# Emaho Magazine


## Posts

- [Deanna Templeton: “I Still Have a Lot to Share That Hasn’t Been Seen Before” - On Youth, Memory, Photography and the Stories That Remain](https://emahomagazine.com/deanne-templeton-i-still-have-a-lot-to-share-that-hasnt-been-seen-before-on-youth-memory-photography-and-the-stories-that-remain/): In this interview, Deanna Templeton reflects on the unexpected beginnings of her photographic life, the punk and skate worlds that shaped her vision, and the deeply personal journey behind What She Said. She discusses vulnerability, memory, female identity, collaboration with Ed, and stories she still hopes to bring into view.
- [Maylis Tassin & Charles Tassin of Galerie MAY: “We Want to Write the Pages of the Decorative Arts of the 21st Century” - On French Craftsmanship and the Making of Timeless Interiors](https://emahomagazine.com/maylis-tassin-charles-tassin-of-galerie-may-we-want-to-write-the-pages-of-the-decorative-arts-of-the-21st-century-on-french-craftsmanship-and-the-making-of-timeless-interior/): In this interview, Maylis and Charles Tassin discuss the philosophy behind Galerie MAY, their creative language, and their belief in decorative arts as culture. From French craftsmanship and 1940s design to bold colour and emerging artists, they explain why interiors should carry emotion, history, harmony, and a sense of pleasure.
- [Kaveh Kazemi: “My Policy Has Been Not to Fear the Fear” – On Revolution, War and Four Decades of Photojournalism](https://emahomagazine.com/kaveh-kazemi-my-policy-has-been-not-to-fear-the-fear-on-revolution-war-and-four-decades-of-photojournalism/): In this interview, Kaveh Kazemi reflects on a career shaped by revolution, war and documentary photography. From his photographs of Iran’s revolutionary decade to his work across international conflicts, Kazemi discusses photographic responsibility, historical memory and the human cost of witnessing events from within. His archive and publications are documented.
- [Lucille Reyboz & Yusuke Nakanishi: “It’s Often in Those Tensions That New Ideas Emerge” - The Founders of KYOTOGRAPHIE on Photography, Kyoto and Building Bridges Between Japan and the World](https://emahomagazine.com/lucille-reyboz-yusuke-nakanishi-its-often-in-those-tensions-that-new-ideas-emerge-the-founders-of-kyotographie-on-photography-kyoto-and-building-bridges-between-ja/): In this interview, Lucille Reyboz and Yusuke Nakanishi reflect on building KYOTOGRAPHIE from Kyoto’s cultural fabric into an international platform for photography. They discuss creative friction, Japanese photographers, AI, site specific exhibitions, and the festival’s global ambitions, revealing how curiosity, cultural exchange, and unexpected perspectives continue to shape their vision.
- [Charlotte Yonga: “I Wanted to Photograph What Passes Between People” - On Love, Intimacy, Identity and the Poetry of Human Connection](https://emahomagazine.com/charlotte-yonga-i-wanted-to-photograph-what-passes-between-people-on-love-intimacy-identity-and-the-poetry-of-human-connection/): In this interview, Charlotte Yonga discusses how photography became a way of connecting with reality, exploring identity, love, displacement and belonging. Her practice moves between intimate portraiture and landscape, with Naam Na La emerging from a 2021 Senegal residency. She reflects on ambiguity, tenderness, representation and the evolving voices shaping photography.
- [Truls Blaasmo: “I Want Visitors to Dream” - On Art Advisory, Curating and Building Experiences Beyond the White Cube](https://emahomagazine.com/truls-blaasmo-i-want-visitors-to-dream-on-art-advisory-curating-and-building-experiences-beyond-the-white-cube/): In this interview, Truls Blaasmo reflects on advising collectors across art markets, curating with emotion, and creating exhibitions shaped by architecture. From Fotografiska Shanghai and OMA to Gucci projects, Blaasmo discusses cultural dialogue, collecting, and his belief that art should create unexpected experiences, encourage curiosity, and invite visitors to dream.
