Photography Exhibition THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE - 7th Edition
“THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE” Online Photography Exhibitions 7th edition, at Tati Space Photography Center
THE PRESENTATION
7th edition of the Online Photo Exhibitions with the theme:
THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE
We are pleased to present the 7-th edition of the Online Photography Exhibitions at Tati Space Photography Center, with the Theme THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE.
Black and White Photography is the oldest form of photography. And yet it remains very modern, as it offers different interpretations. Some artists appreciate it because in the absence of colors, black and white photography is more powerful to convey emotions. Others use monochrome photography to go back in time and evoke memories. Other artists use it for purely aesthetic and graphic reasons, as black and white photography offers strong contrasts and many tonalities of shades.
We are happy that to our invitation have been responded many artists from different parts of the world: USA, UK, Canada, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Israel, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, India, Chine, Brazil, among others. From a large number of submissions 245, we have selected 58 authors. Their photographs are categorized in 3 Categories ARCHITECTURE, PEOPLE, PLACES.
We hope you enjoy them all!
Curator
Alketa Misja
Tatì Space Center
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THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE Online Photography Exhibitions 7th edition
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Author: Bia Serranoni
Country: Brasil
Museum Series – Louvre. Location: Paris
Museum Series – MAC. Location: Niteroi /Rio de Janeiro
Museum Series – MAR. Location: Rio de Janeiro
Museum Series – Soumaya. Location: Mexico City
The Museum Series, is based on capturing clippings of the architecture of important museums around the world, whose architecture is a significant part of the city's landscape, which often also characterizes them as a work beyond their function as a space. The series is also intended to highlight what might otherwise go unnoticed by the hurried eye.
Links of the author:
Website:https://biaserranoni.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biaserranonifotografia/
Author: Dan Bucko
Country: USA
Title of Series: “Exoskeleton”
Photo 1: “Curves and Spires”
Photo 2: “Illuminessence and Reflections”
Photo 3: “Layers”
Photo 4: “Sharp Angles”
Place: Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA
Description: Bathed in the soft glow of reflected light, the Walt Disney Concert Hall rises like a symphony in steel and glass. Its form, a captivating interplay of angles and curves, feels poised to erupt into a crescendo of music. Within its sleek, modern embrace, melodies take flight, a testament to the beauty that resonates both inside and out.
Links of the author:
Website http://buckocreative.com/
Author: Dardan Vukaj
Country: Albania
Title of Series: “Vertical”
Photo 1: Brussels, Quatuor Building, Jaspers-Eyers Architects.
Photo 2: Milano, Generali Tower, arch Zaha Hadid
Photo 3: Milano, Bosco Verticale, arch Stefano Boeri
Photo 4: Milano, Regione Lombardia Tower, arch. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Description: A series of black and white photos that emphasize the verticality of buildings, by highlighting design elements such as rhythm, light-shadow, contrast, the texture of modern materials, futuristic design.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dardanvukaj_archframes/
Author: Josep Sánchez.
Country: Barcelona (Spain).
Title of Series: “The City of Justice”
Place: The City of Justice in Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat.
Description:The City of Justice is the largest and most complex project of the Judicial Infrastructure Plan, carried out by the Department of Justice. It symbolizes the will of the Government to bring justice closer to citizens, modernizing it and making it more comfortable and accessible.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barcelonafotos/
Author: Miles Astray
Country: Germany
Title: “Supersymmetry”
Place: Paris, France
Description: The Francois-Mitterrand Library in Paris is one of the city's lesser-known landmarks and its modern look juxtaposes the city's traditional architecture. It consists of four buildings that are all shaped like open books with two sides (pages) at a 90-degree angle. This low angle creates an apparently infinite symmetry that is symbolic of the building's futuristic nature.
Links of the author:
Website: http://www.milesastray.com/
© Miles Astray, Supersymmetry
Author: Rich Martin
Country: Switzerland
Title: “Shanghai Tower + SWFC”
Place: Shanghai, China
Description: The Shanghai Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Centre, the third and twelfth tallest buildings in the world, stand next to each other in Shanghai's Pudong district dominating the area. Capturing these ultra-modern feats of architecture and engineering on vintage cameras and film was my way of exploring the contrast between the future and the past. These two images were shot on Ilford Delta 3200 film using a Pentax 6x7 camera. I developed the film in Ilford DD-X developer, fixed with Ilford Rapid fixer. There was no digital post-processing except dust-speck removal.
Links of the author:
Website: https://developerfluid.net
Author: Stéphane Louis
Country: France
Title: “Rialto Bridge”
Place: Venice, 2020
Description: An image of one of the most photographed building of one of the most photographed cities in the world through a glass.
