was an act of care. Her training in medicine sharpened her gaze. Medicine teaches careful observation, to recognize the smallest shifts in skin, tension, and breath. It teaches how to read what is not being spoken. Where medicine searches for diagnosis, however, her portraiture searches for presence. That distinction changes everything. That difference becomes visible in the way she approaches those she photographs. There is patience in her framing and a willingness to allow silence before pressing the shutter. She waits not only for expression but for something quieter and more revealing. When asked what makes her lower the camera rather than press the shutter, Eva describes a subtle shift in awareness. “Yes, sometimes I wait for the subject to be fully present, but more often I wait for the moment when the subject disconnects from me and my presence and wanders off in their thoughts, when I become an observer rather than a director.” The resulting portraits feel neither extracted nor staged. They feel agreed upon, as though the subject has chosen to be present and to be seen in that particular light. Working in black and white, she removes distraction deliberately. There is no color to romanticize or dramatize the scene. There is no excess narrative imposed by environment. What remains is structure and light, bone and shadow, the quiet architecture of a face, where silver records presence and breath animate it. Within her photographs tonal range becomes emotional language. Deep blacks carry gravity. Soft silvers hold vulnerability. Light moves across skin with a tactile quality that feels almost physical. Silver carries the image. Breath gives it life. The absence of color does not flatten the image. Instead, it deepens perception. Without chromatic cues the viewer reads the gesture more closely. One notices the slight tightening of a jaw, the softness of a shoulder, the steadiness or uncertainty within a gaze. The portraits reveal themselves gradually and reward careful attention. Her portraits do not perform. They do not insist. They hold. Yet even for Eva the camera can reveal something unexpected. “There have been times when I offered to make someone’s portrait out of courtesy and was not convinced it would succeed, but later I was astonished by the result. That experience has taught me that some people communicate differently through the lens than beside it. It has also made me reflect on the concept of being photogenic. No one can truly be called unphotogenic until the portrait has been made.” For Eva, failure in portraiture rarely lies with the subject. It lies within the frame itself. “For me a failed portrait can occur when I have not noticed distracting elements in the background or surroundings. Because I create my studios and photographic settings as I go, I have become very attentive to composition and arrange everything carefully before the subject enters the frame.” Those studios are rarely conventional spaces. “I photograph only in natural light, and I search for moments when the light becomes soft, particularly at dusk. I plan my portrait sessions according to the weather forecast and avoid making appointments during bright sunny days. I do not maintain a permanent studio but instead look for rooms wherever I happen to be staying where the light is optimal. That may be a hotel room or a staircase with a roof window. I usually carry a roll of tape and a large piece of thin fabric that allows me to adjust the light coming through a window.” In a time when faces are endlessly reproduced and rapidly consumed, Eva insists upon something slower. Her portraits return us to the essential act at the heart of photography. Attention. Like many portrait photographers, the earliest challenge was not technical but human. “In the beginning it was approaching people I did not know and asking whether I could make their portrait. I was very embarrassed by the possibility of hearing no.” Over time that hesitation transformed. “I have completely overcome that and now truly enjoy the moment of addressing people.” Her current challenge is nearly the opposite. “The most difficult part for me today is finding time to make all the portraits I want to make.” Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally, appearing in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and beyond. Her photographs have entered private and institutional collections and have been recognized for their clarity, restraint, and quiet strength. Yet what distinguishes her practice most is not recognition itself but the sustained rigor and generosity with which she approaches every portrait. When asked what she hopes viewers might experience through the portraits she captures, Nielsen does not speak about interpretation but about reflection. “I hope to evoke a moment of reflection in the viewer, to allow them to tune into the portrait and perhaps encounter solace, happiness, or inspiration.” Perhaps that message reveals something essential about Eva’s portraits. They do not dictate meaning. They create space for it. © Eva Christina Nielsen, Vanina with Flowers © Eva Christina Nielsen, The Waiting Room © Eva Christina Nielsen, The Girl Next Door © Eva Christina Nielsen, Lamp with Two Bulbs © Eva Christina Nielsen, Student Montmartre © Eva Christina Nielsen, Legs Montmartre © Eva Christina Nielsen, Ready for Life © Eva Christina Nielsen, Marthe with Bubble Gum © Eva Christina Nielsen, Yey's Friend © Eva Christina Nielsen, Somali Woman and Tree © Eva Christina Nielsen, Taxi Driver Budapest © Eva Christina Nielsen, Flow © Eva Christina Nielsen, House Lamps © Eva Christina Nielsen, Cassandra with Hat Adjusting Her Hair Eva Christina Nielsen’s portraits remind us that the act of seeing is never neutral. It carries responsibility. To photograph another person with care is to acknowledge their presence without attempting to possess it. Within the long history of portrait photography, her work speaks quietly yet with conviction. Where others have pursued drama or psychological intensity, Eva offers something rarer. Attentiveness. Her photographs do not demand interpretation. They offer space for reflection, for imagination, and for the viewer’s own encounter with another human being. In that space the portrait returns to its most essential form. Not an object. Not a performance. A moment of recognition. Silver records the light. Breath reminds us that someone once stood there. And in the work of Eva Christina Nielsen, that fleeting exchange between photographer and subject becomes something enduring. A small act of human presence held still long enough for us to truly see. view Eva Christina Nielsen's portfolio Website >> > Instagram >> > The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author/s and are not necessarily shared by The Pictorial List. read more stories >>> SILVER AND BREATH Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. RUPTURE REPAIR REMNANT In this reflection on rupture, Donna Bassin invites us to consider how grief settles into the body and the image, and how the slow work of witnessing becomes a form of repair. DELTA DUSK John Agather weaves image and text into a single current, tracing how music, memory, and daily life continue to move through the Mississippi Delta. SILENT BEAUTY Tamara Quadrelli photographs the world by slowing down inside it. There is no rush to explain what we are seeing. The pleasure comes from staying with it. SOLITUDE UNDER A TECHNIFIED SUN Tracing the space between movement and stillness, Héctor Morón reveals a city that persists as human presence slips by. 4320 MINUTES WITHOUT COLOR Moving between photography and narration, Mohammed Nahi traces a period in which sight could no longer be assumed as reliable, and attention shifted toward memory and duration. THE PAINTED VILLAGE OF LABANDHAR Anjan Ghosh’s photographs carry us to Labandhar, where painting becomes language, tradition stays present, and art grows through shared ground. ORDINARY GRIEF What endures when everything else is uncertain? Through photography, Parisa Azadi asks us to see Iran not as story, but as feeling. THE EVERYMAN Eva Mallis uncovers the quiet strength of overlooked lives, capturing everyday encounters in Mumbai’s industrial districts as intimate portraits of labor and resilience. IN BETWEEN LIFE AND AFTER In Cairo’s City of the Dead, families carve out ordinary lives among centuries of tombs — Paola Ferrarotti traces the fragile line between memory and survival. UNFIGURED Nasos Karabelas transforms the human body into a site of emotional flux — where perception fractures and inner states become visible form. VISIONS OF ICELAND FROM ABOVE Massimo Lupidi takes flight above Iceland — capturing nature’s abstract brushstrokes where land, water, and sky blur into poetic visions beyond the ordinary eye. UNDER