The best photographers, according to the editors, are able to capture the moment in such a way that you want to review it again and again. The pictures are amazing and impressive, forcing us to open our eyes to what we do not notice in Everyday life. Beauty is all around us, and photographers prove it over and over again.

Losko Magazine has collected 10 bright projects, where the best photographers demonstrate their vision. Industrial landscapes and breathtaking views, strict geometry and abstract minimalism - everything is here. The pictures are different, but there is something that unites them - the aesthetic pleasure that you get when viewing.

1. Salt mining sites in surreal photos by Emma Phillips

2. Geometric world in the photo of Lino Russo

Lino Russo (Eng. Lino Russo)- this is not only a crazy method of weaving long braid, but also the name of a graphic designer from Italy. Growing up in the bay of the Gulf of Naples, Lino stared at the sky for hours and dreamed until the word popped into his head. The eponymous series of photographic images is breathtaking with a curious fusion of sky and geometric metrics.

Minimalistically polished images reign in the artist's series: simple elements and clean lines, harmony and symbiosis of natural and industrial, carefully thought out compositions and structures, decisive contrasts of the infinite blue sky and the variegation of Italian architecture.

The places caught in the artist's lens have several commonalities: they are sketchy, they pursue impeccable symmetry and indulge in the square as much as they can. Lino sought to show a grandiose escape from the intended context of architectural spaces, inviting viewers to explore multiple ways of fresh interpretations.

3. Industrial landscape: the song of concrete and steel in the Sites project

Kai Sammer (Eng. Kai Caemmerer) - photographer with a Bachelor of Arts degree based in Chicago, USA. In the project, he draws attention to how the developing industrial landscape of cities overshadows nature.

The photographs show that steel and concrete structures truly dominate the territory and fill all the available space. Nature, on the other hand, modestly and meekly gives way.

Gigantic immense structures somewhat arrogantly "look" at the person who builds and maintains them.

4. Architecture photography by German photographer Kilian Schoenberger

Color blindness is not a reason to give up the desire to become a professional photographer and create wonderful photographs of architecture. By his example, the German Kilian Schoenberger proved that this vice can be turned into your own. forte. He simply stopped paying attention to shades of green and brown and focused on the texture of the photo, thereby developing his own approach to processing frames.

Kilian recently filmed an architectural project in Heusse. It is a museum located on the territory with total area at 62 acres. From 1982 to 1994, the sculptor Erwin Gerich built 11 museum pavilions on this land, which he himself calls "chapels". Each shot of this place attracts with architectural harmony and style geometry.

5. Living green fences in the photo of Alexandra Devi

Living green fences are amazing and harmonious. “Plants are part of nature, and walls are part of culture, which provide us with an imaginary protection from prying eyes. Inside they hide what a man tries to hide from outside world, but presents it in a different way, "- these words formed the basis of the idea of ​​​​the photo project" , the author of which is a pretty girl from France with the majestic name of Alexandra.

In her photographs Alexandra Devi Alexandra Davy wants to convey the strange habit of people to close, hide. As if everyone wants to build their own monolithic stone wall, even if there are only simple hedges at hand for this. This changes nature, turning beautiful plants into blocks of stone.

Post-Soviet architecture forms a unique landscape of the city, and in the pictures of British photographer Roman Sakovich Roman Sakovich looks especially atmospheric and really unique, despite the fact that these are “ordinary” urban places.

The abundance of light and the purity of each frame is what mainly determines the style of the photographer. In addition, the script of each shooting is carefully thought out, so the result is often stunning.

7. Breathtaking views from Finn Beals

If you like breathtaking views, you will love the work of Finn Beals. (Finn Beales). His photos are quite popular among users. Instagram. And for good reason: he succeeds in really amazing, only the best photographers are capable of this. Just look at these photos and, before you have time to come to your senses, you will start packing your backpack for a hike.

Finn doesn't just shoot for himself. His photographs are commissioned and used by many international brands.

Them, like ordinary people, attracts cinematic and thoughtful compositions. There is a whole story behind every frame. And this only fuels curiosity more, inspires and fascinates.

8. David Berdeni - St. Petersburg and Moscow metro stations at night

Would you like to see what events metro stations witness at night? The opportunity presented itself to Canadian architect and photographer David Berdeni. David Burdeny, who created a series called , which tells about the amazing underground architecture of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

To get permission to shoot at night, the photographer had to wait almost a year. But the effort was worth it, and the best photographers in the world would envy the given opportunity. For two weeks, David filmed on empty station platforms, enjoying the beauty of the interior decoration of Stalinist buildings.

