Be inspired by the photographers on the 2020 List. 2020 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Abbie Briggs ABBIE BRIGGS Madison UNITED STATES ABHAY PATEL Delhi INDIA ABHISHEK SINGH New Delhi INDIA ADAM SINCLAIR Melbourne AUSTRALIA ADESH GAUR Uttar Pradesh INDIA ADRIAN TAN SINGAPORE ADRIAN WHEAR Melbourne AUSTRALIA AHMET HOJAMYRADOV Minsk BELARUS ALEX FRAYNE Adelaide AUSTRALIA ALEXANDRA AVLONITIS Manhattan UNITED STATES ALEXEY STRECHEN Moscow RUSSIA ALICIA HABER Montevideo URAGUAY ANEEKA MANKU Birmingham UNITED KINGDOM ANGEL CARNICER Zaragoza SPAIN ANNA MARCHIOLI Clamart FRANCE ANNETTE LANG Nice FRANCE ANTONIS GIAKOUMAKIS Athens GREECE ANWAR SADAT Nairobi KENYA ARTURO CAÑEDO Lima PERU ASHISH PATEL Delhi INDIA ASSIA STARKE Vienna AUSTRIA ASTRID NEUNDLINGER Vienna AUSTRIA B JANE LEVINE New York City UNITED STATES BELINDA CORNEY London UNITED KINGDOM BENNY VAN DEN BULKE Adegem BELGIUM

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2022 List. 2022 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Adrian Pelegrin ADRIAN PELEGRIN Playa del Carmen MEXICO AHSANUL HAQUE FAHIM Dhaka, BANGLADESH AJ BERNSTEIN New York UNITED STATES ANWAR EHTESHAM Dhaka BANGLADESH ASEN GEORGIEV Sofia BULGARIA ASLI GONEN Eskisehir TURKEY BRIAN DOUGLAS Ontario CANADA CAHLEEN HUDSON New Taipei City TAIWAN CHETAN VERMA Gurgaon INDIA DEAN GOLDBERG New York UNITED STATES ELIZABETH PAOLETTI UNITED STATES EMIR SEVIM Istanbul TURKEY EMY MAIKE Baden Württemberg GERMANY FRANCESCA TIBONI Cagliari ITALY GABRIEL MIELES GUZMÁN Guayaquil ECUADOR GABRIELE GENTILE Parma ITALY GIANLUCA MORTAROTTI London UNITED KINGDOM GIORGIO GERARDI Venice ITALY JAN ENKELMANN London UNITED KINGDOM JEAN ROSS New York UNITED STATES JELISA PETERSON Texas UNITED STATES JENS F. KRUSE Mallorca SPAIN JONAS WELTEN Salzburg AUSTRIA LAINE MULLALLY Stockholm SWEDEN LELE BISSOLI Vercelli ITALY

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2025 List. 2025 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Stephanie Duprie Routh ABDULLA SHINOSE CK Malabar INDIA ALEJANDRO DAVILA Pachuca MEXICO ANTON BOU Montreal CANADA AYANAVA SIL Kolkata INDIA BETTY GOH SINGAPORE BUKU SARKAR Paris FRANCE CYNTHIA KARALLA New York UNITED STATES DAVID GRAY New York UNITED STATES EVA MALLIS New York UNITED STATES FANJA HUBERS Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS FUTURE HACKNEY London UNITED KINGDOM GIORDANO SIMONCINI Rome ITALY GUILLERMO FRANCO Córdoba ARGENTINA HIROYUKI ITO New York UNITED STATES JAY HSU Yilan City TAIWAN KAT PUCHOWSKA Barcelona SPAIN LAETITIA HEISLER Berlin GERMANY LUISA MONTAGNA Parma ITALY MASSIMO LUPIDI ITALY MATTEO BERGAMI Bologna ITALY MEERA NERURKAR Düsseldorf GERMANY NASOS KARABELAS Greece ATHENS NICOLA CAPPELLARI Vicenza ITALY PARISA AZADI IRAN & DUBAI PARVATHI KUMAR New Jersey UNITED STATES

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2021 List. 2021 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Meryl Meisler AGATA LO MONACO Gela ITALY ALAN THEXTON Melbourne AUSTRALIA ALEX RUTHERFORD Surrey UNITED KINGDOM ANDRES GONZALEZ Porto PORTUGAL ANDREW ROVENKO Melbourne AUSTRALIA ANDRÉ LOBÃO London UNITED KINGDOM AURÉLIEN BOMY Nantes FRANCE BARRY BOTTOMLEY London UNITED KINGDOM BASTIAN PETER Basel SWITZERLAND BEN ALLAN London UNITED KINGDOM BETTY MANOUSOS Athens GREECE CAMILLE WHEELER Austin UNITED STATES CARLA HENOUD Beirut LEBANON CAROL DRONSFIELD Brooklyn UNITED STATES CHICHEK BAYRAMLY Baku AZERBAIJAN CHRISTINA SIMONS Melbourne AUSTRALIA DAMIEN GORET Brest FRANCE DANIEL GOLDENBERG Buenos Aires ARGENTINA DANIELA PEREIRA Montevideo URUGUAY DANNY JACKSON Essex UNITED KINGDOM DAVID KUGELMAS New Jersey UNITED STATES DAVID LAWLESS Winnipeg CANADA DAVID SHORTLAND London UNITED KINGDOM DREW KELLEY California UNITED STATES EDUARDO ORTIZ Valparaiso CHILE

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2023 List. 2023 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Ypatia Kornarou AARON RUBINO San Francisco UNITED STATES ALESSANDRO GIUGNI Milan ITALY ALEX GOTTFRIED BONDER Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA AMY NEWTON McCONNEL Arizona UNITED STATES ANASTASIYA PENTYUKHINA Moscow RUSSIA ANDREE THORPE Ontario CANADA BARBARA PEACOCK Portland UNITED STATES BRANDEN MAY Atlanta, UNITED STATES DARREN SACKS London UNITED KINGDOM DOUG WINTER California UNITED STATES ELSA ARRAIS Leiria PORTUGAL FABIO CATANZARO Venice ITALY GILES ISBELL Chiang Mai, THAILAND IDA DI PASQUALE Rome ITALY JAN PONNET Antwerp BELGIUM JAYESH KUMAR SHARMA Varanasi INDIA JEFF ROTHSTEIN New York UNITED STATES JUAN BARTE Madrid SPAIN JUAN SOSTRE California UNITED STATES KONRAD HELLFEUER Görlitz GERMANY LEANNE STAPLES New York UNITED STATES MENA SAMBIASI Madrid SPAIN MONIKA JURGA POLAND NAIMA HALL New York UNITED STATES NSIRIES Bologna ITALY

