Olga Rerbo is a photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. Born in Russia and raised in Belarus, she later lived in Israel before moving to Australia in 2023. Her practice focuses primarily on film photography, female portraiture, self-portraiture, and the documentation of personal and everyday experience. 
 
"My work explores self-portraiture as a way of observing personal change and preserving moments that might otherwise disappear. I use the camera to document my body, surroundings, relationships, motherhood, travel, and experiences of migration and loss. The photographs are not created as performances or idealised representations of the self. They emerge from ordinary life and often reflect a particular emotional or physical state. Through self-portraiture, I am both the person making the image and the person being observed."

Olga Rerbo

"Working mainly with film allows uncertainty, distance, and time to become part of the process. I cannot fully control how the image will appear, and this gap between intention and result often reveals something unexpected. Each photograph becomes a record of a temporary version of myself and an attempt to preserve a moment before it changes."

"Disappearing Face."

José Franco is a Mexican fine art photographer and founder of Atelier Photo de Franco. 
 
Beginning his journey at the age of seven, he belongs to the last generation of committed analogue film practitioners while also serving as an early adopter of digital technologies. 
 
Photography is, for him, a profound passion, a form of meditation, and an essential part of his life. Open to all genres, his core interest lies in the sculptural interplay of shape, light, and human emotion. He works predominantly in dramatic chiaroscuro, creating psychologically resonant images with artisanal patience and reverence. 
 
"Since first picking up a camera at seven years old, photography has been my constant companion - a meditative bridge between the analogue rituals of my youth and the digital landscape I embraced early on."

José Franco

"At Atelier Photo de Franco, I remain open to all genres yet return always to the fundamentals that captivate me: the poetry of shape, the drama of light, and the raw pulse of human emotion. Working in chiaroscuro, I sculpt form from darkness, transforming fleeting moments into timeless images. The geometric knot in my atelier’s logo symbolises the infinite, unbreakable bond between photographer, subject, and light. My work seeks depth and intention, offering moments of recognition and quiet revelation across cultures." 
 
"A childlike knitted toy rests precariously atop a beanie while a cigarette smoulders in hand. The contrast between playful innocence and a weathered gaze captures the tension between nostalgia and lived experience. Through chiaroscuro, this self-portrait meditates on memory as both burden and remnant."

"Vessel I: Memory’s Weight."

Tianzuo Zhang is a street and documentary photographer based in Beijing, China. Working mainly in black-and-white with high-contrast light, he photographs the quiet, in-between moments of urban life - solitary figures, fleeting gestures, and the tension between people and the city around them. 
 
His practice is rooted in the tradition of the "decisive moment" and draws on both East Asian visual sensibility and the raw spontaneity of street photography. 
 
"My work looks for the moments when a person becomes a silhouette, a fragment, or a presence half-seen. I am drawn to faces behind glass, gestures interrupted, and figures standing alone in pools of light and shadow. Shooting on the streets and edges of the city, I try to hold on to the feeling of being a hidden observer - close enough to feel the moment, distant enough to let it keep its mystery. These three images explore identity, solitude, and the fragile line between being seen and being known."

Tianzuo Zhang

"The camera is no longer a tool I hold, but a second eye grown into my face - to see is a quiet conspiracy of machine and flesh."

"My Lens, My Eyes."

Inela Kovacevic is a Serbian-born photographer, art historian, and international art educator currently living and working in Asia. She has been working exclusively with analog photography and exploring traditional and alternative film processes since 2018. 
 
Having lived across Europe and Asia, she uses photography as a form of visual research into the secular ecology of the places she inhabits and the communities that shape them. Her work, rooted in street photography, explores the tension between memory, belonging, and individuality through mundane everyday rituals, public and domestic spaces, and shared traditions. Through her practice, she seeks to preserve both tangible and intangible cultural heritage while examining how identity is formed within and across communities.

Inela Kovačević

"Protest ready selfie, Belgrade."

Elliott Mahony is a self-taught Photographer inspired by music and the nonconformity within himself; choosing to shoot his work using 35mm and digital formats in black and white to provoke feeling in his work. 
 
Currently based in Norfolk, he is exploring the surreal and macabre in cemeteries and portraits, always searching for opportunities to capture the undertones of life (and death).

Elliott Mahony

"I refuse to fit into the human-sized shape carved into this earth and use my art to express all the emotions outside of it. I want people to feel the work, more than deconstruct it."

"Vulnerable."

"I dreamed of you, Transylvania."

"I am a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Rotterdam with Transylvanian roots, and drawn to poetry and light within the complexities of cultural identity and displacement. My work captures quiet, nostalgic moments and explores stories that reflect the ongoing search for belonging, where personal and collective experiences intersect."

Katalin

Vera Rubin

"Rather than documenting events, I try to preserve atmospheres, emotions, and memories. Self-portraiture has become an important part of my work, allowing me to explore vulnerability, identity, and my relationship with the world around me. Alongside photography, painting offers another way of approaching the same ideas. Through both mediums, I create personal visual diaries that reflect on solitude, intimacy, nature, and the passing of time. More than telling a story, I hope my work invites the viewer to slow down, look closely, and connect with their own memories and emotions."