Links of the author:
Website: www.stephanelouis.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/slouisphotographe
© Stéphane Louis, RialtoBridge Venice 2020
Author: Louise Muscat
Country: Malta
Photo title: “Snowfall In The City”
Place: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: Snow falls on the Nordiska Museet in the city of Stockholm.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisemuscatphoto/
© Louise Muscat, Snowfall In The City
Author: Mariano Pedalino
Country: Italy
Title: “Berlin Karl Marx Allee”
Place: Berlin
Description: The photo is a double exposure of a building on the Karl Marx Allee in Berlin.
The Karl Marx Allee is characterised by buildings constructed in the 1950s, mostly belonging to the current of so-called socialist classicism, and designed on the model of the great cities of the Soviet Union such as Moscow, Kiev, Stalingrad and Leningrad
Website: https://marianopedalino.com/
Instagram: https://marianopedalino.com/
© Mariano Pedalino, Berlin Karl Marx Allee
Author: Helga Bahmer
Country: Hamburg, Germany
Title of Series "Metabolism Berlin"
Description: Metabolism - conversion of the organism foreign substances into substances that are native to the organism. Nature diffuses through the structures and buildings created by human. Concrete, stone and things; people breathe the cities air. My pictures seek an expression that represents the fight against the autonomy of nature, its control and utilisation.
The series was taken in April 2024 in various parts of Berlin.
Links of the author:
Website: https://500px.com/p/peggy-perfect
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helga_be_punkt/
Author: Zheltov Denis Yurievich
Country: Russia
Title: “Windows”
Place: Russia, St. Petersburg
Description: one of the houses of the old building of the city of St. Petersburg
Links of the author:
© Denis Zheltov, Windows
Author: Natalia Liubinetska
Country: Kyiv, Ukraine
Title: “The War in Ukraine 1, 2”
Place: Irpin, Ukraine
Description: The photos were taken in Irpin, Ukraine. A Russian missile hit a residential building. The house is now in a state of disrepair and unlivable, there is no water or electricity, but some families continue to live in it...
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liubinetska_photographer/
Author: Benaissa Ilyes
Country : Algeria
Title : “Hotel Oran”
Place : Oran , Algeria
Description of the photo : A photo of an unfinished hotel located on the seafront of Oran, Algeria
Social media :
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/benaissailyes/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/benaissailyes0/
© Benaissa Ilyes, Hotel Oran
Author: Ruslan Hajizada
Country: Azerbaijan
Title: “Multangular object”
Place: Istanbul, Turkiye
Description: This photo was captured at the territory of Jamlija mosque in Istanbul, Turkiye
© Ruslan Hajizada, Multangular Object
Author: Nurlan Tahirli
Country: Azerbaijan
Title: “Sommiar”
Place: Baku, Azerbaijan
Description: The scene was reminiscent of a passage from James Lillis's book "A Walk in Dreams", where he described a man surrounded by smooth, white surfaces everywhere. The atmosphere and color of the scene reminded me of this - a man walking in his dreams.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurlan_tahirli/
© Nurlan Tahirli, Sommiar
Author: Dimitris Lapousis
Country: Greece
Title: “Athens”
Place: Athens, Greece
Description: The Greek Parliament as a little planet.
Links of the author:
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dlapousis/
© Dimitris Lapousis, Athens
Author: Pantaleo Musarò
Country: Italia
Title: “Twin Elevation”
Place: Bologna
Description: The photo taken in the city of Bologna is actually a monument, but while I was taking the shot it took me back to the structure of two identical skyscrapers that were mirrored, but at the same time I went with memories to the twin towers. So I gave the image that ghostly allure typical of the memory of painful events, I have of many cities with popular urbanization neighborhoods.
Links of the author:
Website: https://www.pantaleomusaro.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pantaleomusaro
© Pantaleo Musarò, Twin elevation
Author: Tommaso Stefanori
Country: Rome, Italy.
Title of the Series: ''The E.U.R. District ''.
Description: This series of photos were shot in the E.U.R. district of Rome, Italy, one of the most architecturally iconic in the city. The intent of the shot is to underline the game of lights and shadows that these buildings can offer and also their inspiration to the old Roman Empire architecture.
Links of the author:
Website: https://tstefanori.wixsite.com/tommasostefanori
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tommaso_stefanori/
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Author: Andrii Bulavka
Country: France
Title of the photos: “Dancing With the Spirits”, “Dubliners”, “The Year of Dragon”.
Description: The photo series "Dancing with the Spirits" (2023) from my trip to Michoacán, Mexico, during the Day of the Dead celebration explores the resilience of local traditions in honoring ancestors.
The photo series "Dubliners" (2024), named after the novel by Irish literary figure James Joyce, highlights scenes of street life of both residents and visitors of the Irish capital, as I seek to answer for myself what makes Dublin "my city" for Dubliners.