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2024 List. 2024 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Anna Tut ALEXANDROS ZILOS Athens GREECE AMY HOROWITZ New York UNITED STATES ANA-MARIA ALB Bukovina ROMANIA ANN PETRUCKEVITCH UNITED KINGDOM ANNA TUT Krasnogorsk City RUSSIA CARMEN SOLANA CIRES Madrid SPAIN CATIA MONTAGNA SCOTLAND/ITALY DASHA DARVAJ UMRIGAR Karachi PAKISTAN DEDIPYA BASAK Kolkata INDIA EDWIN CARUNGAY San Francisco UNITED STATES FRANCE LECLERC Chicago UNITED STATES ISABELLE COORDES Münster GERMANY JOHN KAYACAN Los Angeles UNITED STATES JUSTINE GEORGET Lyon FRANCE MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN New York UNITED STATES MATTHIAS GÖDDE Beckum GERMANY MEI SEVA New York UNITED STATES MIA DEPAOLA Washington D.C UNITED STATES NAZANIN DAVARI Tehran IRAN PAUL COOKLIN UNITED KINGDOM PEDRO VIDAL Barcelona SPAIN RAFA ROJAS São Paulo BRAZIL ROMAIN COUDRIER Marseille FRANCE ROWELL B. TIMOTEO La Union PHILIPPINES SASHA IVANOV St. Petersburg RUSSIA

We are on a mission to discover new photographers, and the most pictorial and interesting photo stories out there. SPOTLIGHT / IRINA SEDLETSKAYA Karagandy KAZAKHSTAN AARON RUBINO ABBIE BRIGGS ABDULLA SHINOSE CK ABHAY PATEL ABHISHEK SINGH ADAM SINCLAIR ADESH GAUR ADRIAN PELEGRIN ADRIAN TAN ADRIAN WHEAR AGATA LO MONACO AHMET HOJAMYRADOV AJ BERNSTEIN ALAN THEXTON ALEJANDRO DAVILA ALESSANDRO GIUGNI ALEX FRAYNE ALEX GOTTFRIED BONDER ALEX RUTHERFORD ALEXANDRA AVLONITIS ALEXANDROS ZILOS ALEXEY STRECHEN ALICIA HABER AMY HOROWITZ AMY NEWTON McCONNEL GET ON THE LIST © Ypatia Kornarou

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MAKING NOISE As a very sociable person and able to talk to everyone, street photography for Noisy Kid is an artistic discipline that he practices simply. MAKING NOISE February 23, 2022 INTERVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY Noisy Kid INTERVIEW Melanie Meggs Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link SHARE Noisy Kid has been around for quite a while; first as a musician, and now as a photographer. His fun, outgoing personality and willingness to talk to anyone make him the perfect street photographer. He's known for his unique style, which he describes as 'Wherever you are, I shoot you!' His photographs capture candid moments of everyday life with an attitude that's both playful and spontaneous. At an exhibition of his work, a lady asked him how he could photograph people so easily. Noisy Kid explained that he has the ability to connect with people quickly and without hesitation. He never waits hours for the perfect moment and instead relies on his instinct and proximity to his subjects. He's an artist with a distinct approach that comes from his experience as a musician, and as a photographer, he has mastered the art of noise in photography. “I played guitar in a punk rock band with which we did a few gigs. I had a tumour on my auditory nerve and after the operation it was prudent to stop playing music. I am a bit deaf on the left side. My nickname as a musician was Noisy Kid, now it is my nickname as a photographer. I was lucky because the notion of noise exists in photography.” IN CONVERSATION WITH NOISY KID THE PICTORIAL LIST: Noisy Kid please tell us about yourself. NOISY KID: I am a 53 year old Belgian photographer. I am very dynamic and very sociable. I live around 40 minutes from Brussels. My house is in the countryside, so it's pretty nice during a pandemic. Only the moment counts for me. I never analyse myself in relation to the past. Today I'm ok in a crazy world, I always see the glass half full, never half empty. I think that my sociable side is reflected in my images. I have a second job as an office worker (administrative expert). TPL: What draws you to photography and art? How did your journey into photography begin? NK: I started drawing when I was a little boy. I think the reason is simple, I liked comics and I wanted to reproduce what I was reading. There's nothing to intellectualise, that's the only reason. When I was older, I gave up drawing for music. I played guitar in a punk rock band with which we did a few gigs. The problem with the band was that one of the members was a drum machine, which never replaces a real drummer (at least at that time, late 90s). As for me, I had a tumour on my auditory nerve and after the operation it was prudent to stop playing music. I am a bit deaf on the left side. My nickname as a musician was Noisy Kid, now it is my nickname as a photographer. I was lucky because the notion of noise exists in photography. To start with, I bought a Nikon D7000 and joined a photo club whose members had a lot of experience and good advice. TPL: Tell us the story behind the series of images that you have sent to us. What do you want to express with your work? NK: I walk, I photograph, I talk to the people I sometimes put in the situation, I laugh. My photographs don't have to tell anything special, by its nature a portrait already gives off a lot of emotion. However, I always look at what is happening in the viewfinder of my camera. My eyes tell me if it's okay. Note that while I like photos that are simply beautiful and decorative, I do not reject those that tell a story. I've stopped photographing the homeless, it's too easy and I have no lessons to give. I prefer to give them $2 or a bowl of soup. TPL: What have been some of your favourite memories or moments in your photography journey thus far? NK: I will tell you about a moment with a London policeman I wanted to photograph. He was very playful and had a typical English humour. I felt that my camera was a remote control for him and