David Shortland
Round 8 & 12 Winner - About Photography Challenge
David Shortland, is an Irish photographer based in London, UK.
He works mainly in the genre of candid street photography, drawing influence from fine-art photography masters such as Saul Leiter, Ernst Haas and Fred Herzog. Hw often shoots with longer focal lengths and likes to incorporate elements of abstraction, texture and vibrant colour.
David picked up photography as a hobby during lockdown at the start of 2021 and it quickly became an obsession. As someone who deals with some anxiety issues, He’s found street photography to be incredibly therapeutic. Overcoming the fear of photographing people has helped to boost his confidence and removed a lot of barriers to creativity.
His first publication, 'First Year', was released in March 2022.
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Christopher Mccurdy
Round 6 & 7 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Christopher Mccurdy is a photographer in Charlotte, nc. He loves photography because he views it as a vehicle to improve many things beyond just the technical aspects. His biggest inspirations are Todd Hido, Gordon parks, Bruce Davidson, and Daido Moriyama. His camera of choice is the Ricoh GR3 because it allows him to draw the least attention to himself and the ibis let’s him take photos at night without a tripod.
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Tommaso Carrara
Round 5, 18, 27 & 29 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Tommaso is an Information Security Italian expat who moved to the United Kingdom 12 years ago mainly driven by career progression. He has always liked beautiful photographs, but he has never been interested in 'making' photographs. Until December 2018 when, following the end of a relationship, he felt the need to investigate his inner thoughts and try to somehow explain what was going on. This is when he bought himself a proper camera and began self-learning about how to operate it. He generally shoot with his digital Leica M10-R, although he recently went deeper into film photography and processing and found himself enjoying it for its signature look and image quality. Standard film boasts impressive image quality, with greater variation between light and dark.
“When working with film, you’ve to make decisions that have a considerable impact on the result, and this is why I enjoy this medium so much.”
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Lazim Ali Navas
Round 3 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Lazim Ali Navas, is an aspiring Documentory Photographer, currently trying his hand in every genre. It's been only a year since he started his photography journey (2021) trying to eternalise the beautiful moments throughout our lifetime.
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Gianluca Mortarotti
Round 2 & 11 Winner - About Photography Challenge
Gianluca Mortarotti, is a self-taught photographer based in London, UK.
The roots of his interest in photography lie in his father's work, from developing films in darkroom at a very young age to wedding photography works, introduced him at first to the world of photography.
After his studies in architecture and building engineering, the Roman photographer focused on life in cities by capturing candid moments and exploring urban contrasts and its failure in human connections.
In 2021 his work has been selected among the winning images of the Life Framer competition (World Travelers category).
In 2021 he self-published his first book “LSD – Lockdown Street Diary”, a collection of street photographs that showcases fragments of life before, during, and after the lockdown in London capturing the complexities of everyday life in this unprecedented time.
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Stefano Annovazzi Lodi
Round 1 Winner - About Photography Challenge
More of a writing guy for his entire life, Stefano got tired of bleeding his soul with a pen and took photography seriously. Before, he just wanted to have some good memories of his travels, but then he got into street portraits and street photography in general. He switched his old reflex with a mirrorless and hit the road. He now trys to bring his camera with him everywhere he goes, which is, the one key factor to get some good shots. Furthermore, Stefano recently started a little studio with some friends as models. In general Stefano likes the interaction with his subjects, it makes him feel good. Even if he doesn’t look for themes when he shots, Stefano could find some recurrence ex post, and He is now fully aware of the power of a good photo series which He’s trying to develop. Stefano is making his first experiments with off camera flash in the street, which is tricky both because it’s hard and because you can annoy people. So far he still has all of his teeth.
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