- [Daisuke Hirabayashi: “Staying Naive Despite All the Knowledge Is Something I Strive For” - On Architecture, Photography and Learning to See Intuitively](https://emahomagazine.com/daisuke-hirabayashi-staying-naive-despite-all-the-knowledge-is-something-i-strive-for-on-architecture-photography-and-learning-to-see-intuitively/): In this interview, Daisuke Hirabayashi reflects on architecture, photography, and the process connecting both disciplines. From Herzog & de Meuron to his practice, he discusses learning across cultures, photographing Koechlin House, and finding freedom through self initiated projects. His approach values curiosity, instinct, experimentation, and the lived experience of buildings.
- [Ghazal Marvi: “Living Joyfully Is a Philosophical Stance” - The Iranian Painter on Youth, Imagination and the Art of Defying Boredom](https://emahomagazine.com/ghazal-marvi-living-joyfully-is-a-philosophical-stance-the-iranian-painter-on-youth-imagination-and-the-art-of-defying-boredom/): Ghazal Marvi paints Tehran through youthful energy, imagination, and an instinct for joy. Her figures inhabit a world where surreal gestures meet everyday reality, while friendship, memory, freedom, and boredom shape the atmosphere. Across Homa exhibitions, Marvi has developed a distinctive visual language that treats painting as celebration and resistance. 
- [Diamant Versatile: “I Want Furniture That Continues to Communicate When It Isn’t Being Used” – On Spatial Presence, Material and Contemporary Design](https://emahomagazine.com/diamant-versatile-i-want-furniture-that-continues-to-communicate-when-it-isnt-being-used-on-spatial-presence-material-and-contemporary-design/): Between Brussels and Paris, Diamant Versatile finds inspiration in two contrasting rhythms, transforming architectural discipline, movement, and material tension into collectible design. Diamant Bytyci approaches furniture as spatial presence, balancing function with sculpture and architecture. His practice embraces experimentation, classical references, contemporary minimalism, and objects designed to communicate beyond use.
- [JH Engström: “I’m Far From Done Yet” – On Photography, Instinct and the Freedom of Not Knowing](https://emahomagazine.com/jh-engstrom-im-far-from-done-yet-on-photography-instinct-and-the-freedom-of-not-knowing/): JH Engström’s photography emerges from the tension between places, memories, energies, and uncertainty. Moving between rural Värmland and Paris, he has built a deeply personal practice that embraces accident, vulnerability, and mystery. Now exploring painting, film, and writing, Engström remains committed to staying close to what he does not understand.
- [Holly Terry: "I Don't Find This Period of Exploration Frustrating at All" – On Painting, Contentment and Building a Practice from the Australian Coast](https://emahomagazine.com/holly-terry-i-dont-find-this-period-of-exploration-frustrating-at-all-on-painting-contentment-and-building-a-practice-from-the-australian-coast/): This interview traces Holly Terry's path from studying politics to full-time abstract painting after burnout. She discusses her two Sunshine Coast studios, slogans and motifs in her work, formative years with fellow artists, rapid early exhibitions, growing international shows, her yoga-rooted interest in contentment, and her Substack writing practice.
- [Oumayma Ben Tanfous: “The Book Definitely Helped Heal Some Wounds” - On Photography, Culture and Finding Her Way Back to Tunisia](https://emahomagazine.com/oumayma-ben-tanfous-the-book-definitely-helped-heal-some-wounds-on-photography-culture-and-finding-her-way-back-to-tunisia/): For Oumayma Ben Tanfous, photography became a way of returning to Tunisia, twenty years after leaving. Her debut photobook, Between I and Lands, brings together images and journal entries shaped by childhood memories, distance and belonging. Through the work, she explores the fragile relationship between place, identity and the feeling of home.
- [Olgaç Bozalp: “Returning to Those Memories Finally Helped Me Find My Voice” - The Turkish Photographer on Home, Identity and Belonging](https://emahomagazine.com/olgac-bozalp-returning-to-those-memories-finally-helped-me-find-my-voice-the-turkish-photographer-on-home-identity-and-belonging/): Olgaç Bozalp discusses growing up disconnected in Konya, discovering photography through acting, and rejecting the "hybrid" identity label. He reflects on photographing his father, diaspora communities, and Islamic countries where using his middle name "Mustafa" brought unexpected belonging. He explores fashion versus art, diversity's uneven progress, and his patient, relational approach to portraiture.