only for him. I could ask him to do anything, even to jump in with both feet. I swear it wasn't Mr Bean. TPL: Do you have any favourite artists and photographers? NK: Robert Doisneau, Stanley Kubrick, Frank Horvat, Dennis Hopper, Léonard Misonne, Peter Lindbergh, Brassaï, John Bulmer, William Claxton, Bruce Gilden, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Larry Fink, Walker Evans, Elliott Erwitt, Alice Springs, Chuck Close, René Magritte, Salvador Dali, Renoir, Piet Mondrian, J.M.W. Turner, Victor Vasarely, Paula Raiglot, Driving Dead Girl, Séverine Day, Hammer-Jam-Her,The Kinks, The Ramones, Cosmic Psychos, The Monsters, Ennio Morricone, Frank Sinatra, Rock garage, Punk-Rock, Hardcore, Alternative rock, Tim Burton, Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bronson, Louis de Funès, Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Brigitte Bardot, Diana Rigg, Benny Hill, Jerry Seinfeld, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson (Bottom), Marc Jolivet, Robin Pourbaix,... I walk, I photograph, I talk to the people I sometimes put in the situation, I laugh. TPL: If you could just choose one photographer to shoot alongside for a day...who would you choose? NK: Peter Lindbergh, just great. I'll watch, I'll listen, I'll learn. TPL: Does the equipment you use help you in achieving your vision in your photography? What camera do you use? Do you have a preferred lens/focal length? How much post-processing do you do? NK: My favourite camera at this moment is the very versatile Nikon D750, perfect for me. I keep an eye on Fujifilm's medium format cameras, not just a dream, I hope. I always look for contact, proximity with people, I always face them. Therefore, a 24-70mm f2.8 lens and a 35mm lens are largely sufficient. I also use the 24-70mm when I take pictures during concerts. A 85mm lens is my maximum limit in studio photography (portrait, fashion photography). A 70-200mm f2.8 lens? Why not but rarely because I don't have this lens. For street photography, I sometimes use a cobra flash if it's absolutely necessary or to satisfy an artistic intention. I have 2 x « Elinchrom ELC 500 monolight studio flash » + many light shapers. I use Lightroom to develop my RAW files, I use Photoshop for retouching and editing. TPL: What are your goals as an artist or photographer? Where do you hope to see yourself in five years? What do you see as the next chapter in your exploration for future projects? NK: Let's just say I'll stop taking pictures when technology allows us to take perfect photos with our own eyes. Just to say, look Blincam in 2016, a wearable camera which attaches to any pair of glasses. It lets you capture the moment instantly by a wink, or a blink. There's already a race to develop technology for the contact lenses of the future. Medically it will be great, but artistically it won't be fun for me. We will be in the world of fast and effortless photography. In five years' time, I will of course still be there. The pandemic is constraining but I want to do new exhibitions. I also hope that my online shop will be successful. The large prints I sell have a really nice quality (piezography or chromaluxe). I don't sell worldwide. For the moment I only sell where I can deliver myself, so mainly in my Belgium. TPL: When I am not out photographing, I (like to)… NK: When I'm not out photographing, I like to listen to music, play guitar for myself...let my imagination go. PORTFOLIO WEBSITE INSTAGRAM read more interviews >>> WHERE EMOTIONS BREATHE Simple encounters Irina Sedletskaya almost missed become photographs shaped by silence, distance, uncertainty, memory, hope, and resilience. THE VILLAGE A workers’ neighbourhood becomes a living archive as Virginia Cassano photographs the people, streets, and memories that continue to shape Villaggio Piaggio. MUTABLE MORPHOGENESIS By merging scientific methodologies with photographic experimentation, Emma Varga creates images that challenge fixed distinctions between human and non-human, visible and invisible. THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS Chad Coombs’ Polaroids are small psychological scenes where identity, memory, culture, and belief push against each other. WHERE WE BELONG Community storytelling lies at the heart of The Pictorial List’s mission, and Marlon Ramos’ photographs reflects the spirit of the place we now call home. 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More than documentation, David Gray reveals the human pulse of resistance and asks us to see beyond the surface of unrest. CRACKED RIBS 2016 Cynthia Karalla opens up about the art of survival, the power of perspective, and why she believes each of us holds a monopoly on our own narrative. STREETS OF KOLKATA Ayanava Sil’s reveals Kolkata’s soul, capturing moments with empathy, presence and humility while offering deep insight into both city and self. PERIPHERAL PLACES A project by Catia Montagna that distills fleeting encounters and spatial poetics into triptychs - visual short stories that capture the in-between, where meaning often hides. POINTE-AU-CHIEN IS NOT DEAD Through Wayan Barre’s documentary, we are invited not only to see but to feel the lived realities of a community standing at the crossroads of environmental collapse and cultural survival. 