THE CLOUDS Giordano Simoncini presents a visual ethnography of the interconnectedness of indigenous cosmology, material life, and the ecological balance within the Quechua communities of the Peruvian Andes. NYC SUBWAY RIDERS BEFORE THE INVASION OF SMARTPHONES Hiroyuki Ito’s subway photographs reveal a vanished intimacy — strangers lost in thought in a world before digital distractions took hold. THE GHOST SELF Buku Sarkar stages her refusal to vanish. Her photographs are unflinching, lyrical acts of documentation, mapping a body in flux and a mind grappling with the epistemic dissonance of chronic illness. WHISPERS On Mother’s Day, Regina Melo's story asks us to pause. To remember. To feel. It honors the profound, often quiet sacrifices that mothers make, and the invisible threads that bind us to them. BEYOND THE MASK By stepping beyond the scripted world of professional wrestling and into the raw terrain of mental health, Matteo Bergami and Fabio Giarratano challenge long-held myths about masculinity, endurance, and heroism. FRAGMENTS OF TIME Each of jfk's diptychs functions as a microcosm of the city, allowing viewers to experience urban life as constant fragmented glimpses, mirroring the unpredictable nature of human interactions. VANISHING VENICE Lorenzo Vitali’s portrayal of Venice is an almost surreal experience — where time dissolves, and the viewer is left with the sensation of stepping into a dreamscape. CLAY AND ASHES Abdulla Shinose CK explores the challenges faced by Kumhar Gram's potters, balancing tradition and adaptation in the face of modern pressures. ISLAND Enzo Crispino’s photographic series, “Nêsos,” invites viewers into an introspective journey that mirrors the artist’s rediscovery of his voice in photography after a prolonged period of creative estrangement. BEYOND THE BRICKS Amid Bangladesh’s dynamic urban growth, Anwar Ehtesham’s photography takes us beyond statistics and headlines, revealing the hidden lives of the laborers working tirelessly in the nation’s brick kilns. OAXACA In Oaxaca, Tommaso Stefanori captures Día de los Muertos, exploring the convergence of life and death, human connections, and enduring cultural rituals through evocative photographs of tradition and emotion. BEHIND THE PLANTS Wayan Barre documents Cancer Alley residents facing pollution and economic challenges, shedding light on their resilience and the impacts of environmental injustice. THE RED POPPY AND THE SUN By blending archival and contemporary images, Mei Seva creates a visual story that captures the ongoing struggles and moments of triumph for those impacted by displacement and circumstance.

EVA CHRISTINA NIELSEN My photography emerges from a deep instinct to observe and document. Since my earliest experiences with a Kodak Instamatic, the act of photographing has been tied to curiosity, human connection, and the search for quiet beauty. Working mostly in black and white and natural light, I photograph people and places encountered in daily life. Using a Leica Q2, I work intuitively, responding to what unfolds rather than constructing elaborate scenes. I do not work within strict projects. Instead, my practice is guided by attention and an openness to the small, often overlooked moments that surround us. Through these images I hope to pause time briefly, revealing beauty in the ordinary and creating photographs that allow viewers to enter their own thoughts, memories, and stories. LOCATION Vänersborg SWEDEN CAMERA/S Leica Q2 WEBSITE https://www.evachristinanielsen.com/ @EVA_CHRISTINA_NIELSEN FEATURES // Silver and Breath

Presenting the work of visual storytellers from around the world. SILENT BEAUTY Tamara Quadrelli photographs the world by slowing down inside it. There is no rush to explain what we are seeing. The pleasure comes from staying with it. PICTORIAL STORY SILVER AND BREATH Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. PICTORIAL STORY RUPTURE REPAIR REMNANT In this reflection on rupture, Donna Bassin invites us to consider how grief settles into the body and the image, and how the slow work of witnessing becomes a form of repair. PICTORIAL STORY DELTA DUSK John Agather weaves image and text into a single current, tracing how music, memory, and daily life continue to move through the Mississippi Delta. PICTORIAL STORY SILENT BEAUTY Tamara Quadrelli photographs the world by slowing down inside it. There is no rush to explain what