Artdoc Photography Magazine

Artdoc is an international digital magazine dedicated to the world of photography. The name Artdoc refers to our vision of art photography and documentary photography. The two fields have merged, and contemporary photography is a blend of both. Artdoc brings photography as the visual storytelling medium of our time. Artdoc Photography Magazine publishes engaging and high-quality portfolios of established and emerging photographers. Moreover, Artdoc publishes critical essays about the theory of photography.

From the Editors

Layered description of place and space • His photographs appear to be architectural, but John Riddy doesn’t think of himself as an architectural photographer. Buildings might be the subject of his pictures, but they are also sculptural settings for an analytical, and at the same time, personal description of the more abstract qualities of place and space. Riddy explains: “When it works, the photographs bring different elements together to make something more than just one place or time. I hope my photographs resonate with other images and shared experience.”

Prisons from Above

Was my grandfather a spy? • On April 10, 1943, Allied troops landed in Sicily, catching Hitler’s army off guard. A decisive event for the end of World War II that has its origins in the deception designed by British intelligence, and in which the appearance of the corpse of the false English officer William Martin, on the shores of Punta Umbria (Huelva) on April 30 of the same year, is transcendental. The choice of this corner of southern Spain, among other reasons, is due to the presence of the German Clauss family. Photographer María Clauss, the granddaughter of the story’s protagonists, carried out a documentary to reveal the family secret.

The eidos of photography • Roland Barthes was not only the first philosopher to apply semiology to photography; he was also the first to bid semiology farewell again. Camera Lucida, the last book he wrote, is a return to the method condemned by semiologists: phenomenology, in search of the essence of photography. This essence was summed up by Barthes as ‘that-has-been’. Various criticisms have been made against this definition, but why did Barthes adhere to objectivity in photography?

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New World • During the corona pandemic lockdown, the air appears to be a lot cleaner. In India, suddenly after thirty years, people can see the Himalayas. How will the world look like after the lockdown? Will we fly all over the world again, polluting the air? Are we going to visit faraway countries over the world again, to take selfies at tourist spots? Or are we going to explore and experience our own private space and territory? In this exhibition “New World”, these photographers show their vision with their creative work on what the world will look like after the corona crisis.

Poetic Explorations of Beth

Shadow of the Mind • Roger Ballen’s idiosyncratic subject choice and aesthetic is immediately recognizable in each of his photos. It is not without reason that his new book and exhibition is called Ballenesque: his very personal and inimitable style has become a term. “The goal is to challenge my own mind. To let the mind talk to itself.”

Reality and imagination • In this era in which we are overwhelmed with an infinite number of pixels on our screen, the French artist Baptiste Rabichon surprises us with an analogue process of displaying his works. This process consists of a series of steps in which he mixes analogue and digital photographic techniques on a light-sensitive surface. The conceptual scenes of Rabichon are a collection of photograms that represent his representation of reality.

Melancholic poetry

Archaeology of the present • The photo ‘Beverly Boulevard at La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 21 June 1975’ from the series Uncommon...