The photo series "The Year of Dragon" (2024) documents my trip to Shanghai during the celebration of the Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival. Through this series, I aim to visually trace the cultural and societal evolution of this vast Chinese city from the traditional scenes I was fortunate to witness during the festival to the modern realities of the Chinese people, complete with skyscrapers and technologies.
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Author: Jean-Luc Feixa
Country: Belgium
Title: “Hexie Hao”
Place: China, Beijing and Shanghai
These pictures are part of the series Hexie Hao. Project done in several cities of China in 2018.
Links of the author:
Website: https://jlfeixa.bigcartel.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jlfeixa/
Author: Jason Au
Country: Hong Kong
Photo 1: “Social Distancing”. On a Sunday during the Covid-19 pandemic, Hong Kong residents congregated in a shopping mall atrium. To tackle Covid-19, the Hong Kong government has enforced by law to prohibit group gatherings of more than four persons in public places. Therefore, every group of people maintained a minimum 1.5 meter 'social distance' from another group of people. A compliance officer wearing a lanyard around his neck was seen enforcing the social distancing rule.
Photo 2: “Solitude”. As evening falls, a lone figure sits on a bench, bathed in the glow of artificial illumination. Above him, the vast expanse of empty space seems to speak to the isolation and detachment that many feel in the modern world. The urban landscape that surrounds us is a product of our own creation - and yet, as we succumb to its allure, we can't help but feel a sense of loneliness and disconnection.
Photo 3: “Tunnel Vision”. As I stroll through the aisle of this remarkable building in Hong Kong, I find myself captivated by the interplay of light on the columns, which spill onto the textured ground, creating a mesmerising tunnel-like effect. Suddenly, a young scooter kid glides by, and I carefully time my shutter release to seize this fleeting moment.
Photo 4: “Working Platform”. In the bustling city of Hong Kong, it is common to witness suspended work platforms scaling the heights of towering skyscrapers. These platforms serve as temporary workplaces for brave workers who diligently clean and maintain the exterior walls of these impressive buildings.
Photo 5: “Box Junction”. Taken from an overpass in the city centre at night, a hurried person crosses the box junction, seemingly unfazed by the traffic. Even while on the move, the person is engrossed in a phone conversation.
Place: Hong Kong
Website: https://jasonaucs.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonaucs/
Author: Natia Tetiashvili
Country: Georgia
Place: New York, United States
Title of Series: “In BluR”
Description: The series features self-portraits in various locations around New York City. The photographs are deliberately blurred to emphasize the feeling of the struggle amid the overwhelming noise and confusion. The blurred face in each photograph serves as a metaphor for the blurred lines between self and environment, individual and collective, and the internal and external chaos one experiences in such a dynamic and demanding environment. Through this project, the artist hopes to spark a dialogue about mental health, self-discovery, and the human experience of navigating through life's uncertainties. By sharing this introspective visual narrative, they aim to inspire empathy, understanding, and meaningful conversations about the complexities of the human psyche and the universal quest for purpose, and inner peace amidst the noise and confusion of modern life."
Links of the author:
Website: https://www.teteshka.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teteshka__/
Author: Liana Darenskaya
Country: Moscow, Russia
Title: “Anxiety in big city” “Down Town” “Dreams of capital” “Financial piramid” “Where Am I”
Place: Moscow
Description: The photos were taken in Moscow, downtown and a bit far area, so called sleepy region of the city. I used digital collage technique to force the impression and mood.
Links of the author:
Website: https://lianadarenskaya.ru
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lianadarenskaya/
Author: Yudai Yoshikawa
Country: Japan
Title: “A ghost in Paris”
Place: Paris
Description: Rainy, cold, depressing but relaxing time in Paris
Author: Maksym Romenskyi
Country: Ukraine (based Portugal)
Title: “Festa”
Place: Portugal
Project Description: Festa is a holiday in Portuguese. People are hungry for festa. And the scarier the world around them, the more and more people want to celebrate. They eat like it's the last time, drink like it's the last time, and laugh. But sometimes where there is a lot of laughter, there is a lot of fear. This project focuses on the visual images of insecurity and fear that manifest during celebrations.
Links of the author:
Website: https://maksymromenskyi.com
Author: Donal Husni
Country : Indonesia
Title: “Jakarta The Sinking City”
Place : North Jakarta
Description : This series is from North Jakarta that have issue with sea level that getting higher than the ground, causing the houses flooded with sea water, every time monsoon happening.