we are seeing. The pleasure comes from staying with it. PICTORIAL STORY SOLITUDE UNDER A TECHNIFIED SUN Tracing the space between movement and stillness, Héctor Morón reveals a city that persists as human presence slips by. PICTORIAL STORY 4320 MINUTES WITHOUT COLOR Moving between photography and narration, Mohammed Nahi traces a period in which sight could no longer be assumed as reliable, and attention shifted toward memory and duration. PICTORIAL STORY THE PAINTED VILLAGE OF LABANDHAR Anjan Ghosh’s photographs carry us to Labandhar, where painting becomes language, tradition stays present, and art grows through shared ground. PICTORIAL STORY ORDINARY GRIEF What endures when everything else is uncertain? Through photography, Parisa Azadi asks us to see Iran not as story, but as feeling. PICTORIAL STORY THE EVERYMAN Eva Mallis uncovers the quiet strength of overlooked lives, capturing everyday encounters in Mumbai’s industrial districts as intimate portraits of labor and resilience. PICTORIAL STORY IN BETWEEN LIFE AND AFTER In Cairo’s City of the Dead, families carve out ordinary lives among centuries of tombs — Paola Ferrarotti traces the fragile line between memory and survival. PICTORIAL STORY UNFIGURED Nasos Karabelas transforms the human body into a site of emotional flux — where perception fractures and inner states become visible form. PICTORIAL STORY VISIONS OF ICELAND FROM ABOVE Massimo Lupidi takes flight above Iceland — capturing nature’s abstract brushstrokes where land, water, and sky blur into poetic visions beyond the ordinary eye. PICTORIAL STORY UNDER THE CLOUDS Giordano Simoncini presents a visual ethnography of the interconnectedness of indigenous cosmology, material life, and the ecological balance within the Quechua communities of the Peruvian Andes. PICTORIAL STORY NYC SUBWAY RIDERS BEFORE THE INVASION OF SMARTPHONES Hiroyuki Ito’s subway photographs reveal a vanished intimacy — strangers lost in thought in a world before digital distractions took hold. PICTORIAL STORY THE GHOST SELF Buku Sarkar stages her refusal to vanish. Her photographs are unflinching, lyrical acts of documentation, mapping a body in flux and a mind grappling with the epistemic dissonance of chronic illness. PICTORIAL STORY WHISPERS On Mother’s Day, Regina Melo's story asks us to pause. To remember. To feel. It honors the profound, often quiet sacrifices that mothers make, and the invisible threads that bind us to them. PICTORIAL STORY BEYOND THE MASK By stepping beyond the scripted world of professional wrestling and into the raw terrain of mental health, Matteo Bergami and Fabio Giarratano challenge long-held myths about masculinity, endurance, and heroism. PICTORIAL STORY FRAGMENTS OF TIME Each of jfk's diptychs functions as a microcosm of the city, allowing viewers to experience urban life as constant fragmented glimpses, mirroring the unpredictable nature of human interactions. PICTORIAL STORY VANISHING VENICE Lorenzo Vitali’s portrayal of Venice is an almost surreal experience — where time dissolves, and the viewer is left with the sensation of stepping into a dreamscape. PICTORIAL STORY CLAY AND ASHES Abdulla Shinose CK explores the challenges faced by Kumhar Gram's potters, balancing tradition and adaptation in the face of modern pressures. PICTORIAL STORY ISLAND Enzo Crispino’s photographic series, “Nêsos,” invites viewers into an introspective journey that mirrors the artist’s rediscovery of his voice in photography after a prolonged period of creative estrangement. PICTORIAL STORY BEYOND THE BRICKS Amid Bangladesh’s dynamic urban growth, Anwar Ehtesham’s photography takes us beyond statistics and headlines, revealing the hidden lives of the laborers working tirelessly in the nation’s brick kilns. PICTORIAL STORY OAXACA In Oaxaca, Tommaso Stefanori captures Día de los Muertos, exploring the convergence of life and death, human connections, and enduring cultural rituals through evocative photographs of tradition and emotion. PICTORIAL STORY BEHIND THE PLANTS Wayan Barre documents Cancer Alley residents facing pollution and economic challenges, shedding light on their resilience and the impacts of environmental injustice. PICTORIAL STORY THE RED POPPY AND THE SUN By blending archival and contemporary images, Mei Seva creates a visual story that captures the ongoing struggles and moments of triumph for those impacted by displacement and circumstance.

