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.

The art of documentary photography

Humble beauty in the passage of time • We see faint green walls, the floor the same colour, a worn-out deep brown wooden desk, two steel bar stools with orange seats, a barren fluorescent tube hanging above the scene and local trumpery as decoration. History bleeds from the highly descriptive and factual, but none less poetic, photograph. This is Bar Melón in Del Carril, Buenos Aires Province, highly exemplary of the many bars in Argentina that Guillermo Srodek-Hart photographed during a period of ten years. His photographs are collected in his perfectly printed book Stories.

Hall of Mirrors

Documentary Photography and Art • Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism or reallife reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.

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When the memory turns to dust • The works of the Cuban artist Ricardo Miguel Hernández do not contain self-produced photographs, but they are collages containing a myriad of old pictures, all memories of a past that have been forgotten and ask for new reconstructions. His works are enigmatic and provoke an active role of the spectator. Hernández uses different shapes, styles and colours, creating a testament of the past. His project When the memory turns to dust is a puzzle of memories of the very eventful Cuban past.

Light pollution in nature

Trapped in a golden cage • In the photos of Roxana Savin, we see modern, neatly maintained houses in a snowy landscape, women’s hand putting white flowers in a vase - background dull grey, well-ironed shirts sorted by colour - blue and grey, and women on their beds - looking bored as if they are captivated in a luxurious prison. These are uncomforting photos of an autobiographical project with the not less uncanny title I’ll be late tonight. We talk to the Romanian artist Roxana Savin: “This project was made while I was living in a gated expatriate residence, on the outskirts of Moscow. I lived there for eight years.”

The magic of crossing pedestrians • Looking at the pedestrians in East London, a colourful part of the capital, in the book The Corners of Chris Dorley-Brown, a sudden feeling of magic creeps in the mind of the beholder. They all seem neatly arranged over the photographic canvas as if the photographer got a divine stroke of multi-decisive moments in his viewfinder. The wide variety of styles of the East London buildings adds to the almost forgone, nostalgic atmosphere, and the absence of cars puzzles even more. “I created a world that was quieter, stiller and calmer. The process was more like painting”, explains the London photographer.

Gold and Religion

Paradise Lost in Nagorno-Karabakh • In the autumn of 2020, an armed conflict sparked between Azerbaijan and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Russian photojournalist Valery Melnikov visited Nagorno-Karabakh twice, in October and November-December 2020, spending a total of six weeks in Karabakh. He made a...