Links of the author:
http://www.donalhusni.photoshelter.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donalhusni/
Author: Muhammad Saidul Islam
Country: Bangladesh
Title: “Daily workers in Bangladesh”
Place : Daudkandi Comilla Bangladesh
Description: Bangladeshi daily laborers work tirelessly, transporting red sand for construction from all over the country, earning 300-500 BDT daily. They've used a plastic coin deposit system for 15 years. Men and women alike take breaks for meals and rest during their workday, which typically ends around 5 pm.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/muhammad.photo/
© Muhammad Saidul, Daily workers in Bangladesh
Author: Tatiana Varfolomeeva
Country: Russia
Title: “Equality”
Place: Hong Kong
Description: This photo was taken in Hong Kong at Harbour city where all the famous shops are located.
Links of the author:
© Tatiana Varfolomeeva, Equality
Author: Mario Gustavo Fiorucci
Country: Argentina
Title: “Shadows for three”
Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Description: The evening light filtered through a street and created this play of shadows to create this image.
Links of the author:
© Mario Gustavo Fiorucci, Shadows for three
Author: Mary Crnkovic Pilas
Country: Croatia
Title: “Sweet Bird of Youth”
Place: Bol, Croatia
Description: This photo was taken while I was on holiday in Bol, Croatia. One day, while going home from the beach, I walked past a park that I have passed at least a hundred times. This time, to my delight, I noticed a little girl in a white dress with blond curls swinging on the swing, and beside her, her shadow.
Links of the author:
Website: https://themarvelsofdailylife.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.marvels.of.daily.life/
Mary Crnkovic Pilas, Sweet Bird of Youth
Author: Luca Morgantini
Country: Italy
Title: "The Urban Swing"
Place: Stuttgart
Links of the author:
Website: www.lucamorgantini.com
© Luca Morgantini, The Urban Swing
© George Digalakis, The Phone call
Author: George Digalakis
Country: Greece
Title: “The Phonecall”
Place: Thessaloniki, Greece
Description: A bicycle rider, talking to his phone, in front of the famous sculpture “Umbrellas” on the seafront of the city of Thessaloniki.
Links of the author:
Website: https://www.digalakisphotography.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeDigalakisPhotography/
Author: Stefan Doynov
Country: Bulgaria
Title: “Skylight”
Place: Sofia, Stadium 'Vasil Levski' metro station entrance
Description: The photo shows a person entering the metro station who is being lit by two flying saucer-like skylights from the roof of the station.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doynov.raw/
© Stefan Doynov, Skylight
Author Liliya Zhilina
Country: Russia
Title of the Series: “Silent”
Place: Russia
Description: Feeling is a sensation we experience with a touch: both physical and spiritual. As a visual artist, I do not just see this world; I feel it. I create memories through emotional connection with everything that surrounds me. I narrate these intimate moments in photographs through metaphors and symbols, telling stories in feelings. I explore the complexity of human emotions, and how it influences the opinion, we form about ourselves. With my works, I hope to engage viewers in a silent conversation with themselves, during which they would come to accept themselves as they are, with everything they are feeling.
Liliya Zhilina, visual artist, specializing in art-fashion photography and film. In her
works, Liliya explores questions about identity, self-acceptance and complexity of human emotions. Her artistic philosophy she describes as “feeling in silence”. Through her works Liliya engages with an audience and awakes one’s consciousness not using words, but feelings that come with half-forgotten memories and moments in life.
Links of the author:
Website: http://iammeellz.tilda.ws
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammeellz/
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Author: Yurii Naumovych
Country: Ukraine
Title of series: “Parallels”
Place: Kyiv, Ukraine
Description: My project is a visual representation of various aspects of human life, emotions, and experiences. Black-and-white photography accentuates the contrast, drama, or abstraction in the images. Each diptych has its own theme or idea but collectively, they create connections, exploring contrasts, balance, the passage of time, and reflecting the inner states or social aspects of life.
Links of the author
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/naumovych
Author: Polovnikova Valentina
Country: Russia, Moscow.
Title: "Haiku.
Description: From the autumn-winter cycle.
Links of the author:
Website: https://vpolovnikova.ru
© Polovnikova Valentina, Haiku
Author: Eszter Ozsváth
Country: Hungary
Title of Series: “Perchè piangi, Roma?”
Place: Rome, Italy
Description: Although "Perchè piangi, Roma?" figuratively means "Why are you crying, Rome?", the word "piangere" also refers to raining. The series explores the strange occurrence of Rome, a city with an eternal soul, looking damp and gloomy in black-and-white - even after the clouds are all gone.
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Author: Mikhaylova Raisa
Country: Russia, Moscow
Title of Series "Paris Impression"
Description: "There is never any ending to Paris"- the photos were taken in multi-exposure mode during my trip to Paris in 2015.
Links of the author:
Website: https://raisamikhaylova.com/paris
Author: Carolina Carmini
Country: Brazil
Title: “Vestige”
Place: São Paulo
Description: This series explores the emptiness in the streets of the city of São Paulo, which are full of people every day filling their spaces. What is left when there is no more human life on the streets? If we all disappeared abruptly, what would city evidence say about us?