ANJAN GHOSH My photography is an ongoing dialogue between people, place, and time. I seek to bridge the widening rural–urban divide in India by documenting the dignity, resilience, and quiet poetry of everyday life in communities that often remain unseen or unheard. My work focuses primarily on Bengal, where tradition, labor, faith, and survival intersect in subtle yet powerful ways. I am drawn to the beauty of the ordinary — a fleeting gesture, a weathered face, a ritual performed without spectacle. These moments carry profound emotional weight. I photograph not to sensationalize hardship, but to honor humanity. At the heart of my practice is a belief that photography can preserve memory. In a rapidly urbanizing nation, rural lives and traditions are disappearing at an alarming pace. Through long-term engagement with villages, labor communities, and aging populations, my work becomes an archive of lived experiences — not frozen in nostalgia, but alive with truth and complexity. My photography is both personal and political. Choosing to look closely is an act of resistance against indifference. Photography, for me, is an ethical commitment — to see with care, to represent with integrity, and to tell stories that endure beyond the moment they are captured. LOCATION Kolkata INDIA CAMERA/S Canon EOS R Mark II, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV WEBSITE http://anjanghosh.org/ @anjan.ghosh FEATURES // The Painted Village of Labandhar

DONNA BASSIN I am a Brooklyn-born, New Jersey–based photo artist, filmmaker, writer, and clinical psychologist whose work as a trauma therapist has profoundly shaped my practice. I focus on long-term projects that explore painful aspects of modern life, such as post-traumatic stress, racism, social injustice, and, most recently, environmental destruction. Before turning to photography and film, I studied art therapy at Pratt Institute and started as a handmade clay artist. Those early experiences, working directly with materials and later with patients, taught me that rupture leaves marks not only on bodies and minds but also on the surfaces we touch and shape. This awareness continues to influence my art. My photographs bear their own scars, burned, torn, sutured, or reinforced with gold washi tape, not to hide damage but to reveal trauma and loss so that healing can begin. Collaboration and community remain central. As co-creator of Frontline Arts, I worked with veterans to transform military uniforms into handmade paper, an experience that culminated in By Our Own Hand, a site specific installation at the Montclair Art Museum. These collective acts of making extend my studio practice into shared moments of mourning and repair. My approach is guided by psychoanalysis, which trained me to listen for the unspeakable, and by Japanese traditions such as kintsugi and calligraphy, which honor repair and imperfection. I draw inspiration from Hiroshi Sugimoto’s meditations on time, Doris Salcedo’s sculptural mourning, Anselm Kiefer’s scarred landscapes of memory, and Richard Avedon’s honest and vulnerable portraits. Alongside photography, I have created several short art films and directed two award winning feature documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After. Film and video allow me to expand my photographic work into time and motion. My photographs, writing, and interviews have appeared in Tricycle, Lenscratch, Fotonostrum, Grazia, Borderline Press’ Facsimile, Lens Magazine, FLOAT, LandEscape Art Review, Dodho Magazine, The Hand Magazine, Analog Forever, Vostok Magazine, and Overlapse’s Stir the Pot. I received a 2024 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant and a 2021 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and I was recognized as both a Top 50 Photographer and a Finalist for Critical Mass from 2022 to 2024. My series The Afterlife of Dolls was featured on New Jersey PBS’s State of the Arts, and Portraits of the Precarious Earth appeared in “The Art of Repair” on Rhode Island PBS’s Art Inc. I have held solo exhibitions at the Newport Art Museum, R.I.; the Montclair Art Museum, N.J.; the Morris Museum, N.J.; the Passaic Arts Center, N.J.; Mira Forum, Porto, Portugal; and Espaço D’Artes, Lisbon, Portugal, as well as in SaveArtSpace’s billboard project in Brooklyn, N.Y. LOCATION New Jersey UNITED STATES CAMERA/S Sony, iPhone & Diana Pinhole WEBSITE https://www.donnabassin.com/ @P1NHOLE.DONNABASSIN FEATURES // Rupture Repair Remnant

