Flora Fauna - EYESHOT street photography magazine overview

What’s up photography fans. Welcome back to About Photography channel. Today I am here with a review of the brand new issue of the Eyeshot magazine Flora and Fauna which focuses on street photography. This issue is amazing but before we check it out let me just tell you I am going to be giving away this copy of the magazine thanks to Marco Savarese Editor and Curator of the Eyeshot magazine. All you need to do is leave a comment below this Youtube video what is your favorite photograph from this issue and  also comment on the Eyeshot instagram post.

For those of you who don’t know the eyeshot magazine it is a publication focusing on street photography. It offers a unique combination of both amateur and  professional photographer and what I am actually really excited about is that the Eyeshot is gonna be publishing photography books which looks just amazing. I am definitely gonna be reviewing those and I do plan to buy them for my Ikea cabinet. Six new signed and limited edition books of some of the best street photographers is going to be published in the span of months. So stayed tuned for that it is coming soon.

Now, let’s talk about Flora and Fauna. Once again I have to talk about packaging, which is very nice and together with the unique number gives it a premium feel.

This issue has 166 pages and 130 photographs. 500 copies were printed and the dimensions are 21×27 cms. There are no street festivals this time but it does not even matter. The book is full of content. 

When I first found about the topic I was really not sure how this issue is going to present animals and flowers, trees and still keep the street photography theme. I was really convinced this is going to slide to the either wildlife shots or landscapes. Well, I couldn’t be more wrong. The Idea is basically to treat animals (the subjects) in the same way how you would treat people in the street photography from the  composition standpoint.   

The relationship between men and nature tips over in the five chapters edited by guest photographers who, in turn, select the photos coming from all over the world. Like in the /Peanuts/ comic strips, here men are just a secondary plot that appears by chance and passing by.

Plants and animals live in the photographic moment without building any kind of relationship with humans’ time, but marking their own one through reflections and shadows, similarities and contrasts, lines and dimensions, by finding space where there isn’t any or by filling the void.

I have to confess I had once again problems to pick my top 5 favorite images and ended up with 6. Let me know what is your favorite image or images in the comments.

I am going to show them in the order how they are presented in the book. 

Foz, Lugo, San Martiňo, Spain

Foz, Lugo, San Martiňo, Spain is a photograph by Martín Molinero. I love how the flowers almost look like if they were added later in the post. I guess without the flowers the shot would probably also work as monochromatic shot with shades of red. It has nice figure to ground relationship when the fence with the crosses is pretty clear in the picture.  But the complimentary green flowers give the photograph nice feel. What I especially like is the green which we often associate with nature is represented by the irregular flowers in the foreground with black creation of man in the background. I like the shot a lot.

Efi Longinou, UNTITLED, Berlin, Germany 2019

What I like about this shot by Efi Longinou is how it pastes together the flora and you know regular city life with the help of reflections.

Siegfried Hansen, FACE IN THE WATER Hamburg, Germany 2017

I absolutely love this shot by Siegfried Hansen because I wasn’t exception anything like this when I was going true the book an it screamed on me just like the famous painting by Edvard Munch

Maciej Dakowicz BEACH SCENE - CHAUNG THA, MYANMAR

Maciej Dakowicz’s Beach scene is a nice shot using multiple sub framings and unreal feeling with those two fake zebras. I can see this shot working also a black and white picture but I really like the muted colors in this one.

Vineet Vohra - UNTITLED Yamuna Ghat, New Delhi, India 2019

Now, this shot by Vineet Vohra is a cool one. I have seen quite a few shot with the birds like this from India and I like the grace, the pose of the dog in the foreground. The composition is so nice I would almost say we are looking at the portrait :D If this was somehow possible.

Graciela Magnoni - UNTITLED Cape Coast, Small village, Ghana 2017

The last one by Graciela Magnoni is probably my most favorite from the book. I love how the shadow changes the goat into a dragon or something like that. I can see that in a motivational video or poster with something like “Dream Big” sign.

“The lesson you learn from *Flora and Fauna* is the ability to adapt to a world that flows so fast and selfishly, that you forgot who was occupying it before us.” - Veronica Gabbuti

So, if you want get the EYESHOT magazine what are the options? When you check the eshop you can choose between digital which is pretty cheap and paper edition. The paper edition is limited which is written on the paper tag as well as the first page which gives it really a premium feel. and You are also going to get a nice postcard from the previous issue with the paper edition.

Photography books and magazines are great instrument for us photographers to get inspired and improve in what we do. If you are looking for the inspiration in either flora or fauna you can not go wrong with this issue.

Visit the EYESHOT website: https://eyeshotstreetphotography.com.