- [Fanny Robin: “The Most Powerful Projects Arise From a Form of Shared Trust” - On Curating Art and Fondation Bullukian](https://emahomagazine.com/fanny-robin-the-most-powerful-projects-arise-from-a-form-of-shared-trust-on-curating-art-and-fondation-bullukian/): In this interview, Fanny Robin traces her curatorial path from a formative visit to the Fondation Maeght through art historical and business training, her fifteen years directing Fondation Bullukian, founding Campagne Première, and her BMW ART MAKERS 
- [Letícia Zamboni: “To Create Something Truly Unique, You First Need to Understand What Makes That Person Unique” - The Brazilian Architect on Eccentricity, Futurism and Creative Identity](https://emahomagazine.com/leticia-zamboni-to-create-something-truly-unique-you-first-need-to-understand-what-makes-that-person-unique-the-brazilian-architect-on-eccentricity-futurism-and-creative-identity/): In this interview, Letícia Zamboni discusses her architectural roots in Pato Branco, Studio Lunno's philosophy of timeless futurism, and Paradoxia, her Tokyo studio with Japanese partners. She explores eccentricity, her furniture line, client trust, a music-centered apartment project that spawned TARZ speakers, and her dream of designing in Sweden or Norway.
- [Thana Faroq: “A Photograph Is Never Innocent” - On Migration, Memory and What Images Cannot Hold](https://emahomagazine.com/thana-faroq-a-photograph-is-never-innocent-on-migration-memory-and-what-images-cannot-hold/): In this interview, photographer Thana Faroq discusses her Yemeni roots, unconventional academic path blending politics with photography, and acclaimed book 'I Don't Recognize Me in the Shadows'. She reflects on exile, identity, and long-term relationships with subjects in asylum centers, her use of text as image, mentorship of women photographers, and her debut film 'Imagine Me Like a Country of Love'.
- [Tara Aghdashloo: “I’m a poet first, everything else arrived later" - From Persian Art to the Language of Cinema & Storytelling](https://emahomagazine.com/tara-aghdashloo-im-a-poet-first-everything-else-arrived-later-from-persian-art-to-the-language-of-cinema-storytelling/): This interview traces Tara Aghdashloo's journey from a creative Tehran upbringing through journalism, curation, poetry, and painting into filmmaking. She discusses mentors Makhmalbaf and Naderi, her shorts The Ride, Bridge, and Empty Your Pockets, themes of systemic entrapment.
- [César Levy of 193 Gallery: Building a Gallery Beyond the Map of the Global South](https://emahomagazine.com/cesar-levy-of-193-gallery-building-a-gallery-beyond-the-map-of-the-global-south/): César Levy discusses leaving a decade in strategic consulting to found 193 Gallery, explaining how economic intelligence training shapes his business approach while artistic decisions remain guided by a mission to decentralize the art world's Eurocentric narrative and champion underrepresented voices from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.
- [Emin Ozmen: Documenting Turkey's Unfinished History Through Photography](https://emahomagazine.com/emin-ozmen-documenting-turkeys-unfinished-history-through-photography/): From the trauma of the 1993 Sivas massacre to documenting wars, displacement and political upheaval across Turkey and the Middle East, Magnum photographer Emin Özmen reflects on memory, conflict, hope and the responsibility of bearing witness. A deeply personal conversation about photography as history, evidence and an enduring act of conscience. 
- [Manuela Wyszynski: Building Manushi and the Art of Curating Timeless Objects](https://emahomagazine.com/manuela-wyszynski-building-manushi-and-the-art-of-curating-timeless-objects/): For Manuela Wyszynski, great design is never just about beauty. In this interview with Emaho, the founder of Manushi reflects on vintage objects, patina, craftsmanship and curation, explaining why the most meaningful interiors are built through memory, emotion and timeless pieces that are cherished, lived with and passed between generations. 
- [Ed Kashi: Four Decades of Witnessing Humanity Through Photography](https://emahomagazine.com/ed-kashi-four-decades-of-witnessing-humanity-through-photography/): For more than four decades, Ed Kashi has documented some of the world’s defining human, environmental and social crises through photography and film. In this conversation with Emaho, the acclaimed National Geographic photographer reflects on visual storytelling, long-form documentary practice, climate change, conflict, multimedia journalism, and why bearing witness remains one of photography’s most enduring responsibilities.