Our old buildings contrast with contemporary architecture, our streets, trails, trash, objects, signs, everything that makes up a city. What story would you tell about us? What this empty city would say about how we built it, how we experience it, occupy it, inhabit it. Reflect on our legacy, to rethink our present. All photographs in this series were taken on 35mm film.
Links of the author:
Website: https://carminicarolina.myportfolio.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caos.analogico/
Author: Maria Isabel Moreira
Country: Portugal
Title of series: “Porto”
Place: Porto, Portugal
Description: Old part of the city, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misgm1/
Author: Ilija Stanusic
Title: “Old city”
Place: Šibenik,Trogir, Pirovac
Description: Most towns in Dalmatia have preserved old town centers with narrow streets. The houses were built of stone and compacted, which protected them from the summer heat and strong gusts of wind.
Links of the author:
Website: https://www.stanusic.com
Author: Igal Stulbach
Country: Israel
Title of Series: “South Tel Aviv”
Description: Places in a south which is the poorer part of Tel Aviv
Links of the author:
Website: https://stulbach.com/#ms-1
Author: Eigil Eliassen
Country: Norway
Title: “Luz”
Place: Cartagena, Spain
Description: The Church "La Iglesia De Santa María De Gracia» In Cartagena, Spain.
A Luminous Cross On The Church Facade Is Formed By The Shadow Of Two Buildings Opposite.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eigilelias/
© Eigil Eliassen, Luz
Author: Pekka Lietepohja
Country: Finland
Title: “Main Street”
Place: Finland.
Description: A street of an abandoned tourist city. Analog photo with large format camera on sheet film.
Bio: I am a retired Professor from the University of Applied Sciences. I taught forest engineering at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences. My main subjects were leadership, organizational behavior, sociology, and environmental philosophy. Taking photos is my favorite hobby. My photographic specialties are film photography in large format, medium format, and 35 mm size. One of my favorite specialties is alternative chemicals and methods. I take sometimes pinhole photos. Sometimes I develop my films with a beer developer, coffee developer, or developer of birch leaf concentration. My aesthetic aims are minimalism, black and white, and abstract expressions of life and shapes of scenery and human life.
Links of the author:
© .Pekka Lietepohja, Main Street
Author: Anamaria Prelipcean
Country: Romania, Bucharest
Title: “Ghosts of the trees”
Description: During a photowalk in Cernavoda, a small town in Romania, I took this photo. Those trees were like ghosts and the buildings seemed deserted. It was a surrealistic vibe for me.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anne_de_beauvoir
© Anamaria Prelipcean, Ghosts of the trees
Author: Zhengyi Wang
Country: France
Title: “Stones of the City”
Place: Singapore
Description: This photo shows a group of boulders in a meadow with the city skyline in the background. It contrasts the rough natural shape of the stones with the sharp modern buildings behind them. It is a reminder of how nature and city life are both separate and interconnected.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ishan.wong/
© Zhengyi Wang, Stones of the City
© Flori Nepravishta, Nature and Industry
Author: Florian Nepravishta
Country: Albania
Title: “Contrasts of Nature and Industry”
Place: Vlore, Albania
Description: This black-and-white photograph captures a striking juxtaposition between the natural and industrial worlds. In the foreground, a large, gnarled tree stands prominently, its branches reaching out against the sky. The tree's intricate details and textures are highlighted by the monochrome palette, emphasizing its rugged beauty. In the background, an industrial structure rises, its modern lines and shapes contrasting sharply with the organic forms of the tree. The scene is set on a sandy beach, with scattered driftwood and grasses adding to the natural elements. The overall composition evokes a sense of balance and tension between the enduring presence of nature and the encroaching influence of human industry.
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Author: Vasily Solodyankin.
Country: Russian.
Title: “Life in the city”
Place: 2024 Paphos, Cyprus.
Links of the author:
Website: https://vasolo.ru
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vasolo/
© Vasily Solodyankin, Life in the city
Author: Guanhua Yao
Country: China
Title: “Dimple”
Place: Detroit, USA
Description: Abstract photo. Explore the relationship between nature and the city. Traditionally, I envision trees and water ripples together in harmony, but now the ripples of trees have been replaced by the ripples formed by walls.
Links of the author:
Website: https://guanhuayao.online/
© Guanhua Yao, Dimple
Author: Denis Galitsyn
Country: Russia (but I haven’t lived there for almost 2 years)
Series "Light and Darkness"
Place: Istanbul 2022
Description: The photography mainly shows the geometry of light, shadows and objects coming out of a dark area into the light.
Links of the author:
Website: https://www.behance.net/denisgalitsyn
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eendmow/
© Denis Galitsyn, Stairway
Author: Joaquín Pastor Genzor
Country: Spain
Title: “Limitado”
Place: Zaragoza, Spain
Description: A policeman walks steadily towards the courthouse. He was photographed on a sunny winter’s day, using the reflection of the windows of an adjacent modern building to compose the scene.