In St. Petersburg, David visited the Hermitage, and also went to Pushkin and Peterhof. The photographer managed to convey the atmosphere of the luxury of deserted halls with their museum curators, who, according to the author of the series, are a reminder of the achievements of Russian culture.

9. The mental space of the environment according to Benoit Payet

Mental space is a subtle matter. His research was taken up by Benoît Payet, an experimental artist from Quebec who seeks his personal definition in all established genres of photography. Refers his work to "hyper-realistic" painting.

The "" series digitizes mental spaces, trying to talk about humanity without directly demonstrating people. Benois creates his emotional portrait and enters into a symbolic dialogue with his environment, with his former beliefs and prejudices, reinventing himself and building his reality manifesto.

“When my eye, like a camera, focuses on some object, all the disturbing thoughts that previously terrorized my head suddenly disappear. In my series, I made an attempt to let the audience feel that feeling.”

10. Amazing architecture as an object of interest of Matthias Heydrich

Matthias Heydrich is a 29-year-old photographer from Bad Hersfeld who is attracted to the amazing, graphic design and urban landscape. He is an admirer of Josef Schulz, Tim Hecker, drone ambient, vinyl covers and playing with light. His work is a real photographic trip to the world beautiful forms and structures. He enjoys exploring the complexities of color in minimalist architecture, following his unique and highly distinctive style, and bringing an unexplored side of the well-known Berlin to the world.

When Mattias goes for a walk, his eyes are constantly looking for patterns, lines, colors and various urban abstractions in order to turn all this assortment into something new, to pull them out of the general context. “If I had to choose one location for filming on Earth, I would opt for the industrial areas of the former Soviet countries. These places are full of amazing and strange architecture.”

In fact, ratings are not a thankful thing and are very subjective. Summing up the best of the best in the rating lists, we still use some kind of our own internal tuning fork. We also decided to make our own rating list of the 10 greatest Soviet photographers, according to the site.

We note right away that the list will include several photographers who worked long before the formation of the Union of Soviets, however, their influence on the development of photography, both Soviet and world, is so great that it was simply impossible to say anything about them. Also, given the subjectivity this list, we tried to reflect in it the brightest representatives in every single photographic genre.

The first place in our ranking undoubtedly belongs to. This is the greatest figure of culture and art. His influence on the development of Soviet art cannot be overestimated. He concentrated on himself art young country of the Soviets - was both a sculptor and an artist, and graphic designer, and a photographer. Considered one of the founders of constructivism. Rodchenko is a universal and multifaceted figure. He became an effective impetus for the development of photography and design. His methods of constructive construction of photography are used as canons.

The second position is occupied by a Russian photographer of the early 20th century - Georgy Goyningen-Hühne. Despite the fact that all professional life and Georgy spent his activities in France, England and the USA, but still, he is Russian by origin. And in this case, he serves as an example of how people from Russia achieved recognition and success abroad. George is one of the greatest fashion photographers of the 20s and 30s. By 1925, become the chief photographer of French Vogue. In 1935 - the American Harper's Bazaar. In 1943, two of his books are published, after which all his photographic attention is concentrated on Hollywood celebrities.

The contribution of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky to the development of photographic art is great. Prokudin-Gorsky was a chemist and a photographer, and the occupation of one helped to improve - the second. He went down in history as the first experimenter who offered the possibility of creating a color photograph in Russia. The method used by Prokudin-Gorsky to acquire a photograph of color was not new. It was proposed back in 1855 by James Maxwell, it included the imposition of three negatives, where each is passed through a filter of a certain color - red, green and blue. These three negatives, superimposed on each other, in the projection give color image. Today, thanks to Prokudin-Gorsky, we have the opportunity to see Russia at the beginning of the 20th century in color.



Our top ten continues - a Soviet military photographer, the author of two of the greatest, iconic photographs of the Great patriotic war- "The First Day of the War" and "The Banner over the Reichstag" - Yevgeny Khaldei. As a military photographer, Khaldei went through the entire Great Patriotic War, and his most significant works were made in the period from 1941 to 1946. The photographs of Chaldea are overflowing with a sense of historical importance. It is no secret that many of the photographer's works, including the work "The Banner over the Reichstag" were staged. Khaldei believed that photography should convey the spirit of time and events as fully as possible, therefore, there was no need to hurry. The author approached the creation of each work responsibly and thoroughly.


Our list continues with the classic of photographic journalism - Boris Ignatovich. Ignatovich was a close friend and colleague of Alexander Rodchenko, with whom in the late 1920s he organized a photographic association, the Oktyabr Group. It was a time of striving and searching for new forms. Creative people, as a rule, fruitfully engaged in several directions at the same time. So Ignatovich was a photographer, a photojournalist, a documentary filmmaker, a journalist, and an illustrator.