- [Andrea Bonini: Designing the Soul of Stone and Steel with Italian Craftsmanship](https://emahomagazine.com/andrea-bonini-designing-the-soul-of-stone-and-steel-with-italian-craftsmanship/): "Authenticity begins with the material itself. For Andrea Bonini, marble and steel are not simply construction elements but the emotional foundation of every project. In this conversation with Emaho, the Italian designer reflects on craftsmanship, timeless luxury, and why true design is shaped by materials, culture, and enduring quality."
- [Anna Planas: Shaping the future of Photography at Paris Photo - the World's Most Important Photography Fair](https://emahomagazine.com/anna-planas-shaping-the-future-of-photography-at-paris-photo-the-worlds-most-important-photography-fair/):  In this interview with Emaho Magazine, Anna Planas reflects on her journey from Magnum Photos to becoming Artistic Director of Paris Photo, discussing curatorial practice, photobooks, AI, the evolving role of photography, and how one of the world's leading photography fairs continues to shape the future of the medium. 
- [Roham Babaei Fard: Making Iranian Art Wearable, One Piece at a Time](https://emahomagazine.com/roham-babaei-fard-making-iranian-art-wearable-one-piece-at-a-time/): In this interview with Emaho Magazine, Roham Babaei Fard explores the intersection of architecture, nature, and jewelry design. Inspired by historical artifacts, antique adornments, and the intricate forms of flowers, birds, and insects, he shares how memory, craftsmanship, and material experimentation inform his contemporary practice and distinctive visual language.
- [Roy Kahmann: The Architect of Dutch Photography's Global Moment with GUP, Fresh Eyes and the Hungry Eye Fair](https://emahomagazine.com/roy-kahmann-the-architect-of-dutch-photographys-global-moment-with-gup-fresh-eyes-and-the-hungry-eye-fair/): In this interview with Emaho Magazine, Roy Kahmann reflects on four decades of championing photography through GUP Magazine, Fresh Eyes, and the Hungry Eye Group. He discusses collecting photographic prints, supporting emerging talent, the enduring value of photography books, and why the physical print remains central in an increasingly digital world.
- [Alberto Essesi: Industrial Design, Risk, and the Courage to Innovate](https://emahomagazine.com/alberto-essesi-industrial-design-risk-and-the-courage-to-innovate/): In this interview with Emaho Magazine, industrial designer Alberto Esses reflects on his journey from Tesla and Mytra Robotics to co-founding Essesi, sharing his philosophy on innovation, collectible design, AI, craftsmanship and creative freedom. He discusses why curiosity, risk-taking and thinking beyond categories remain central to meaningful design.
- [Begum Yamanlar: Memory, Ruin and Photographing Vanishing Spaces](https://emahomagazine.com/begum-yamanlar-memory-ruin-and-photographing-vanishing-spaces/): Turkish photographer and visual artist Begum Yamanlar explores the fragile intersections of memory, architecture, landscape, and time. In this conversation with EMAHO, she reflects on vanishing spaces, Istanbul's evolving identity, photography as a medium of remembrance, AI, and why the unseen often reveals more than the visible.
- [Padideh Azin: Preserving the Spirit of Iranian Architecture](https://emahomagazine.com/padideh-azin-preserving-the-spirit-of-iranian-architecture/): Iranian architect and designer Padideh Azin works at the intersection of heritage, restoration, and contemporary living. In this Emaho conversation, the co-founder of Ravagh reflects on preserving the spirit of historic Iranian spaces, balancing past and present, and why architecture in Iran must reconnect with its own cultural identity and memory.
- [Hind Magoul: The Moroccan Designer Bringing Zellige, Craft, and Modern Elegance to the World](https://emahomagazine.com/hind-magoul-the-moroccan-designer-bringing-zellige-craft-and-modern-elegance-to-the-world/): Moroccan designer Hind Magoul brings traditional zellige craftsmanship into contemporary interiors with a refined sense of modern elegance. In this Emaho interview, she discusses how hand‑cut Moroccan tiles, heritage techniques, and local artistry shape her global design language, merging cultural memory with clean, luxurious spaces.
