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.

Perspectives on Nature • Reading its whispering voice

Disorder • Cameraless photography serves as a tool for close observation here, enabling place, process, and personal experience to merge. In Disorder, Jeremy Blair works outdoors with a self-constructed darkroom, creating photograms from found natural materials shaped by light, chemistry, and shifting environmental conditions. Each image is developed on site, bearing the imprint of specific locations and moments. The works function as silent records of encounter, where ecological systems and internal rhythms mirror each other through material and light.

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The Material Life of Plants • Teri Figliuzzi's photographic practice is grounded in attentiveness, care, and material intimacy. Working primarily with botanicals and alternative photographic processes, she approaches photography as an act of gathering, preservation, and sustained looking. Her images do not seek to arrest time but to remain with it, allowing growth, decay, and renewal to remain visible within the frame. Rooted in personal experience and shaped by a lifelong relationship with the natural world, her work reflects on impermanence, resilience, and the beauty embedded in transition. Through cyanotypes, lumens, phytograms, and tactile interventions, Figliuzzi creates images that function as visual pauses, inviting viewers to reconsider how value, beauty, and meaning persist across every stage of life. By working with materials that are themselves vulnerable, she draws attention to states often overlooked. “The central message in my work is a focus on life's continual transformation, its beauty, fragility, and subtle transitions.”

Blueprints, Botanicals, and the Contemporary Cyanotype • Cyanotype's journey from a nineteenth-century scientific tool to a contemporary photographic language reveals a profound shift in how images are created and understood. Once valued for precision and reproducibility, the process has been reclaimed as a medium of slowness, material sensitivity, and attentiveness to natural cycles. This transformation reflects a broader movement away from documentation toward dialogue, in which photographs emerge through collaboration with light, time, and organic matter rather than through control or mastery. In this context, cyanotype's contemporary significance lies not in nostalgia, but in its ability to hold uncertainty, care, and a renewed ethics of looking—inviting images to function less as records and more as sites of relationship.

Open Call The Inner Lens • Photography as a form of introspection and emotional resonance

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Life Of The Land • With Life of the Land, Leslie Gleim presents an expansive aerial meditation on Hawai‘i Island, where the landscape emerges as both a living record and a site of quiet reflection. Photographed from a helicopter, the series transforms a bird's-eye view into an act of deep listening, where light, time and form converge. Ancient lava flows and fissures unfold like a geological manuscript, carrying fragments of Hawai‘i's mo‘olelo and speaking to cycles of resilience, destruction and renewal. More than topographical studies, Gleim's images operate as visual meditations–quiet, attentive works that honour the spirit of the ‘āina and invite viewers into a slower, more reflective way of seeing.

Ice as the pencil of nature • A...