Edward Olive is an English photographer and actor based in Madrid, Spain. Known for his distinctive fine art approach, Olive specialises in compelling people photography, blending commercial needs with classical artistic sensibilities. His work is characterised by a dramatic use of chiaroscuro (strong contrast between light and shadow), drawing inspiration from painting and cinema. 
 
He focuses on portraiture with actors, models, and artists, as well as capturing authentic human interaction in various settings. Olive's own background in performance allows him to connect deeply with his subjects, resulting in powerful images that reveal identity, vulnerability, and sustained presence. His photography is a pursuit of timeless forms and psychological depth, capturing the subject as both an individual and a piece of living sculpture.

Edward Olive

"Symbiotic Identity: The dual-exposure technique physically merges the young lady's face and form with the organic texture of flowers. This asks: Does the individual seek refuge or find resonance in nature? The body becomes a canvas for the ephemeral beauty of the natural world, symbolising how our interior, emotional landscape is enriched and complicated by organic forms."

"Young lady and flowers 1."

Metempsychosis, n. : transmigration of the human soul into a plant it comes to inhabit. 
 
Emotions become sap, memory disperses into light. Materials merge, textures meet, 
colours ignite, giving rise to a new dreamlike reality, vibrant and immersive.

"Filament de lumière #1."

Sophie Hériat (born 1991) graduated from UQAM (Montreal) as a director of photography, and 
from Gobelins (Paris) in production. After several years working as a colorist, she developed a 
refined and sensitive approach to color, which has become one of the central axes of her artistic research. She now divides her time between audiovisual production and photographic exploration. 
 
In her work, the artist pays close attention to detail and to the poetry of the moment - seeking what, within an image, reveals aspects of our humanity and emotions. She experiments with photography by interweaving textures, materials, and colors. Through the use of multiple exposures, she creates sensory abstractions. Her practice engages in a close dialogue with painting and drawing, which continually shape her exploration of form and visual resonance.

Sophie Hériat

Each creation carries within it the trace of a memory, an emotion, a lived moment - as if my images preserved a tangible imprint of time and feeling. They are no longer simply stories to be read, but territories to be inhabited. A personal world of colors, shadows, and flashes of light. In this journey, colour occupies a central place in my practice. It is an inexhaustible field of research, whose power often remains mysterious. Some hues repel one another, others attract, some erupt like a cry, others settle like a whisper. It is within these tensions, these resonances or dissonances, that my images find their rhythm and their poetry unfolds. Through experimentation, photography becomes a dialogue, a sensory vector, in which each viewer may surrender, lose themselves for a moment, and - perhaps recognise a reflection of themselves: ever-vibrant, ever in search.

"Rhizomes écarlates #3."

Purely descriptive, figurative images, when they attempt to express our inner emotions, can sometimes come up against a wall. I use multiple exposure and movement as tools to create beyond these boundaries, composing a world of its own. A world that, to me, retains something of what I experience during the creative process. I capture fleeting moments before reworking them in order to explore a sensory pictoriality. By blurring the boundaries between photography and painting, between figuration and abstraction, I offer a different field of perception. Within this experimental approach, nature is not merely a subject: it becomes a space for projection and metamorphosis. Flowers, omnipresent in my work, form fragments of a visual poetry in the making.

"Rhizomes écarlates #1."

"Young lady and flower 2."

"My journey with photography began when I was seven, when I first experienced the magic of the darkroom and the quiet wonder of black-and-white film. From the beginning, I felt that photography was more than capturing images, it was a way to preserve what is fleeting and forgotten. Over time, my aesthetic has taken shape around contrast: light and shadow, presence and absence, fiction and reality. Self taught photographer from Hamburg, Germany."