- [Kim Mupangilai: Memory, Material, and the Space Between Worlds](https://emahomagazine.com/kim-mupangilai-memory-material-and-the-space-between-worlds/): New York-based Belgian-Congolese designer, interior architect, and Parsons School of Design educator Kim Mupangilaï works in the space where memory, identity, and material culture converge. Winner of the 2024 Boghossian Foundation International Prize, she reflects in this Emaho conversation on heritage, belonging, collectible design, and how Congolese influences and Belgian Art Nouveau shape her deeply personal design language rooted in cultural dialogue.
- [Kris Van Assche: The Dior and Berluti Designer Redefining Life Beyond Fashion](https://emahomagazine.com/kris-van-assche-the-dior-and-berluti-designer-redefining-life-beyond-fashion/): Belgian fashion designer and former Dior Homme and Berluti creative director Kris Van Assche reflects on reinvention, creative freedom, and life beyond luxury fashion. In this exclusive *Emaho* interview, he discusses identity, craftsmanship, design, and what two decades at fashion’s highest level ultimately taught him. 
- [Elnaz Taghaddos: Architecture, Emotion, and the Art of Shaping Space with ET'STUDIO](https://emahomagazine.com/elnaz-taghaddos-architecture-emotion-and-the-art-of-shaping-space-with-etstudio/): In this interview with *Emaho*, Elnaz Taghaddos reflects on architecture as an emotional language, tracing her journey from curation to founding ET’STUDIO. She discusses spatial storytelling, materiality, and the quiet power of design in shaping how people feel, connect, and experience space. 
- [Emily Garthwaite: Photographing Iraq, Ritual, and Resilience](https://emahomagazine.com/emily-garthwaite-photographing-iraq-ritual-and-resilience/): In this interview with *Emaho*, Emily Garthwaite reflects on years of photographing Iraq through a deeply human lens, documenting life along the Tigris River, rituals, resilience, and environmental change. Challenging conflict-driven narratives, she reveals a country shaped as much by memory, beauty, and everyday life as by crisis. 
- [Constantin Prorozov: The New Language of Collage, Memory and Surreal Luxury](https://emahomagazine.com/constantin-prorozov-the-new-language-of-collage-memory-and-surreal-luxury/): In this Emaho interview, Constantin Prozorov discusses his surreal collage practice, where fashion, memory, and visual storytelling merge into dreamlike luxury worlds. Based in Paris, the German digital artist creates layered narratives that bridge art, culture, and fantasy, transforming collage into a contemporary language of imagination and refinement.
- [Linda Zhengova: Photographing Eroticism, Memory and the Politics of Being Seen](https://emahomagazine.com/linda-zhengova-photographing-eroticism-memory-and-the-politics-of-being-seen/): Czech Chinese photographer and writer Linda Zhengová moves between memory, trauma, eroticism and human connection with startling emotional honesty. In this intimate conversation with Emaho Magazine, she reflects on cross cultural identity, intimacy, photography, censorship, happiness, and the politics of truly being seen.
- [Nour Al Asadi: The Iraqi Mixed-Media Artist Shaping Layered Worlds](https://emahomagazine.com/nour-al-asadi-the-egyptian-mixed-media-artist-shaping-layered-worlds/): In this Emaho feature, Iraqi mixed‑media artist Nour al Asadi is presented as a layered storyteller whose work fuses illustration, architecture, and graphic design. The interview explores how she constructs rich, color‑driven worlds that foreground women’s narratives, identity, and emotional depth, positioning her practice at the intersection of art, design, and contemporary Cairo’s visual culture.
- [Sophia Taillet: The French Designer Reimagining Poetics of Material in Contemporary Design](https://emahomagazine.com/sophia-taillet-the-french-designer-reimagining-poetics-of-material-in-contemporary-design/): In this Emaho interview, French designer Sophia Taillet discusses how she reimagines the poetics of material within contemporary design, moving fluidly between art, choreography, and object‑making. Trained in Paris and New York, she explores motion, gesture, and light through glass, metal, and sculptural forms, turning material intuition into a poetic language of movement and matter.