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VISUAL AMBIGUITIES Through her photography, Alicia Haber's intentions are to question what is the 'realism' or what is the 'truth' to stimulate the viewer. VISUAL AMBIGUITIES May 3, 2020 INTERVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY Alicia Haber INTERVIEW Melanie Meggs Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link SHARE Alicia Haber is an esteemed Art Historian and Curator of Contemporary Art who has led a fascinating life of international travel and exploration. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, she has since made a name for herself in the art world, receiving grants and invitations from universities and cultural institutions across Western Europe and the United States. Now retired, Alicia has taken up photography as her passion and is using her lens to challenge the notions of ‘realism’ and ‘truth’. Through her creative works, she encourages viewers to look beyond the surface and ponder the ambiguities of what they observe. Decades of exploration, study, and observation have made Alicia a masterful storyteller; her photographs are proof of her extraordinary eye for detail and her ability to capture profoundly captivating moments. Join us as we learn more about Alicia Haber, her eye-opening works, and her journey to becoming a renowned visual artist. “Since I was very young, but I only took photographs as a tourist, for my Art History classes, or of my children. I have been a photographer for the last two years and a half once I started studying photography. Then, after I knew how to deal with the technical aspects of my Sony Alpha 6300 and with editing with Photoshop, I started looking for my own subject matters and my own personal visual language.” IN CONVERSATION WITH ALICIA HABER THE PICTORIAL LIST: Hello Alicia...welcome to The List! Tell us, where do you find your inspiration? ALICIA HABER: I find inspiration in the city, basically in Montevideo and also in cities in Brazil, where I travel quite often. I am a very urban person. I am not attracted to landscapes, flowers, and nature in general. People in their daily life interest me a lot. I am not in search of a realistic depiction of the world. My photos, in general, concentrate on reflections, blurs produced by camera movement or slow speed and movement of the subject, silhouettes. In general, though, I do not want total abstraction. I let the image or images to be seen, to stay in the picture, even if they are blurred or duplicated. TPL: Where is your favourite place to photograph? AH: In the city, in the streets, in places related to urban life. TPL: Do you feel that you have grown in your photography since you started almost 3 years ago? Has your style of photographing changed? AH: Yes, it has changed. My photography is a work in progress. I keep studying, now by myself, learning about new ways of expressions, trying to find new challenges and finding new approaches. TPL: Tell us more about your involvement in the artistic world before photography? AH: I am an Art Historian and curator. I have taught Art History, wrote books on famous Uruguayan artists, curated hundreds of exhibitions of Uruguayan artists both in Uruguay and abroad (Brazil, Argentina, New York, Los Angeles, Germany, Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo Biennale, among others), have presented papers on Uruguayan art in several conferences of Art Historians and Art Critics in Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Sweden, and many other countries. I am not in search of a realistic depiction of the world. TPL: What characteristics do you think you need to become a better photographer? What’s your tips or advice for someone in your genre? AH: Be audacious. Be curious. Open your mind. Reject the obvious. Look at Contemporary art. Visit museum or virtual museum. Watch very good films with very good photography. Learn from the photography masters. Keep visiting sites where you can look for different types of photography, particularly the ones that break stereotypes. Establish dialogues with other colleagues. TPL: Do you think equipment is important in achieving your vision in your photography? What would you say to someone just starting out? AH: Good equipment is necessary. It does not have to be an expensive one. You can always upgrade it later. It is important to know how to use it. Then, the real important thing is to look at the world around you and find ways to depict it in your own way. Ex nihilo nihil. So, look at what other photographers, particularly masters, have done. And learn from them. Do not copy them. Be inspired by them. Look for your own style. Look for your own voice. TPL: Do you have any favourite artists or photographers you would like to share with us? AH: Saul Leiter, William Klein. And many, many others. TPL: Are there any special projects you are currently working on that you would like to let everyone know about? AH: During the lockdown and quarantine period we are now living, I have to stay at home, and keep photographing. It is a new challenge. I have to solve the problems alone. I