"Laguna de Salinas."

Michael Eckart has spent significant time in Japan, Bali, and other parts of Asia, but Venice now feels like home. 
 
From a young age, he aspired to be a photographer or designer, always drawn to creativity. However, these passions did not take center stage in his career until much later. 
 
In the 1960s, he began designing window displays and creating objects for visual merchandising. 
 
During this time, MoMA requested some of his designs for an exhibition on contemporary design in New York. By the late 1980s, the scale of his creations changed as he transitioned into jewelry design, working with materials such as buffalo horn, bone, and especially sterling silver. 
 
From 2004 to 2006, he exhibited his jewelry in Paris, where he was awarded the Étoiles de Mode for Best Design three consecutive times. 
 
His jewelry gained widespread recognition, with features in prestigious publications such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and others. 
 
In 2016, his son gifted him an old camera.

Michael Eckart

"Arrakis is a hellworld. Its climate is one of torrid heat, frigid cold, and every temperature extreme between. It has two suns - Canopus and a smaller, more distant secondary. This combination produces a greenhouse effect that makes the planet a furnace by day and a deep freeze by night. There is no surface water. All moisture is locked in the polar caps or in deep, underground reservoirs. The air is so dry it sucks the moisture from your body with every breath." 
 
– Duke Leto Atreides, initial planetary assessment. 
 
"On 16 January 2025, David Lynch passed away, and the two suns of the planet Arrakis burned out. Lynch was the legendary filmmaker behind the first novel in Frank Herbert’s epic six-part Dune series, which was published in 1965. David Lynch lives on through films such as Dune and many others. In 2015, I took this iconic photo of the twin suns of Arrakis on Fuerteventura. Ten years later, its publication is intended as a tribute to David Lynch."

"Canopus."

Brigitte currently lives in Switzerland. She is a self-taught photographer, started shooting as a child inspired by her grandfather whose name she chose to bear as her artist’s name to honour him. 
 
She shot with a film camera for years be it color or black and white, spent hours developing her films in a dark room. In her twenties she travelled around the globe taking her camera along and thus gained great experience especially in landscape and street life photography. 
 
Being reasonable instead of listening to her passion she studied medicine and is still partly working as a medic. Though after a life changing event she had more time for herself and the passion for photography came back stronger than ever. Still taken mostly by landscape and street life photography but also starting to experiment with other approaches.

Brigitte B Burckhardt

"I was looking at the sky, like I often do, lost in thought, contemplating. The multiple blues fascinated me. I was happy to have my camera with me, like always. It’s the story of "Blues."

"Blues."

Our Sky

"I’m Diego Navarro, an Argentine photographer living in Boston with over 20 years of experience. I specialized in fashion, street, and now landscape photography, with a fine art and abstract approach.  My work was showcased in both national and international exhibitions. My photography has also been featured in publications throughout the Boston area."

Diego Navarro

"Aurora signifies dawn - the quiet start of a new day, a chance for growth and reflection. Sunrise, with its promise of renewal, brings light after darkness, offering hope and a fresh perspective. This work reflects the idea that true renewal comes when we pause, observe, and allow ourselves to be present. Nature has its rhythm, and we are part of a cycle that’s been unfolding long before us. In this stillness, we are reminded that we are passengers on a journey, witnessing a process far greater than ourselves, a reminder of the peace found in simplicity."

"Freedom Dream."

Jean Guy Lathuilière also uses particular and primitive shooting and printing  techniques: camera obscura equipped with a pinhole, simple camera povera, SLR camera. He has adopted printing techniques such as gum bichromate, salted paper and platinum-palladium prints, mainly favouring experimental research. As photography is part of his everyday world, he has focused part of his work on thematic series, seeking to deliver an unusual vision of the world in a resolutely intimate light. JG Lathuilière's photographs have been exhibited and published in France and abroad. They also feature in public and private collections.

"Early Moon #207."

"After a long period of passionate relationship with the image, I know without doubt more clearly why and how this idyll came about, and with what intensity the spell continued to hold me so durably captive, deprived of any will to break this freely consented dependence. I had discovered quite early on the truths of etymology and the obviously logical reasons for creating a word to designate a new science or a new practice. This revelation, the true meaning of the word photography, plunged me into a deep reverie: photography, the art of writing with light... Is there no more beautiful ink than light? Is there no stranger paradox than that which describes the mutation of a limpid, dazzling wave into an obscure flux, deposited furtively, magically on the sheet and engraved in platinum or silver salts? The reverie persisted and I became a photographer."

Jean Guy Lathuilière

Galileo Galilei

Vera Rubin

"I am a photographer and architecture student based in Greece. My work focuses on disability and chronic pain, where I seek to capture the complexities of living with these realities and the connections found within that shared experience."

Aris Karliotis

"When this project was conceived, I had already been documenting the sky every day for six months. This daily consistency was vital, because it allowed me to observe the subtle transitions between one day and the next. The work transformed from a collection of images into a unified project when I began placing them side by side. In that sequence, I recognised a parallel to chronic pain, something metaphysical, persistent, and impossible to quantify. By looking upward, I realised that my work didn't have to be a direct study of my body. Instead, I began to rethink my relationship with the forces I cannot control or fully understand. Through "Wait for Silence", I invite the viewer to observe these natural patterns and their timing. Through my perspective, I hope to spark a conversation on how we perceive the experience of chronic pain."

"Wait for Silence."

