Lens Magazine - October 2021

In this issue

It's a pleasure to publish this month's MIX issue featuring outstanding fine art photographers and photojournalists from around the globe.
In this beautiful edition, you will find an exclusive interview with one of the rising star artists, Katerina Belkina. Towards the upcoming Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt this November, where Katerina will exhibit limited editions from two of her latest projects, we enjoyed interviewing this fascinating artist and presenting three of her series.
More you will find impressive photojournalism projects by Aude Osnowycz focused on Women fighters in Syria and Ukraine: a youth between war and peace. Holger Hoffmann presents his two beautiful projects, "The Dolgan Reindeer Nomads" and "Ugolnye Kopi | a Post-Soviet Ghost Town in Chukotka."
Sara Victoria Sandberg is focused on photomanipulation in a magical, dreamy world, and Laurie Freitag is exhibiting a black & white artistic photography project dedicated to nature.

Participating photographers:
Katerina Belkina, Aude Osnowycz, Holger Hoffmann, Laurie Freitag, Sara Victoria Sandberg, JP Terlizzi, Hieronymus Grabstein and Fares Micue.

On the cover: Personal Identity, 2016
Katerina Belkina © All rights reserved.
See the exclusive interview article on page 14.

An Exclusive Interview With Katerina Belkina

My face and body are the main instruments I use to incarnate the images I want. Standing in front of the camera as a model, I follow the age-old theatrical playing roles.

10+ mins

AUDE OSNOWYCZ - 2SERIES

WOMEN FIGHTERS IN SYRIA UKRAINE: A YOUTH BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE

10+ mins

The Dolgan Reindeer Nomads

The Dolgan reindeer nomads live at the estuary of the Chatanga River on the Taimyr Peninsula in the far north of Siberia. Despite the harsh conditions, their life in the wide tundra means freedom. They prefer it to a sedentary life in the village.

2 mins

LAURIE FREITAG 'IN THE GARDEN AT CHISLEHURST'

This work, 'In the Garden at Chislehurst', is my navigation through 2020. My day job is as a nanny & by entering the world of a four-year-old, I was able to escape the pandemic and find a beautiful space in the garden, a reminder that beauty is always here for us, no matter what unfortunate circumstance is around us. It raises the question, do we believe, as Einstein said, Is the universe a friendly place?

3 mins

“What if?”

"Being an artist means for me bringing one's artistic vision into everyday life. It means harnessing the moments of inspiration and creativity but also trying to embrace all aspects of the process when it means adversity and hard work. With my art, I would like the viewer to be carried away into another world and encouraged to create and shape his or her individual story. I hope my art provides a moment of respite for the viewer and perhaps inspires the thought, "What if?".

2 mins

THE Good Dishes

The Good Dishes integrates memory, legacy, and metaphor with my response to loss. As I witness an early generation of family members pass, my cousins and I were each faced with the emotional task of cleaning out the family home.

3 mins

Hieronymus Grabstein – Monumentum

Our brain is organized so that it analyses and memorizes visual information faster than any text. A spectator is always curious to see what is left outside the camera’s view. There is hardly a better way to tell stories of people’s lives other than via visual imagery. Handicraft– from the beginning and up to the end of each operation. It is not an automated process but significant experience, expertise, and a bit of spontaneity and freedom of artistic creativity.

2 mins

Fares Micue – An ultimate message of Positivism

I always try to isolate as many details as I can from the final image I want to create, like that I able to get to a more accurate representation of the image in my head.

2 mins

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The International Magazine for Contemporary Fine Art Photography.

Lens Magazine is a monthly publication that exhibits the best and brightest photography works. Lens Magazine follows the same the foundations laid upon by its predecessor, aiming to unearth and showcase both leading artists and emerging talents alike.
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