This is followed by the greatest Soviet portrait photographer -. Nappelbaum entered the history of photography as an unrivaled studio portrait photographer. Nappelbaum, a master of compositional solutions, approached the light composition in a surprising and original way, in which all the attention of the viewer is accumulated on the person being portrayed. As in the case with, through whose studio all foreign celebrities of the 20th century passed, the greatest representatives of the country of the Soviets, right up to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, passed through the Nappelbaum lens. Nappelbaum enjoyed huge success and popularity good photographer. It is noteworthy that it was he who was invited to photograph the place of death of the great Russian poet - Sergei Yesenin.

Our top ten great Soviet photographers are continued by the first Russian landscape photographer, Vasily Sokornov. One of the first landscape painters who captured the beauty of Russian nature, and especially the Crimea, with a camera, was an artist by education, and a photographer by vocation - Vasily Sokornov. Sokornov's works were very popular during the lifetime of the photographer. Just like the works of , who photographed the nature of Virginia all his life, the works of Sokornov, for the most part, are devoted to the Crimea. They were published in magazines and scattered throughout Russia as postcards. Today it is considered the main chronicler of the Crimean nature of the first decades of the 20th century.

The founder of Russian, Soviet journalistic, social photography - Maxim Dmitriev, occupies the eighth position in our rating. The life and work of Dmitriev is the story of an incredible rise and an equally incredible fall. A native of the Tambov province, a student of the parochial school, by the beginning of the 1900s, Dmitriev became the leading photographer of Moscow. The founder of the photo studio, through which the leading people of the time pass - Ivan Bunin, Fedor Chaliapin, Maxim Gorky. But we love and remember Dmitriev for his chronicle photographs of the Volga region. They concentrate the original life and way of Russia, skillfully noticed by a brilliant photographer. The fall of Dmitriev was the coming to power of the Bolsheviks and widespread dispossession. By the beginning of the 1930s, the artist's photo studio was selected, along with more than seven thousand magnificent local history photographs.





Out of 2604 photos submitted by 481 photographers from different corners of our planet, the jury of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2015 has chosen the most breathtaking landscape photographs to be published in a special competition photo album. The $5,000 International Landscape Photographer of the Year Grand Prix in 2015 went to Luke Austin for his fantastic series of black and white photographs. And the best landscape photography was recognized as a stunning black-and-white work by Luke Tsharka. Be sure to look at these photos, they will no doubt make a great impression on you.

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1. Best landscape photography of 2015. Author: Luke Tshark. Impressive, isn't it? (Photo: Luke Tscharke).
2. 1st place and Best Landscape Photographer of 2015 went to Luke Austin for this amazing series of black and white photographs. (Photo: Luke Austin).
3. The best landscape photographer of 2015 - Luke Austin. (Photo: Luke Austin).
4. 1st place International Competition landscape photography 2015 was taken by photographer Luke Austin. (Photo: Luke Austin).
5. Luke Austin won 1st place at the 2015 International Landscape Photography Competition. (Photo: Luke Austin).
6. 2nd place at the 2015 International Landscape Photography Competition. Photographer - Ricardo da Cunha. (Photo: Ricardo Da Cunha).
7. 2nd place in the 2015 International Landscape Photography Competition. Photographer - Ricardo da Cunha. (Photo: Ricardo Da Cunha).
8. 2nd place in the 2015 International Landscape Photography Competition. Photographer - Ricardo da Cunha. (Photo: Ricardo Da Cunha).
9. 3rd place International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2015. By Warren Keelan. (Photo: Warren Keelan).
10. 3rd place in the 2015 International Landscape Photography Competition. Author: Warren Keelan. (Photo: Warren Keelan).
11. 1st place in the category Mist & Fog (Fog). Author - Gunar Strau. (Photo: Gunar Streu).
12. 1st place in the Long Exposure category. Author: Grant Galbraith. (Photo: Grant Galbraith).
13. 1st place in the category "Aerial Photography". Photographer: Will Dilenberg. (Photo: Grant Galbraith).
15. 1st place in the Snow and Ice category. Author: John Martin. (Photo: Jon Martin).

All photographs of this competition marked by the jury members can be viewed on the official website - er.com.

Photo by Bob West

The very first photograph of a landscape was taken in 1826 by the inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. It depicts the rooftops of the city taken from the window of his workshop. If we use modern terminology, this is an architectural landscape, one of the varieties of the landscape genre. Since then, landscape has remained one of the most popular genres of photography. The typology of landscapes is varied and often specific. Landscapes include city views and architecture, mountains, seascapes, landscape and aerial photographs.

