Portraits by Alexey Nikishin

A good portrait it not that is similar to model, and that is not similar to anybody another. It opens private world of the person, its character, but does not do it directly. After all it is obvious that the photo never fascinates us so strongly as when we, intensifying attention, we understand only half of its language. The latent harmony is much stronger than the obvious. Beauty visible - on a surface. And invisible - beauty of relations and nuances - inside.

- Alexey Nikishin

Photo Festival Naarden 2011

let's face it

Hunters

David Chancellor is documenting the game industry in Sub Saharan Africa. Wealthy European and American visitors paid settler farmers to guide them on hunting safaris in the area. Similar tourist hunting industries soon developed elsewhere in Africa.
Animal rights groups fundamentally oppose hunting and there is a lack of consensus among conservationists regarding the acceptability and efficacy of hunting as a conservation tool....

Winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010

hunters