"My name is Elle Paradisis, a photographer based in the Hilltops region of rural NSW. After rediscovering my passion in 2025, I now use my work to share how I see the world - moment by moment, story by story. As a disabled and neurodivergent artist, I’m committed to celebrating the beauty of disabled and neurodivergent individuals, while also revealing the quiet strengths and hidden light within everyone I photograph. I enjoy different genres to keep my brain engaged and to bring out my own way of seeing the world."

Elle Paradisis

"The neurodivergent mind is a thing of wonder even to its owner. To reveal a layer of the world that is not obvious is my passion. Whether it be seeing the potential of leaf and tree nut to transform into an insect, revealing the inner beauty of people they may not see themselves or putting an image to one's inner struggle. From landscapes to portraits to creative works I explore the world around me through my neurodivergent eyes. Through photography I showcase many emotions such as Joy ,sadness, wonder, confusion and many more as emotion is a powerful thing that links us, neurodivergent or not."

"As the Sky Closed in."

"Nature has always been my biggest source of inspiration; finding magic in the everyday. I capture my surroundings, transforming them into otherworldly visions. Through my lens, reality becomes a canvas for imagination, where the familiar is given new life and the mundane becomes surreal. Over the years I became a firm believer of always being curious, experimental and using play as my highest form of research."

"Divine Intervention II."

Coming from a visual background, Alia always found comfort and freedom in the visual arts. To her, it’s when everything pauses, the stillness of time and space and she’s left all alone with no distractions. A Saudi national born and raised in Egypt, Alia works as a freelancer in Videography and Photography and Co-founded a Visual Arts collective with her university friends (Shufna Collective), exploring the world of photo/video collage and manipulation. 
 
As a visual artist, Alia uses both digital and analog photography to inspire and help her explore various mediums to express herself. Alia has also showcased her work in multiple exhibitions (both online and in person) as an individual artist and as part of her collective (Shufna Collective). She exhibited with an online platform that highlights Analog photography, called Analog Forever Magazine (2021-2024). 
 
She also exhibited with Gulf photo plus in Dubai (2021), Al Hoosh Gallery in Qatar (2025) and Editions Art Space in Qatar (2025)

Alia El Sewedy

"Divine Intervention I."

"Divine Intervention III."

Victor Hugo

Kylo-Patrick Hart is an award-winning photographer (Budapest International Foto Awards, European Photography Awards, Global Photography Awards, Golden Shot International Photography Awards, London Photography Awards, Pollux Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, etc.) and chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas, USA). 
 
He received his formal training in digital media arts while a student at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, with additional instruction provided by offerings of the Maine Media Workshops and Santa Fe Workshops. 
 
His photographs have been exhibited in numerous cities throughout the United States and in several countries abroad.

Kylo-Patrick Hart

"Photography has been my passion since early childhood. My motivation is to discover and capture the beauty, even when it is not always readily self-evident, that surrounds us continuously in all areas of our everyday lives. I believe the finest images are those that are serious yet playful, aesthetically appealing yet a bit quirky. As both an artist and an admirer, my favorite photographs tend to be ones whose contents speak loudly for themselves, even when it is not immediately clear exactly what they are saying. They seek to inspire their viewers to wrestle with their intriguing contents and, as a result, ponder various aspects of our surrounding world in new and unique ways."

"Afternoon Sky."

Karen Safer is an international, award-winning California photographic artist, writer and poet. 
 
As a native Angelino, she was given a camera and crayons at 3 and exposed to dominant California motifs: light, palm trees, the ocean, music and vernacular architecture that helped define and influence her left-handed aesthetic.

Karen Safer

"Gas Clouds Over Faroe."

"To me, the sky and the horizon are inseparable. The vastness of these two elements, their immediate interweaving, has fascinated me since childhood. As a little girl, I would watch the clouds with my friends and wonder if I could ever capture their fleeting beauty. At the same time, I was driven by curiosity: What might lie beyond the horizon? To this day, I feel that childlike wonder in my visual language - whether in wild clouds breaking against a insurmountable horizon of grasses, or in formations of birds that animate the sky and enchant me with their freedom. A flock of birds transforms the sky into a particularly aesthetic space, embracing everything that ventures into it, even something as mundane as a construction scaffold."

Helga Bahmer

"Grasscloud."

"Skyconstruction."

"Sunset, with the locals."

"I'm a French-Canadian photographer. I discovered film photography in 2023 when I started traveling. Since then, my cameras have become a way for me to capture memories of my trips in an artistic way, allowing me to share them with others. Over time, this passion has grown, and this year I have had the opportunity to exhibit my work several times in Canada and New York, as well as to be published in a photography magazine. I would like to continue sharing this passion as widely as possible. In this series, the sky is the key element in each photo, whether it is a spectacle bringing together a crowd in the mountains of the Philippines (photo #1), a habitat for sacred condors attracting tourists (photo #2), or its own reflection in a salt lake in the Andes (photo #3). All of the work is film photography."

Maxim Tardiveau

"The show of the condor."

The sky is both constant and vast, a presence that touches all our lives. Though our paths may diverge and our experiences differ, we all share this expanse above us, a common horizon that reminds us of our connection to one another. Its changing light, the movement of clouds, and the stars at night are simple yet powerful reminders that, despite distance or difference, we inhabit the same world.

To look upward is to pause and reflect, to recognise both our individuality and our shared humanity. The sky quietly affirms that, wherever we are, we are connected by something larger than ourselves, a common space that belongs to us all.