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Amateur photographers are happy to take pictures of landscapes "for memory". Professionals find it difficult, and there aren't many professional landscape photographers out there. Despite the seeming ease of shooting a landscape so that it turns out beautifully, not everyone can do it. Unlike other genres, landscape photography does not have a pronounced plot, and only the talent of a photographer can breathe life into a finished natural drawing, convey a sense of the place itself, its spirit.

In addition to the artistic landscape, it has a high documentary value, since the depicted objects may disappear over time and only a photograph will testify to their existence. The documentary landscape is important for the work of geographers, geologists, historians or nature conservation services.

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This can be confirmed by the work of the famous orientalist Alexander Kuhn. For two years, Kun worked on the creation of the Turkestan Album, dedicated to life and life of the Central Asian region. This rare edition exists only in seven copies and consists of four parts: ethnographic, archaeological, historical and commercial. The album contains over 1000 photographs. The work was completed in 1872. The well-known critic V.V. Stasov noted that “in such a systematic completeness, we have not presented<…>no part of our state."

Documentary photography allows you to see the changes that inevitably occur under the influence of time, and this is what profile landscape photographers work on. For example, by looking at the works of Sergei Proskudin-Gorsky, we can get a complete picture of how the places we knew looked like in the days of tsarist Russia.

In 1909, Tsar Nicholas II instructed Sergei Mikhailovich to capture in color photographs Russian Empire for the purpose of documenting the life of the state. Proskudin-Gorsky traveled to a significant part of Russia, photographing ancient monasteries, temples, city views. To create color photographs, the master used monochrome photographic plates and a special camera. With this apparatus it was possible to make three individual images of the same landscape with different filters (blue, green and red). Then the three obtained images were reduced to one color. During the work, several thousand plates were shot.

The importance of quality photos

In addition to historical and scientific value, documentary photography of landscapes draws attention to environmental issues. For 20 years, the central theme of the work of the famous American landscape photographer Ansel Adams has been the deserted landscapes of the California mountains and deserts. “Photography is a powerful means of expression and communication, has endless variety views, interpretations and performances,” said Ansel Adams. His photographs made a revolution not only in art, but also in political life America. Thanks to Adams' photographs, the Sierra Nevada mountains were recognized a unique monument nature and taken under state protection.

Unlike the work of Ansel Adams, Michael Kenn's photographs are characterized by a certain softness of tone. But like Adams' work, his photographs evoke strong emotional responses. Michael creates amazingly soft yet poignant footage. As a rule, he takes his photographs at night or in the wee hours. Diffused light turns the background, usually rich in detail, into a non-uniformly distributed tonality. Long exposures blur the boundaries of the image, the sky smoothly turns into water, water into stones, and together they form a single whole. His photographs evoke a feeling of amazing peace and tranquility in the viewer.

Entries are accepted until November 4th. The winner will receive a 10-day trip for two to the Galapagos Islands. The winners in individual categories will not be offended either - they will receive $2,500 each.

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1. Green fields of wheat in the Palouse region of Washington state. This area is called American. (Photo by Hamish Mitchell | 2016 national geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):



2. Fox in the snow. (Photo by Hiroki Inoue | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

3. Storm over Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Santiago Borja | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

4. Waves on the coast in Australia. (Photo by Warren Keelan | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

5. Lava lake and madman (right). (Photo by Gaby Barathieu | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

6. Sleeping walrus on the coast of Chukotka, Russia. (Photo by Mike Korostelev | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

7. Thousands of flamingos on Lake Bogoria in Kenya. (Photo by u Huiping | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

8. Licks his lips. Hare and the last grass in Scotland. (Photo by Jamie Snr | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

9. Waves in Hawaii. (Photo by Lee Scott | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

10. Alien. More precisely, it is a squid. (Photo by Matthew Smith | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

11. Bear in the river catches salmon, Kamchatka. (Photo by Mike Korostelev | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

12. Landscapes of Greenland. (Photo by Ken Bower | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

13. Help! Foxes. (Photo by Henrik Nilsson | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

14. Walk over the fjord in Norway. (Photo by Fred Marie | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

15. Leopard and its prey in national park Kruger. (Photo by Daniela Deutzer | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

16. Bear hug, Alaska. (Photo by Aaron Baggenstos | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

17. From heaven to earth. Lightning in Tuscany. (Photo by Gilbert Fitoussi | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

18. Mosquitoes get the turtle. (Photo by Jerry am Ende | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

19. Underwater butterfly in Atlantic Ocean. (Photo by Suzan Meldonian | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

20. Fox in the Swiss Alps. (Photo by Kathryn Cooper | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

21. Terrible hippopotamus. (Photo by Sam Kurtul | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year):

22. Portrait of a puffin off the coast of Maine. (Photo by Harry Collins | 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Yea):