- [Hanie Rahimian & Shiva Abazariyan: Inside Iran’s New Sculptural Language of Memory and Desire](https://emahomagazine.com/hanie-rahimian-shiva-abazariyan-inside-irans-new-sculptural-language-of-memory-and-desire/): In this Emaho feature, Hanie Rahimian and Shiva Abazariyan emerge as a significant Iranian artist duo from Mashhad, redefining contemporary sculptural language through paper mache, ceramics, and installation. The interview explores how their collaborative practice channels memory, desire, and everyday fantasy into a shared, materially rich visual vocabulary.
- [Ismail Zaidy: A Rooftop Photographer from Morocco](https://emahomagazine.com/ismail-zaidy-a-rooftop-photographer-from-morocco/): Ismail Zaidy is a self‑taught Moroccan photographer who turned the rooftop of his family home in Marrakech into Studio Sa3ada, a “Studio of Happiness” and his primary creative sanctuary. In this Emaho interview, he speaks about capturing memory, family, and everyday poetry from above, tracing his journey from mobile‑phone experiments on the rooftop to international recognition in contemporary art and fashion. 
- [Irene Noren: Between Two Worlds of Tension, Intuition, and Transformation](https://emahomagazine.com/irene-noren-between-two-worlds-of-tension-intuition-and-transformation/): Irene Noren is a Spanish‑Norwegian painter bridging tension, intuition, and transformation through her atmospheric oil paintings. In this Emaho interview, she speaks about moving between two worlds- her dual heritage, inner spiritual journey, and evolving practice - revealing how emotional ambiguity and intuition shape her quiet, image‑rich body of work. 
- [Holly Lucas: The Art of Experience in a Post-Disciplinary Design World with Bureau of Innovation](https://emahomagazine.com/holly-lucas-the-art-of-experience-in-a-post-disciplinary-design-world-with-bureau-of-innovation/): Holly Lucas is a cross‑disciplinary curator and creative strategist who bridges hospitality, cultural programming, and post‑disciplinary design through Bureau of Innovation (BOI). In this Emaho interview, she reflects on how BOI shapes immersive contexts for collectible furniture and objects, redefining curation as the art of experience in a world where design, art, and commerce increasingly overlap.
- [Pierre Terdjman: From War Zones to City Walls, Rewriting the Life of an Image](https://emahomagazine.com/pierre-terdjman-from-war-zones-to-city-walls-rewriting-the-life-of-an-image/): In his interview with Emaho, Pierre Terdjman traces a trajectory from frontline photojournalism to redefining how images live in public space. From conflict zones to the streets through Dysturb, his work challenges visibility, memory, and authorship—transforming photography into a civic act that resists erasure and reclaims attention.
- [Serena Garcia: Weaving Time, Memory, and Material into Form](https://emahomagazine.com/serena-garcia-weaving-time-memory-and-material-into-form/):  Chilean textile artist Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia transforms humble fabric and thread into monumental organic sculptures in her Emaho interview. Through patient, prehistoric gestures—wrapping, stitching—she builds chaotic growths evoking nature's interconnected roots, memory's accumulation, and endless material expansion. 
- [Jedda Daisy Culley: The Monstrous, the Maternal, the Unbound](https://emahomagazine.com/jedda-daisy-culley-the-monstrous-the-maternal-the-unbound/): Australian artist Jedda-Daisy Culley unleashes feminist fury in her Emaho interview - dissecting motherhood's rage through fluid steel sculptures and mythic portraits. From UNSW MFA to Paris residencies, she channels Louise Bourgeois' legacy, unbounding female archetypes in visceral, transformative power. 
- [Aymen Al-Ameri: Framing Iraq Beyond Conflict](https://emahomagazine.com/aymen-al-ameri-framing-iraq-beyond-conflict/): Baghdad photographer Aymen Al-Ameri reframes post-conflict resilience in his Emaho interview. Through poignant portraits and urban aftermaths, he captures Iraqi cultural memory and daily endurance—from endangered marshes to Baghdad streets—transcending war narratives for intimate human stories. 
- [Emilia Yin: The Architecture of Attention in Contemporary Art](https://emahomagazine.com/emilia-yin-the-architecture-of-attention-in-contemporary-art/): LA gallerist Emilia Yin illuminates Make Room's ethos in Emaho - crafting intimate spaces where Asian diaspora artists evolve beyond trends. From Hollywood's incubator to global dialogues, she architects attention for bold voices, redefining LA's contemporary scene with unwavering focus. 