photograph outside my window at night, in the evening, and inside my apartment. My intention is always to problematize the regard and challenge common concepts of what is real. So, also at home I work with camera movement or the movement of the model. Fortunately, a Brazilian friend is staying with me during the quarantine, and she is so nice that she lets me photograph her. I am trying to convey different moods produced by confinement, also everyday life during Covid-19, inside and outside the apartment and what is going on with the neighbours. TPL: "If I wasn't photographing what would I be doing?... AH: Now my great passion is photography, so I cannot imagine anything else." PORTFOLIO WEBSITE INSTAGRAM read more interviews >>> WHERE EMOTIONS BREATHE Simple encounters Irina Sedletskaya almost missed become photographs shaped by silence, distance, uncertainty, memory, hope, and resilience. THE VILLAGE A workers’ neighbourhood becomes a living archive as Virginia Cassano photographs the people, streets, and memories that continue to shape Villaggio Piaggio. MUTABLE MORPHOGENESIS By merging scientific methodologies with photographic experimentation, Emma Varga creates images that challenge fixed distinctions between human and non-human, visible and invisible. THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS Chad Coombs’ Polaroids are small psychological scenes where identity, memory, culture, and belief push against each other. WHERE WE BELONG Community storytelling lies at the heart of The Pictorial List’s mission, and Marlon Ramos’ photographs reflects the spirit of the place we now call home. GUIDED BY A WHISPER Guided by reflection and the quiet presence of art history, Isolda Fabregat Sanz makes photographs that resist certainty and invite the viewer to remain inside the act of looking. WHAT REMAINS, WHAT EMERGES Laetitia Heisler transforms risk, memory, and the body into layered analogue visions — feminist rituals of seeing that reveal what endures, and what quietly emerges beyond visibility. WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE DO Culture lives where art and community meet, and in this space Alejandro Dávila’s photographs reveal the unseen labor and devotion that sustain creation. ANALOGICAL LIMBO Nicola Cappellari reminds us that the photograph’s power lies not in what it shows, but in what it leaves unsaid. THREADS OF MOROCCAN LIFE Through gestures of work and moments of community, Kat Puchowska reveals Morocco’s overlooked beauty. IT STARTED AS LIGHT…ENDED IN SHIVERS… Between intimacy and estrangement, Anton Bou’s photographs wander — restless fragments of light and shadow, mapping the fragile terrain where self unravels into sensation. WITH EYES THAT LISTEN AND A HEART THAT SEES For decades, Rivka Shifman Katvan has documented the unseen backstage world of Broadway, capturing authenticity where performance and humanity intersect. DIPTYCH DIALOGUES Through the beautiful language of diptychs, Taiwanese photographer Jay Hsu invites us into a world where quiet images speak of memory, resilience, and hope. UNKNOWN ABYSSINIA In Ethiopia, Sebastian Piatek found a new way of seeing — where architecture endures, but women in motion carry the narrative forward. THE PULSE OF THE STREET Moments vanish, yet Suvam Saha holds them still — the pulse of India’s streets captured in fragments of life that will never repeat. WHAT DO WE WANT? More than documentation, David Gray reveals the human pulse of resistance and asks us to see beyond the surface of unrest. CRACKED RIBS 2016 Cynthia Karalla opens up about the art of survival, the power of perspective, and why she believes each of us holds a monopoly on our own narrative. STREETS OF KOLKATA Ayanava Sil’s reveals Kolkata’s soul, capturing moments with empathy, presence and humility while offering deep insight into both city and self. PERIPHERAL PLACES A project by Catia Montagna that distills fleeting encounters and spatial poetics into triptychs - visual short stories that capture the in-between, where meaning often hides. POINTE-AU-CHIEN IS NOT DEAD Through Wayan Barre’s documentary, we are invited not only to see but to feel the lived realities of a community standing at the crossroads of environmental collapse and cultural survival. QUEER HAPPENED HERE Author Marc Zinaman sheds light on the valuable contributions that LGBTQ+ individuals have made to the cultural and social fabric of New York City. TRACES OF TIME Marked by an ongoing visual dialogue with time, memory, and impermanence, Zamin Jafarov’s long-term projects highlight the quiet power of observation and the emotional depth of simplicity. THERE MY LITTLE EYES Guillermo Franco’s book is an exploration of seeing beyond the obvious. His work invites us to embrace patience, curiosity, and the unexpected in a world that often rushes past the details. VISUAL HEALING BEYOND THE DIAGNOSIS Betty Goh’s photography exemplifies the transformative power of visual storytelling, where personal adversity becomes a canvas for resilience, illuminating the connection between art, healing, and self-reclamation. EVERYDAY BLACKNESS Parvathi Kumar’s book is a profound tribute to the resilience, and contributions of incredible Black women from all walks of life, making it a vital addition to the conversation around International Women’s Month.