Links of the author:
Website: https://joakkin.com
https://www.behance.net/joakkin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joakkin_street/
© Pastor Genzor Joaquín, Limitado
Author: Amirhossein Yousefi Keysari
Country: Iran,
Title: “Sanandaj”
Place: Abidar, Sanandaj, Iran
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr_keysari/
© Amirhossein Yousefi Keysari, Sanandaj
Author: Ata Mohammad Adnan
Country: Bangladesh,
Title: “The Witness”
Place: Paris.
Description: An interesting view of the iconic Eiffel tower.
Links of the author:
Website: https://www.atamadnan.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ata.m.adnan/
© Ata Adnan, The Witness
© Josip Miskovic, Birds and butterfly
Author: Josip Miskovic
Country: Italy
Title: "Birds and butterfly”,
Place: Arezzo, Italy
Description: The photo of the sky above Arezzo (Tuscany).
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josip_miskovic/
Author: Samanta Krivec
Country: Slovenia
Title: “Shadow play”
Location: Sveti Križ Začretje, Croatia
Description: Part of the modern shopping center in Croatia. On a sunny day you can play with shadows, you almost forget that you came for shopping.
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://samantakrivec.webnode.page
© Samanta Krivec, Shadow play
Author: Seyed Ali Hosseini Far
Country: Iran
Title: “Zebra Lines”
Location: Sabzevar City, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Description: A girl with black and white bangs crossing a street with a wall with a zebra-like street painting
Links of the author:
Website: https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/358620/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoseinifar.bnw/
© Seyed Ali Hosseini Far, Zebra Lines
Authors: Yevhen Samuchenko
Country: Ukraine
Title: “Window to the party”
Place: Shanghai, China
Links of the author:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qliebin/
Yevhen Samuchenko, Window to the party
Author: Amanda Lopes
Country: Brazil
Title of Series: “Setting Sun in Everyday Life”
Title 1: “Sunset Commute”
Place: Taubaté, SP - Brazil. The photograph shows the mix of the daily grind over the natural beauty of the evening sky. Representing the harmony between the urban landscape and the calm moment of a setting sun.
Title 2: “Electric Dusk”.
Place: São José dos Campos, SP - Brazil. Inside a mesmerizing mix of lights against the urban elements. It represents the beauty in the messiness of the urban life.
Title 3: “Urban Radiance”
Place: Taubaté, SP - Brazil. The photograph presents a cityscape that became part of my everyday commute, where I try to represent the contrast of the setting sun against the normal everyday life.
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Open Call for Online Photo Exhibition with the Theme "The City in BLACK AND WHITE"
TATÌ SPACE invites all photographers inside and outside the country, professional and amateur, to participate in the online photo exhibition with the theme “The City in BLACK AND WHITE". Submit an Urban Photography, or a series in Black and White. All photos will be published in our online Gallery. Participation is free.
TATÌ SPACE creates the opportunity to exhibit your photo in group online exhibitions, with different themes in ARCHITECTURE and URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY.
The next theme is the City in BLACK AND WHITE.
TATÌ SPACE Photography Center opens the 7th edition of the Online Photo Exhibitions with the theme:
THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE
Black and white photography is the Oldest form of photography. And yet it remains very modern, as it offers different interpretations. Some artists appreciate it because in the absence of colors, black and white photography is more powerful to convey emotions. Others use monochrome photography to go back in time and evoke memories. Others use it for purely aesthetic and graphic reasons, as black and white photography offers strong contrasts and many tonalities of shades. TATÌ SPACE invites all photographers inside and outside the country, professional and amateur, to participate in the online photo exhibition with the theme the City in "BLACK AND WHITE". Submit an Urban Photography in black and white format.
The selected photos will be published in our online Gallery dedicated to the event in the website TatìSpace.com
The selected photographs will be considered to be published in the printed version of the Exhibition, in the Magazine format, printed by Blurb, and distributed in the Blurb Bookstore.
Final deadline 31 May 2024
The date of publication 20 June 2024
Participation is free
Instructions for submitting
Submit to the following email
Submit one photograph or a series (max 4-5 photos) to the email: info@tatispace.com
Write the topic of the Exhibition in the subject of the email. (THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE)
In the message write: Name Surname (yours), Your Country, Title (of the photo), Place (where the photo was taken), a brief description of the photo, links to your website or other social media.
Required format
Size: 72dpi, sRGB, 2500px on the longest side
File name: NameSurname_Title.jpg.
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* If the file is not formatted correctly, or is submitted with errors, it can not be published.
* Tati Space can not publish the photograph if it does not belong to the theme of the exhibition.