"Hollow."

Elena Kurka is a painter and photographer based in Spain, working mainly with analogue photography. Her work explores solitude, memory, femininity, and self-portraiture through a quiet and intimate approach. Inspired by nature, travel, and the people around her, she photographs moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed. 
 
Moving between photography and painting, she creates personal visual diaries that reflect on emotion, presence, and the passing of time.

Elena Kurka

"Photography is my way of paying attention to the world and little things around me. Working mainly with analogue photography, I am interested in the quiet moments that often go unnoticed, like changing light, the presence of a person, a landscape, or the feeling of being alone without feeling lonely."

"Still aching."

Nathalie Deschacht is a Belgian photographer driven by a deep fascination with people and the stories they carry. She sees every individual as a unique world shaped by personal history, ancestry, emotions, and lived experience. 
 
Through photography, Nathalie explores the subtle connections between identity, place, memory, and feeling. Her work often moves between portraiture and self-portraiture, creating a space where questions of belonging, vulnerability, and human connection can emerge. Constantly questioning what lies beneath the visible surface, she seeks to translate emotions and inner experiences into visual form. 
 
Her photographs invite viewers to slow down, reconnect with their senses, and engage with the world through empathy and curiosity. In a time when many people experience disconnection and fragmentation, Nathalie’s work searches for the invisible threads that bind us together and remind us of our shared humanity.

Nathalie Deschacht

"My name is Nathalie, and this year I turn 42. As a portrait photographer, I usually prefer being behind the camera, capturing others. For this project, 4/2, I stepped in front of the lens for the first time. I see 42, as the title suggests, as a turning point in my life. I cycled along the River Leie, which cuts through my city in two like the line between 4 and 2. Following its source became a journey to reconnect with myself, rediscover who I am, and begin this new chapter. The photograph carries a subtle tension, less visible more felt, reflecting the uncertainty, vulnerability, and anticipation that accompany personal transformation."

"3."

Boglárka Tímea Técsi is a Hungarian visual artist and graphic designer from Romania, currently based in Budapest, where she is completing an MA in Object Design at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). 
 
Working across photography, editorial design, and object-based practice, she moves between disciplines while returning to the same underlying questions: how places retain memory, how materials carry experience, and how seemingly ordinary details can become charged with meaning.

Boglárka Tímea Técsi

"I am interested in photographs that resist immediate reading. My practice moves between two registers: an attentiveness to overlooked fragments of everyday reality, elevated through framing and sustained attention alone; and a more experimental impulse, where new visual planes emerge from reality itself, allowing the familiar to tip momentarily into something strange, ambiguous, or almost otherworldly. Across both, I look for a brief pause, an invitation to look again and notice what might otherwise remain unseen."

"Self-Study."

Tuğçe Işık is an Istanbul-based cultural writer, visual narrator, and documentary photographer. With a background in brand management, her work explores atmosphere, memory, everyday rituals, and the traces people leave behind in the spaces they inhabit.

Tuğçe Işık

"I am drawn to the quiet details that reveal a human presence beyond appearance. Through everyday gestures, familiar routines, empty spaces, and fleeting encounters, I explore how people leave traces of themselves in the world around them. Rather than documenting events, my work looks for atmosphere, memory, and the subtle moments where presence can still be felt, even in absence."

"Threshold."

" I am a hobby photographer from Erlangen, Germany. I started photography during my apprenticeship as a media designer, then took a long break for several years. But I fell in love with it again."

Dorian Reinlein

"I wanted to do that kind of self-portrait for a long time, never thought I'd be able to. It's a portrait of despair and the feelings and thoughts that come with it. A look inside my head at that moment, but the main "head" is just in pure despair, not able to do something except for burying his head."

"A portrait of despair."

"My interest in photography began at home in Croatia: through photography as a form of memory and by observing my father document family life. Later, it was through cinema that I shaped my understanding of images and visual storytelling. I bought my first analogue camera and began photographing my surroundings, the Adriatic summer, my friends, and my travels. It was only after moving to Iceland and taking time off for health reasons that my approach to photography began to change. Since then, I have developed a more intentional relationship with the medium, both personally and creatively. My work is drawn to symmetry, lines, textures, light, and the scenes of everyday life; I also like to experiment with the craft. I am self-taught & introduced to the darkroom process; I primarily work with analogue cameras, including the Olympus MjuI, Nikon L35AF, and Canon A-1, and sometimes the Olympus Twin, which I borrow from my dear friend."

Mihaela Cenkovčan

"Living in a Nordic country can be challenging. After the midnight sun comes a long, dark winter, often shaped by snowstorms and very strong winds. One appreciates every sunny moment to connect and feel that yellow warmth on the face. The skin becomes happier and healthier; so does the mind."

"Vitamin D / Morning Skincare Routine in Iceland."

Victor Hugo

Stephanie Hsu is a narrative-driven photographer whose work transforms everyday emotions and quiet moments into poetic visual stories. She believes that every life carries meaning worth telling, and uses light and shadow to reveal silent emotions, fleeting time, and the authentic inner worlds of her subjects. 
 
