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.

Visual Diary

Embroideries of the pinching past • The old craft of embroidery, decorating fabric with a thread, is re-evaluated and reused by artists who insert it in their artworks as a metaphor for storytelling, especially stories from the past. Astrid Reischwitz, who left Germany as a young woman, and is now living in the United States, used the embroidery to relive her childhood memories of the Spin Clubs in northern Germany. With her work, she visualises her past, including hidden stories from her family and the culture she grew up in, to rebuild her lost roots. The Spin Club Tapestry and Stories from the kitchen table revive the ancient tradition of telling and remembering local stories.

If you can dream it, you can do it

From here to eternity

Migraine Calendar

Visual Diary • Highlights of Artdoc Exhibition

Amuletos

The words that she wrote

Demons of the past • Family pictures are ubiquitous. We all have family albums from the past or recent times. Undeniably, they construct our personal and family identity, which usually puts a veil of happiness over our history. French Moroccan artist Carolle Bénitah applied different strategies to deal with the family myth. In one series, she put a gold leaf on photographs found anonymously, and in another, she embroidered her family photographs. It became a process of catharsis. “Each hole I made in the pictures was like killing the demons of the past.”

Secret rooms

Home soil

Photo Books

Tell Me What I'm Remembering

Night Book

Remembering Papa • The project, Remembering Papa, is not about the father of Terlizzi but about his maternal Italian family called Papa. Both of his maternal grandparents shared the name, Papa. It's a surname that JP Terlizzi most identifies with. The series comprises carefully selected objects into which he meaningfully integrated old family photos. Honest pieces of text complete the story of the first generations of Italian immigrants in America.