* Tatì Space has the authority to decide on which artists will be selected and will participate in the exhibition, in respect to the Terms and Conditions governing this website
* The author has the copyright and the permission to use the photos, and authorizes Tatì Space to publish them on the website www.tatispace.com, on its social media, and the printed Catalog of the Exhibition.
* The Catalog of the Exhibition will be printed on demand by Blurb and will be available in the Blurb Bookstore
* Tati Space has no financial profit from the publication of the participating photos in the Online Exhibition, in the social networks, and from the sale of the catalogues in the Blurb Bookstore. The sole purpose of the event is to bring to the attention different themes on architecture and urban photography, to create a community of photographers, architects, photography lovers that are interested in the genre.
Rozafa Shpuza
Rozafa Shpuza is a poet and a photographer, a uniqueness that creates a connection between two arts. She writes poetry in Gheg dialect, but she is as well productive in the field of photography, mainly in the genre of urban and street photography. Her photos are mostly shot in the streets of her hometown, Shkodra.
Rozafa Shpuza, Selfportrait
Rozafa Shpuza
(Albania 1969-)
Rozafa Shpuza is a poet and a photographer, a uniqueness that creates a connection between two arts. She writes poetry in Gheg dialect, but she is as well productive in the field of photography, mainly in the genre of urban and street photography. Her photos are mostly shot in the streets of her hometown, Shkodra. The subjects of her photography are urban moments of city scenes, captured in an abstract way, often surreal, with humor and well composed. The second photo gallery, perhaps the most important, is the portraits of the city dwellers, spontaneously shot in the public spaces, while performing activities or meditating in their tranquillity, captured unaware, creating a particular emotional state. What do city characters, silent passers-by, photographed in isolation, think in the midst of the urban chaos? It seems as if each of them is closed in their inner world, immersed in their thoughts and personal worries. In an individualistic society, where everyone thinks for themselves, Rozafa naturally seeks to penetrate the individual and his psychology. A third photo gallery, which I like very much, is the series of self-portraits on the streets of city, shot on sidewalks, shop windows or cafeterias, captured in superposition of different planes, alluding to a complex and confusing world in which the artist and the individual live in the modern city. Rozafa’s photographs, although unique in the Albanian photography scene, are nurtured by a rich international tradition of street photography, created and inspired by the photography of Walker Evans, Garry Winogrand, William Klein, Diane Arbus, Vivian Mayer, and others.
Below you can read a description that Rozafa Shpuza makes of her urban photography, given to TatiSpace. How did the creative process start, what was the beginning and the inspiration?
Rozafa Shpuza: Photography is a long-standing love of mine, which continues to inspire me and be an important part of my daily life. I have been dealing with photography for many years, sometimes more intensely and sometimes more calmly, and I can say without fear that photography has made my life beautiful. I bought my first camera in Denmark when I went to do a specialization course in 1994. The dynamics of that country, the architecture, the people, the different way of conceiving public spaces tempted me to fix all this on my incredibly modest camera. Since then I have not stopped. I photograph on the street because I feel that the characters I capture are real and convey the message of life without frames. Street photography is the most important part of my artistic creativity. I travel a lot because I feel like cities have a lot of surprises for my camera. The last album with street photos is the one I made in Shkodra during the isolation period of the Covid 19 pandemic. An empty city, scared characters in a hurry, closed windows and doors, all these sensations are already fixed in my album "The diary of an anxious season". I have participated in many activities dedicated to photography, in joint and personal exhibitions, at home and abroad, with the good desire to get to know photographer artists and to see where my photography stands compared to their photos. 3 years ago I opened an art gallery in Shkodra, at the old parents' house, with the good desire to promote artists from all over the world.