She keeps trying to draw from her own lived experiences, translating personal memory and introspection into imagery that explores themes of identity, presence, and human connection. Her work invites viewers to pause, breathe, and find resonance within stillness - connecting with moments that speak softly but linger deeply.

Stephanie Chih-Wei Hsu

"By working with movement, reflective surfaces, and indirect forms, I approach self-portraiture as a process of searching rather than declaring."

"Between Surfaces."

Yoan Segot is a French-born multidisciplinary artist. With a base in London, he spends most of his time travelling Europe in his mobile studio. Working across animation, music, writing and analogue photography, his practice is rooted in travel as a form of enquiry. 
 
His current project, Puer to Senex, documents a solo van journey from the UK to Nordkapp, Arctic Norway - a psychogeographic memoir exploring psychological transformation through landscape, movement, and the Jungian arc toward second adulthood. He shoots on a Holga 120N. The imprecision is intentional.

Yoan Segot

"I did not set out to take a self-portrait. I pointed the Holga at my own face in the dark of the van, somewhere in Scandinavia, and this is what came back. I am barely there. Half-dissolved, half-emerging. The darkness holds more of the frame than I do. Only the hair has any certainty. The face is something the light is still deciding about. That felt accurate. The entire journey was about that threshold: not knowing yet who I was becoming, only that something was shifting. The camera caught what I couldn't have staged: a self in the process of, not a self arrived. The brief says the self-portrait is a meeting point between how one appears and how one is momentarily held by the camera. This image held me at the moment I was least formed. That is why I kept it."

"Self."

Paul Strand

Eian Hazzard is a photographer and filmmaker. Born to an African American mother and Trinidadian father, he spent the majority of his youth in Charleston, South Carolina. 
 
Eian has had his photographic work featured in several publications including F-Stop magazine, PhotoEd magazine, as well as Synkroniciti magazine. Eian has also been exhibited both nationally and internationally in various group exhibitions. He currently resides in Georgia.

Eian Hazzard

"While the images I have uploaded are not part of a collective series, they each share something in common. That link is their exploration of the self, specifically through analog photography. I see "Box of Nostalgia" as an analysis of the self through the lens of personal history. I view "Self-Refraction" as an exploration of identity through creative expression."

"Box of Nostalgia."

"Self-Refraction."

"At the border of two worlds - inner and outer - a fragile self-portrait emerges, woven from reflections, light, and chance. Glass becomes not a barrier, but a transparent membrane between man and nature. The forest behind dissolves the contours of the figure, interweaving it with the green shimmer of a summer day, while the camera's reflection recalls the act of observation itself. The photograph tells not so much about the person as about a moment of introspection: the author is simultaneously present in the frame and hidden behind it. Soft sunlight blurs the boundaries of reality, transforming an everyday scene into a meditative image where memory, gaze, and the surrounding world exist in a single layer. This work is about how we search for ourselves - not in direct reflection, but in the intersection of light, time, and space."

Andrey Bolshakov

"Self-portrait in reflected summer."

"I am an Athens-born multidisciplinary artist with a background in interior and industrial design (AKTO), fashion design, and Theory and History of Art (Athens School of Fine Arts). My practice centres on multimedia installations and sculpture, employing found objects, ready-made materials, fabric, photography, and video. Textile waste and material recycling are integral to my process  giving discarded things new form and context. I use gender as an analytical lens to interrogate politics, language, immigration, sexuality, violence, labour, and war. These themes feel urgent; art offers a space to hold their contradictions without easy answers."

Alexandra Apsokardou

"This self-portrait, taken on analogue instant film, belongs to an ongoing body of work exploring the intersection of the personal and the political. Shot in urban Athens, the image places the body in dialogue with its environment - graffiti on a wall becomes an involuntary backdrop, turning a private moment into a public statement. I work with analogue photography, particularly the Polaroid format, for its immediacy, its imperfection, and its resistance to digital manipulation. The instant image carries a physical weight that digital cannot replicate - it exists as an object, not just a file. My portraits are not constructed. I am interested in the unguarded moment, the face that has not yet decided what to show. In this image, the overexposed light, the tight crop, and the found text create a tension between vulnerability and witness - the subject looks back, aware of being seen."

"Untitled."

Meaghan McCallum, resides in her hometown of Homer, Alaska. Her work is inspired by the Alaskan wilderness and the small moments that make up everyday life.

Meaghan McCallum

"Apathy."

"My work can best be described as a photo journal with a focus on self portraits. Shooting on a mixture of 35mm and digital, I use my camera to document my life and as tool to process my internal world."

"Lost."

Since its earliest development, photography has included the self as subject. The camera was used not only to record surroundings, but to explore identity through experiment, necessity, and curiosity. Early self-portraits, made through mirrors and prolonged exposure, placed it within the foundations of the medium.

A portrait is not only descriptive, but a record of a moment before the camera. A self-portrait preserves that moment, and the person as they were in that second.