ORDINARY INTIMACY Photography for Claudia Orsetti is a way of knowing places and people and their stories, but also knowing herself. ORDINARY INTIMACY June 26, 2020 INTERVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY Claudia Orsetti INTERVIEW Karin Svadlenak Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link SHARE Italian Photographer Claudia Orsetti is an architect, but as long as she can remember has been photographing "things". She has lived in Switzerland, Tokyo, New York, and London, before moving to Amsterdam at the beginning of 2020. Photography for her is a way of knowing places and people and their stories, but also knowing herself. She is most interested in the "obvious things", the imprecise moments without expectations, the reality where you think there is nothing to see. She is attracted by contradictions and those often become the centre of her work. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett “I remember I printed it and hung it over my desk, when I was doing my master diploma and somehow it stuck with me in everything else afterwards. I am someone who jumps into the high water and just does. Sometimes...a little bit too fast! But I would say that this attitude of not being afraid of doing something (therefore potentially failing at it) has been proven to bring very interesting and unexpected turns in my life!” IN CONVERSATION WITH CLAUDIA ORSETTI THE PICTORIAL LIST: Claudia, when did you start getting interested in photography? CLAUDIA ORSETTI: Honestly, I don’t know...I don’t remember. I think it must have been at the beginning of highschool, my parents got me a camera for me to play around, but back then it was not a priority. I guess when I was around 20 and I started travelling for real, that was the switch: seeing realities so different from mine pushed me to somehow find a way to express what I was seeing. Photography was my way of telling back the stories of people and places I encountered. TPL: Where do you find your inspiration? CO: I find that a very difficult question and the most honest answer (probably also boring!) is that I find my inspiration everywhere. I am an eager observer and a good listener, and I think that is always the beginning of a story. So if by inspiration you mean how do I start any project, I would say that is it. TPL: Do you have any favourite artists or photographers you would like to share with us, and the reason for their significance? CO: I am in love with the photos of Luigi Ghirri and Guido Guidi. That minimalism way before the instagram square, which was almost ermetic is super poetic for me, and allows the viewer to complete the image the way he wants. I find incredible the frame cutting of Alex Webb, the genuine and disarming honesty of Sebastiao Salgado and the irony of Tony Ray Jones. TPL: Has your style of photographing changed since you first started? CO: Absolutely and necessarily. I’d like to think I constantly grow and evolve as a person, and that brings me to new perspectives and more banally new knowledge and technology. Therefore my focus on things shifts and so does the way I portray them. Also I believe that one develops a style through time; I think your own style is not just the same pinkish filter you add to your shots, it’s something deeper, an overarching theme or mood which at some point you’ll realize is your own. TPL: Where is your favourite place to photograph? CO: Iceland. I adore that place and I keep going back every other year. I just feel good there and I love driving so...it’s my perfect place. It’s surreal, primordial, moody, extreme, and it’s different every time. It is mainly about landscape obviously. I also love shooting on the streets, when travelling especially. Somehow my mind gets into a different dimension and I feel open and receptive to many more things, which consequently allows me to get closer to people and their stories. I am an eager observer and a good listener, and I think that is always the beginning of a story. TPL: What characteristics do you think you need to become a better photographer? What are your tips or advice for someone in your genre? CO: Be curious. Be open and generous, meaning be ready to open yourself up to others and listen, and let unexpected circumstances drive you on different paths that you haven’t considered. In that sense also be very resilient, be able to adapt and yet be stubborn in pursuing what you want. Allow a lot of time. Shooting is just a part of a photographic project, then you need time to reflect, to research, to think, to write perhaps, and most probably to shoot more. TPL: Do you think equipment is important in achieving your vision in your photography? What would you say to someone just starting out? CO: This is the classic tricky question as I guess everyone will tell you that a good photographer is good regardless of the equipment. It’s the mind and the eye that makes the photographer. Nonetheless, the right equipment does allow you to reach the level of expression that you aspire to, so yes it is important, but, if we reverse it, an amazing camera