The Monochromatic Society

"As I wander around, carrying stacks of shots, some lingering symbols meet me again and again. Motion blur and fog, the loyal shutter and abandoned compositions are present before me. The shadows arrange themselves, even in the light of a broken cycle sun. I aimed to evoke memory rather than documentation by allowing forms to drift in and out of focus, creating an intimate, fleeting impression rather than a fixed reality. The frames reveal a kaleidoscopic logic rather than a linear story; feelings break apart, reshape, and reassemble into a meaning that is continually renegotiated."

"Rays of Sunday’s hope."

"It All Came Out In The Wash."

Christina Howells is an American photographer in Athens, Georgia. Her subjects are mainly objects or interiors with a strong use of colour with a surrealist style.

Christina Howells

"We Need To Talk."

"Born in 1963 in Bad Gandersheim / Germany. Studied fine art at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover, the University of the Arts in Braunschweig and the Facultad de Bellas Artes in Barcelona. During her studies, she focused primarily on sculpture and painting. After graduating, she switched to sound art and installation. Graduated as a master student in 2000 with Ulrich Eller in the field of sound installation with the theme “NachForschung”. In 2010, entry into digital photography, mainly macro shots of plants. Since then, commissioned work in exhibition photography and freelance artistic photography."

Sabine Winnemuth

"Energy is released, and restructuring, metamorphosis and transformation become possible. The way is paved for a better perception of the essence of the situation, the emotion that is generated by what is seen. The submitted photographs were taken with a Leica Q2 (28mm fixed focal length) and processed only with a RAW converter (Adobe Lightroom). The pictures are printed as unique pieces on satin and stretched on an aluminium profile frame. This gives the pictures a rather painterly appearance."

"New York."

"In my latest photographic works, I devote myself to reproducing the dimension of time in the two-dimensional representation of a photograph by showing the changes in the temporal sequence of a particular scene. My aim in this type of photography is not to create as perfect an image as possible of what I see, but to creatively change what I see with the help of the camera. In this way, seemingly fixed structures are broken up and dissolved, fixed edges are shifted and colours are mixed. The subject is dissolved in light and colour, the condensation of matter is dissolved."

"Leipzig."

"Berlin."

"Between Here and Now" emerges from an ongoing struggle with existential doubt and depression. It asks what remains meaningful when connection feels increasingly artificial. Through attention to presence, beauty, and shared vulnerability, the work offers a gentle invitation to inhabit the moment."

"Through the Looking Glass."

Charles Lu is a Chinese Filipino photographer born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He graduated from the General Studies program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City in 2009. 
 
His work has received recognition within both photographic and fashion context, highlighting an approach rooted in color, atmosphere, and narrative. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Caci, and their dog, Mila.

Charles Lu

"Wabi-sabi (Portrait of a Grand Canyon)."

"This Too Shall Pass."

Max Cavitch is a photographer, writer, and teacher in Philadelphia. His photographs have been published in magazines including Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Amsterdam Quarterly, Blue Mesa Review, Denver Quarterly, Feral, F-Stop, L’Esprit, Phoebe, Politics/Letters, and Salt Hill Journal and have been most recently exhibited at Art Room Gallery, Biennale di Senigallia, Blank Wall Gallery, Boomer Gallery, Chania International Photo Festival, Decagon Gallery, Decode Gallery, Glasgow Gallery, Pagus Gallery, Praxis Photo Arts Center, and Ten Moir Gallery. His work is currently represented by Haze Gallery and Artsy.net.

Max Cavitch

"Leinwand: Wien 96."

"Leinwand: Wien 275."

"Photography has been by my side since I was very young. Still, after school I decided to study and work in marketing first. But after some years of working, I decided to study arts. So I studied Multimedia Arts at LMU Munich, where I learned about many creative fields. Professionally, I work as a 3D artist, but in my free time I am a street photographer. I practiced street photography while in school, at university, during my time in marketing, and I continue to do so now. Thankfully, studying Multimedia Arts has helped me grow in terms of creative thinking and also sparked my interest in pursuing photography more seriously. Hence, I want to show my work in galleries. I had the privilege of working for artists such as the late Vesna Petresin in the past as a 3D artist, and this motivated me greatly. But my true passion as an artist is photography, as it is the medium through which I can express my artistic vision best."

