Modern Photographers / Z

Imagine motorcycles unlike any others you’ve seen before, ornate mechanical confections like Fabergé eggs with engines, exquisite but hard-boiled — and big, resplendent in the variety of their design and spectacular enough to be arrayed on pedestals in a museum. In fact, they were.

Immanuel Kant had said, “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason...” The business of images today, in whatever applicable form for any reason, is an imperative, and as indispensable as breathing. In this and the forthcoming photo-investigations, I will attempt to decipher the morphology of our senses, their importance, their evolution and the contemporary science behind understanding these faculties, and the part they play in general, especially, in our particular pursuit. My vocation of photography is actually the daily practice of sensing, it is for me the means, to identify, discover and propose aesthetic dimensions that would appeal to our senses, that are yet undiscovered and uncatalogued.

Jon Enoch is a London-based freelance photographer, who works with celebrities, sports people, CEOs, as well as advertising agencies and brands. Jon regularly creates his own personal work, which have won numerous awards over the years. Jon’s recent project ‘The Candymen of Mumbai’ has won a Portrait of Humanity award and was the overall winner of the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the year 2023. His previous 2019 project called ‘Bikes of Hanoi’ also picked up multiple awards including the Paris Photo Prize - Gold in 2019, Portrait of Humanity Award 2020 and was the Smithsonian Grand Prize Winner in 2020. He was also shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards in 2020 and nominated for the Lens Culture Portrait Prize 2020. We asked him a few questions about his project 'Reflections'

Inversion, a compelling artistic intervention by the renowned artist Danila Tkachenko, serves as a poignant traveling photo exhibition documenting the devastating consequences of Russian military aggression in Ukraine. This thought-provoking project was created with the support of the non-profit organization Gariwo and features a curated selection of powerful images.

Italian photography is rich and diverse, reflecting the country’s cultural, social, and political changes over the past century and a half. From its early beginnings as a Western import, Italian photography has developed its own unique style and techniques, and has produced a number of highly regarded photographers who have left an indelible mark on the medium.

Transcendence is a visual narrative which asks us to look beyond the reality of the photograph(s) as a recorded document, but rather to have it seen as a visual journey into the revelation of self

The relationship between the self and other is one of the most exquisite theoretical issues in the social sciences (Ziller 1990). The essential question 'Who am I?' hides, in my opinion, the equation of infinity of unknowns interconnected with the combination of random and non-random equations around (in discourse with Bronfenbrenner´s socioecological model, Bronfenbrenner 1986, 1992, 2009) and before-behind (in discourse with Erikson´s stages of psychosocial development, Erikson 1963).

He found himself at the margins of society over a decade ago. When he's not with a group of friends in an abandoned gardening colony, he repeatedly seeks a way to stand on his own feet. He has a good heart and a proud look. He treats others the same way they treat him. Surrounded by abandoned animals, he searches for work and dreams of a better future, without expecting compassion.

Under the scorching sky, on the frozen lakes, through the rains, beneath the canopy: journeys of 10 women and 10 men to understand adaptation