doesn’t make you a good photographer! To someone starting out I would say experiment and explore a lot. Try different cameras, old, new, film, digital, colour, b&w, anything. But do go out a lot to take a lot of pictures. That is essential. TPL: Have you ever been involved in the artistic world before photography? CO: Well, I am actually an architect by training, so yes! Although architecture is an incredible mix of science, art, technology, business, sociology, and communication. But hey....so is photography. TPL: Are there any special projects you are currently working on? CO: I’m currently working on a few things. One project is called IRAN IS PINK, and it is using the colour pink as a thread to talk about the women in Iran. Pink is a colour that has gone from being a symbol of fragile femininity to being punk and strong: it has become feminist. And the story starts on the Maharlu Lake, which is a salt lake (hence pink) south of Shiraz. The project is still evolving, not sure how, but will definitely become more rich than what it is now...at least I hope so! I’m also working on a self-published book called ORDINARY INTIMACY, which is a project born during the quarantine. Nothing to do with photos in the domestic environment...instead it is a collection of photos of ordinary things and moments without expectations, which I found by looking back into my archive. They were shots I didn’t remember, and lots of them I didn’t remember when or where I took them, but those things or moments were so ordinary, so easily identifiable, that you could project any similar memory into that. So that process became the project...which is also still in evolution! Last but not least a series called SUSPENDED, which is ongoing. TPL: “If I wasn't photographing what would I be doing? CO: As I said before, I am also an architect, so that is what I am actually doing together with photography! I’d like to be an event organizer, to be honest, which I do sometimes, but not professionally. Nonetheless I always say that if I had to choose something else completely, I would grow and sell plants and flowers. My house is a small jungle!” PORTFOLIO INSTAGRAM read more interviews >>> WHERE EMOTIONS BREATHE Simple encounters Irina Sedletskaya almost missed become photographs shaped by silence, distance, uncertainty, memory, hope, and resilience. THE VILLAGE A workers’ neighbourhood becomes a living archive as Virginia Cassano photographs the people, streets, and memories that continue to shape Villaggio Piaggio. MUTABLE MORPHOGENESIS By merging scientific methodologies with photographic experimentation, Emma Varga creates images that challenge fixed distinctions between human and non-human, visible and invisible. THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS Chad Coombs’ Polaroids are small psychological scenes where identity, memory, culture, and belief push against each other. WHERE WE BELONG Community storytelling lies at the heart of The Pictorial List’s mission, and Marlon Ramos’ photographs reflects the spirit of the place we now call home. GUIDED BY A WHISPER Guided by reflection and the quiet presence of art history, Isolda Fabregat Sanz makes photographs that resist certainty and invite the viewer to remain inside the act of looking. WHAT REMAINS, WHAT EMERGES Laetitia Heisler transforms risk, memory, and the body into layered analogue visions — feminist rituals of seeing that reveal what endures, and what quietly emerges beyond visibility. WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE DO Culture lives where art and community meet, and in this space Alejandro Dávila’s photographs reveal the unseen labor and devotion that sustain creation. ANALOGICAL LIMBO Nicola Cappellari reminds us that the photograph’s power lies not in what it shows, but in what it leaves unsaid. THREADS OF MOROCCAN LIFE Through gestures of work and moments of community, Kat Puchowska reveals Morocco’s overlooked beauty. IT STARTED AS LIGHT…ENDED IN SHIVERS… Between intimacy and estrangement, Anton Bou’s photographs wander — restless fragments of light and shadow, mapping the fragile terrain where self unravels into sensation. WITH EYES THAT LISTEN AND A HEART THAT SEES For decades, Rivka Shifman Katvan has documented the unseen backstage world of Broadway, capturing authenticity where performance and humanity intersect. DIPTYCH DIALOGUES Through the beautiful language of diptychs, Taiwanese photographer Jay Hsu invites us into a world where quiet images speak of memory, resilience, and hope. UNKNOWN ABYSSINIA In Ethiopia, Sebastian Piatek found a new way of seeing — where architecture endures, but women in motion carry the narrative forward. THE PULSE OF THE STREET Moments vanish, yet Suvam Saha holds them still — the pulse of India’s streets captured in fragments of life that will never repeat. WHAT DO WE WANT? More than documentation, David Gray reveals the human pulse of resistance and asks us to see beyond the surface of unrest. CRACKED RIBS 2016 Cynthia Karalla opens up about the art of survival, the power of perspective, and why she believes each of us holds a monopoly on our own narrative. STREETS OF KOLKATA Ayanava Sil’s reveals Kolkata’s soul, capturing moments