Urban Moments
© Rozafa Shpuza, Watery
© Rozafa Shpuza, Shkodra News
© Rozafa Shpuza, Shkodra
© Rozafa Shpuza, Kafja e Madhe, Shkodër
© Rozafa Shpuza, Showcase Approach
© Rozafa Shpuza, Selfportrait
© Rozafa Shpuza, Trille Vitrinash
© Rozafa Shpuza, No Smoking
© Rozafa Shpuza, Daily
© Rozafa Shpuza, The Floor F
© Rozafa Shpuza, Bike Repair
© Rozafa Shpuza, Chez Majlo, Gjilan
© Rozafa Shpuza, Pogradec
© Rozafa Shpuza, Nowhere
© Rozafa Shpuza, Communication, Koman Shkoder
© Rozafa Shpuza, Trumnajë bore
© Rozafa Shpuza, My Nowhere
Portraits of Passers-by
© Rozafa Shpuza,
© Rozafa Shpuza
© Rozafa Shpuza, showcase traps
© Rozafa Shpuza, Piano
© Rozafa Shpuza, Daily Time
© Rozafa Shpuza, Taxes that are forgiven
© Rozafa Shpuza, Children
© Rozafa Shpuza, Curiosity
© Rozafa Shpuza, The Walk
© Rozafa Shpuza, Icy Memories
© Rozafa Shpuza, Njomza
© Rozafa Shpuza, from the Series ‘Diary of an anxious season’
© Rozafa Shpuza, Time to pray, Shkodër
© Rozafa Shpuza, from the Series ‘Diary of an anxious season’
© Rozafa Shpuza, from the Series ‘Diary of an anxious season’
© Rozafa Shpuza
© Rozafa Shpuza, Wanderer
© Rozafa Shpuza, The Selector, from the Series ‘The Diary of an anxious season”
© Rozafa Shpuza, Lunch
© Rozafa Shpuza
© Rozafa Shpuza, Plisa
© Rozafa Shpuza, At ‘Dugajt e Reja’, Shkodër
© Rozafa Shpuza, the Neighbor
Color Photography
© Rozafa Shpuza, Salty twilight
© Rozafa Shpuza, Communication
© Rozafa Shpuza, Once Upon a Time
You can see more of Rozafa Shpuza photos, in her social media, Facebook, Instagram and Galleria Oda.
Photography Exhibition CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE 2021
Online Photography Exhibition with the theme “The City in BLACK AND WHITE Photography” 2021.
TATÌ SPACE Photography Center presents the third online Exhibition with the theme “The City in BLACK AND WHITE Photography”. We thank the participating artists who responded to our open invitation, bringing interesting interpretations of the monochrome city, from different parts of the world; France, Chile, USA, Albania, Spain, Austria.
Author: Albert Cmeta
Title: It is only Tirana ...
Place: "Zogu i Zi" roundabout, Tirana
Description: "Cosmic S" is a work by world-famous Albanian artist Helidon Xhixha. It is an expression of the transformation that Tirana is undergoing day by day.
© Albert Cmeta
Author: Florian Nepravishta
Title: (1) MGM National Harbor, DC Waterfront. (2) “Untitled” Uji Ftohte Vlore, Albania
Description: Two contrasted photographs: Amerika versus Albania
© Meti Spahiu
Author: Alketa Misja
Title: Kollonat, Tirana, Albania
Description: The Western Fasade of Kollonat, a building of Rational Modernism in Albania of 1940s built with a project of well-known architect Gherardio Bosio. The photo is shoot in 4x5 inch film with Garflex Crown Graphic. Both the Camera and the Building belong to the same era of modernism, now part of history. The photo is part of the Series “Exploring Modern Architecture in Albania”
© Alketa Misja
Author: Rozafa Shpuza
Title: Showcase Traps
Place: Shkoder April 2021, Albania
Description: A store closed due to Covid-19. Showcases have naked mannequins. No one buys clothes in stores during this period. Meanwhile, the dormitory of the University of Shkodra is reflected in the windows of these sad shop windows, and a passerby on bicycle is rushing somewhere. This is the refrain of a street in my city that used to buzz…
© Rozafa Shpuza
Author: Andi Papastefani
Title: Tiny Titans River, Under Snow
Place: Lana River, Tirana, Albania
© Andi Papastefani
Author: Genta Karanxha
Title: The tree
Description: “I am an architect based in Tirane. My artistic eye is very sensitive to these kind of angles; I'm always drawn to find interesting and creative perspectives in my city. Toptani shopping center's facade reflects the interesting volume of The Plaza Tirana…”
© Genta Karanxha
Author: Josep Sánchez
Title: Lights and Shadows
Place: Barcelona, Spain
Description: The Gothic Quarter, is the oldest nucleus and one of the most beautiful areas of the city. It is made up of narrow and labyrinthine medieval streets, which gives it a mysterious air.
© Josep Sánchez
Author: Milicent Fambrough
Title: Afternoon
Place: San Antonio Texas USA
Description: Afternoon is the image of our downtown street of commerce. This stretch of road is endlessly busy. The tourists and locals mingle on pavement. Heavy foot traffic in the shadows of historic architectural landscape.-M 2021
© Milicent Fambrough
Author: Rudina Aleksi
Title: Notre Dam de Paris.
Graduated from the Polytechnic University of Tirana, with a degree in Architecture, major Urban Planning. After working for a couple of years in Urban Planning in Albania, Rudina moved to Toronto, Canada, where she has been working for several architectural firms. She enjoys architecture and landscape photography.
© Rudina Aleksi
Author: Dorina Pllumbi
Title: Facing Manhattan
Place. Brooklyn Heights Promenade, New York
Dorina is an architect, researcher, and amateur photography explorer.
© Dorina Pllumbi
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THE CITY IN BLACK AND WHITE Online Photography Exhibitions 7th edition