TAMARA QUADRELLI My photographic work emerges from an intimate dialogue with the ordinary architecture of the Italian landscape. I am not interested in celebrated monuments or tourist icons, but rather in those fragments of the built environment that we inhabit daily without truly seeing: a pastel-colored facade dialoguing with the sky, the geometric shadow of a shutter, the corner of a building that becomes pure chromatic abstraction. My research focuses on visual synthesis, on the elimination of everything superfluous to reveal the poetic essence of vernacular architecture. Each image is a work of subtraction: I isolate, I simplify, I transform the banal into the extraordinary through the calibrated use of color, light, and geometric composition. My chromatic palettes — powder pink, dusty blue, Mediterranean ochre, sage green — are never casual, but the result of patient research and waiting for the right light. What fascinates me is the capacity of minor architecture to tell stories without words, to be a mirror of a cultural identity that manifests itself in details: in the way a community chooses its colors, in the proportions of windows, in the texture of weathered plaster. My photographic approach is contemplative, almost meditative: I seek those moments of grace in which form, color, and light merge into perfect harmony. LOCATION Friuli Venezia Giulia ITALY CAMERA/S Panasonic Lumix GX 80 WEBSITE https://www.tamaraquadrelli.com/ @TAMARAQUADRELLI FEATURES // Silent Beauty

JOHN AGATHER From leading business ventures across diverse industries to creating meaningful art through music and photography, my journey reflects a unique blend of entrepreneurial leadership and creative expression. I was born in Mexico and am now based in San Antonio, Texas. I began photographing in black and white at fourteen, spending long hours in the darkroom where I found both discipline and refuge. My work centers on documentary and street photography, driven by the pursuit of moments as they unfold. I draw inspiration from photographers such as Atget, Erwitt, and Cartier-Bresson, whose approaches to observation and timing continue to inform my practice. I am a member of The Raw Society, and my work has been published in Street Photography Magazine, Air Speed Magazine, Menorca – Es Diari, and the Raw Society Substack. Alongside photography, I am an entrepreneur and a singer-songwriter with several albums to my name. LOCATION San Antonio TEXAS CAMERA/S Hasselblad X2D II 100C WEBSITE https://www.johnagather.com/ @JOHNAGATHER FEATURES // Delta Dusk

MOHAMMED NAHI I am an Algerian photographer whose work explores the human condition through street and documentary photography. My practice is grounded in observation, intuition, and lived experience, often focusing on everyday moments, social rituals, and the emotional undercurrents of public spaces. I am particularly drawn to themes of identity, memory, and vulnerability, using photography as a tool to question reality rather than simply document it. Through my images, I seek to create visual narratives that balance honesty and poetry, inviting viewers to slow down and reflect. LOCATION Aflou ALGERIA CAMERA/S Fujifilm X-T1 @MOHAMED_NAHI1 FEATURES // 4320 Minutes Without Color

ISOLDA FABREGAT SANZ Photography is the art of choice. In this chaotic world where everything and everyone seems to be spinning around; photography helps me to process it. The camera allows me to frame reality, and it requires me to put focus on something or someone. I am mainly interested in portrait, fashion, and documentary photography. Always using the knowledge of the history of art that Jiminy Cricket whispers in my ear. LOCATION Barcelona SPAIN CAMERA/S Sony alpha 7aIII WEBSITE https://www.isoldafabregat.com/ @ISOLDA_PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURES // Guided By A Whisper

HÉCTOR MORÓN Self-taught and based in southern Spain, I began developing my fine-art photographic practice in 2019, following an earlier audiovisual work, Brutus (2017). My work focuses on long-exposure and ICM imagery, through which I developed Allegorical Abstractionism — a visual philosophy that redefines ICM through a Mediterranean Baroque sensibility: solar, emotional, and incandescent, where light becomes both matter and metaphor. My major series (Eden Tree, Encrypted Sun, Volcano Sea, Alhambra Triptych, Tree Series, Abstraction Series, Paths Series) establish a dialogue between the physical and the divine, situating my practice within the contemporary avant-garde of experimental photography. LOCATION Granada SPAIN CAMERA/S Sony 6300 WEBSITE https://hectormoronphotography.com/ @HECTOR_ALLEGORICAL FEATURES // Solitude Under a Technified Sun