Tobias Biber

"My work explores how people move through urban space and how movement gives meaning to structures that would otherwise feel static. Long-exposure photography has been my medium for a while now. Portraying people in the street with the highest level of detail has never been my interest. It is also not the only meaning of street photography; portraying the rhythm we share as a community is equally important. While street photography is often perceived as documentary and rather rough, I would like to show in these images the playfulness that can be found in the reality we move through every day. Colours are an important part of everyday life. They convey emotions and, in my opinion, can influence them, like a good song. While taking these photos, the colourful structures gave me a cheerful, childlike mood. I like to imagine that the people I portrayed, and everyone else present, felt the same."

"Woman on Coloured Ground."

Frankie Xi is a photographer based in the United States. His work focuses on preserving emotion and memory. 
 
"In this series, colour is given space to lead quietly rather than loudly. Each image holds colour in a different, restrained way: light and muted tones are contained within a glass surface, softened behind layers of darkness, or dissolving into the movement of a figure. As forms lose clarity, colour remains. It carries the feeling of the moment when detail begins to fade, becoming closer to memory than observation. Here, colour becomes the subject not through intensity, but through quiet persistence - a presence that holds emotion when visibility weakens."

Frankie Xi

"Fading Presence."

"Held In Shadow."

"Quiet Containment."

"Born in Caracas, Venezuela (1968) with Croatian roots. Audiovisual Communicator (1993) with a Master in Philosophy (2000). Passionate about photography since childhood. Based in Zagreb, Croatia since 2019, where I started my research and colour interventions. My palette aims to convey joy, rhythm and dynamism. I mainly use mixed media (spray paint, acrylics, markers) on diverse surfaces (canvas, wood, paper, aluminum, printed photography)."

Daniela Mihaljevic

"Warhol pink."

"Violescent."

"My work is abstract and it focuses on colour and its interactions, whether through juxtaposition, simultaneity, or planes of depth. I’m interested in chromatic transitions that question the immateriality of colour. My research focuses on the possibility of “thinking in colour”. I am interested in connecting with the viewer by generating rhythmic movement in their gaze. This dynamism is intended to motivate the viewer's vision between a chromatic explosion and a structural sketch, in a play between the two, in a visual journey between foreground and background, through planes of depth. Nature has been my main inspiration in photography and painting. Especially colours and their imperceptible transitions, their constant change and their abstract appearance."

"Vermilion."

Isaac Soto is a Mexican photographer whose work moves between street, product, and conceptual photography. His practice explores the beauty of everyday chaos and the poetry hidden in ordinary moments.

Ignacio Isaac Soto

"I am drawn to what cannot be controlled: moments, gestures, streets, and fragments of everyday life that exist between order and chaos. Photography, for me, is a way of slowing down time and paying attention to what usually goes unnoticed. My work emerged from commercial and product photography, but gradually shifted toward street and analog practices. This transition reflects a personal search for authenticity in an environment saturated with fast and disposable images. Shooting analog is not nostalgia - it is resistance against immediacy and a way to reconnect with curiosity and sensitivity. I see each photograph as a small narrative: sometimes intimate, sometimes universal, always incomplete. Rather than documenting reality, I romanticise it, transforming ordinary scenes into visual fragments that invite contemplation instead of certainty."

"De Fiestas, Taxco, México."

In this collection, colour flows across surface and space, structuring perception and creating dynamic interplay within each image. Subtle tonal shifts, contrasting textures, and the modulation of light reveal multiple layers of meaning.

The photographs oscillate between stillness and movement, surface and depth, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in rhythm, nuance, and atmosphere. Colour becomes a conduit for reflection, allowing moments of emotion, memory, and sensation to emerge through visual experience. The collection demonstrates how photography can make visible what often remains imperceptible, offering both insight and wonder.

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