with empathy, presence and humility while offering deep insight into both city and self. PERIPHERAL PLACES A project by Catia Montagna that distills fleeting encounters and spatial poetics into triptychs - visual short stories that capture the in-between, where meaning often hides. POINTE-AU-CHIEN IS NOT DEAD Through Wayan Barre’s documentary, we are invited not only to see but to feel the lived realities of a community standing at the crossroads of environmental collapse and cultural survival. QUEER HAPPENED HERE Author Marc Zinaman sheds light on the valuable contributions that LGBTQ+ individuals have made to the cultural and social fabric of New York City. TRACES OF TIME Marked by an ongoing visual dialogue with time, memory, and impermanence, Zamin Jafarov’s long-term projects highlight the quiet power of observation and the emotional depth of simplicity. THERE MY LITTLE EYES Guillermo Franco’s book is an exploration of seeing beyond the obvious. His work invites us to embrace patience, curiosity, and the unexpected in a world that often rushes past the details. VISUAL HEALING BEYOND THE DIAGNOSIS Betty Goh’s photography exemplifies the transformative power of visual storytelling, where personal adversity becomes a canvas for resilience, illuminating the connection between art, healing, and self-reclamation. EVERYDAY BLACKNESS Parvathi Kumar’s book is a profound tribute to the resilience, and contributions of incredible Black women from all walks of life, making it a vital addition to the conversation around International Women’s Month.

I'm a teacher and I'm living in Nice. I am interested in photography as a whole and have a varied approach, even if I turned particularly to street photography. The graphic composition, very constructed, sometimes bordering on abstraction, is part of what I seek and is found in all of my work, with the exception of a few very different series. Shadows, lines and abstract forms, materials have a language that speaks to me. I use the environment, most often urban, as a setting in front of which I try to compose stories, integrating small details. The human whose presence is not necessarily direct - it can be a silhouette, a shadow, a material - is lost, anonymous in the geometry drawn by the cities, the material or the color, both mutually influencing each other. Photography is an integral part of my life. "Eclipse": From an aesthetic point of view, the approach seeks the abstraction and geometry that shadow and colour can create in the city. Most of the photographs in this series were taken in Nice where the light is often bright, intense. In the narrow alleys of the old town, she draws bright canyons. Colorful facades and deep shadows combine to give birth to a geometric composition, sculpted by light. In front of this colorful and contrasting décor, sometimes on the edge of abstraction, I watch the fleeting shadows of passers-by who will emerge from the darkness to escape immediately. From a symbolic point of view, the series questions the transition from light to shade and the impact it engenders on the individual. Passers-by are nothing more than silhouettes, Chinese shadows: in the shadows they lose their identity, their peculiarities, their singularity. In the shadows, they become anonymous, they come out of the light of the city. FANNY GENOUX I'm a teacher and I'm living in Nice. I am interested in photography as a whole and have a varied approach, even if I turned particularly to street photography. The graphic composition, very constructed, sometimes bordering on abstraction, is part of what I seek and is found in all of my work, with the exception of a few very different series. Shadows, lines and abstract forms, materials have a language that speaks to me. I use the environment, most often urban, as a setting in front of which I try to compose stories, integrating small details. The human whose presence is not necessarily direct - it can be a silhouette, a shadow, a material - is lost, anonymous in the geometry drawn by the cities, the material or the color, both mutually influencing each other. Photography is an integral part of my life. "Eclipse": From an aesthetic point of view, the approach seeks the abstraction and geometry that shadow and colour can create in the city. Most of the photographs in this series were taken in Nice where the light is often bright, intense. In the narrow alleys of the old town, she draws bright canyons. Colorful facades and deep shadows combine to give birth to a geometric composition, sculpted by light. In front of this colorful and contrasting décor, sometimes on the edge of abstraction, I watch the fleeting shadows of passers-by who will emerge from the darkness to escape immediately. From a symbolic point of view, the series questions the transition from light to shade and the impact it engenders on the individual. Passers-by are nothing more than silhouettes, Chinese shadows: in the shadows they lose their identity, their peculiarities, their singularity. In the shadows, they become anonymous, they come out of the light of the city. LOCATION Nice FRANCE CAMERA/S Canon EOS 5D WEBSITE http://www.fannygenoux.com @FANNY.GENOUX FEATURES // Off Season Eclipse