- [Pauline Leprince: The Poetry of Structure in Steel, Light, and Emotion](https://emahomagazine.com/pauline-leprince-the-poetry-of-structure-in-steel-light-and-emotion/): Parisian designer Pauline Leprince reimagines Karl Lagerfeld's legacy through Bauhaus-infused steel, light, and emotional geometry in her Emaho interview. From École Camondo training to cinematic scenographies, she fuses avant-garde minimalism with sustainable poetry - crafting intimate, luminous sanctuaries that breathe. 
- [Alymamah Rashed: Where Mythology Meets the Material](https://emahomagazine.com/alymamah-rashed-where-mythology-meets-the-material/): Kuwaiti artist Alymamah Rashed opens portals to personal mythologies in her Emaho interview. Seashells whisper rebirth, bodies cradle longing - transforming Dior bags and Piaget jewels into spiritual tapestries. From Kuwait's bold scene, she merges ancestral gestures with global craft, defying obstacles through intuitive vision. 
- [Boldizar Senteski: Post-Soviet Tension in Glass, Patina and the Art of Reduction](https://emahomagazine.com/boldizar-senteski-post-soviet-tension-in-glass-patina-and-the-art-of-reduction/): Dive into Boldizar Senteski's Emaho Magazine interview, "Post-Soviet Tension in Glass, Patina, and the Art of Reduction." The Budapest-raised designer explores opulence-industrial clashes via distressed mirrors, glass, and metals - embracing oxidation, un-calculated errors, and durational craft for timeless functional art.
- [Amine Amharech: Redefining Contemporary Art and Design Curation](https://emahomagazine.com/amine-amharech-redefining-contemporary-art-and-design-curation/): In this Emaho Magazine interview, Moroccan architect-curator Amine Amharech talks about the intersection of architecture, scenography, and exhibition-making. Rooted in Moroccan modernism yet globally engaged, his practice explores how space can shape cultural narratives, perception, and identity across contemporary art and design.
- [Paulina Cerda: Slowness, Fragments, and Chile's Quiet Material Pause](https://emahomagazine.com/paulina-cerda/): In this Emaho Magazine interview, Chilean artist Paulina Cerda channels geographic isolation into slow, material processes where fragments and erosion embody unresolved tensions. Rejecting landscape representation, her restrained works sustain fragile pauses—inviting ambiguity, memory, and listening amid Latin America's conceptually quiet contemporary practices. 
- [UMA Studio's Michelle Song & Amber Pan: Restraint, Light, and Eastern Spatial Pause](https://emahomagazine.com/uma-studios-michelle-song-amber-pan-restraint-light-and-eastern-spatial-pause/): In this Emaho Magazine interview, UMA Studio's Amber Pan and Michelle Song unpack their layered East Asian influences, choreographing daylight as material and texture as expression. Rejecting minimalism clichés, they refine spatial clarity—ma voids, custom millwork—for private, anti-spectacle homes evolving toward architecture. 
- [Meng Zhou: "Keeper of the Cosmos - Myth, Material, and the Poetics of Time"](https://emahomagazine.com/meng-zhou-keeper-of-the-cosmos-myth-material-and-the-poetics-of-time/): In this Emaho Magazine interview, Meng Zhou (RCA MA 2018) traces her journey from China to London, channeling meteorites, shells, and burnt wood into Il Trovatore's spatial memories and Star Chart's cosmic mapping. As "Keeper of the Fire," she probes ecology, myth, and time's erosions across Dust to Dust and Hero Game. 
- [Karen Paulina Biswell: “Against Extraction: Photography, Right to Opacity, and the Refusal to Translate”](https://emahomagazine.com/karen-paulina-biswell-against-extraction-photography-right-to-opacity-and-the-refusal-to-translate/): In this Emaho Magazine interview, Colombian-French photographer Karen Paulina Biswell reflects on 14 years collaborating with Emberá-Chamí artist Maria Amilbia Siagama. Rejecting extractive gazes, she explores shared authorship, photographic negatives in "Adua," Glissant's opacity, and decolonial rituals—questioning identity, legibility, and trust across Paris and Bogotá. 
- [Sunday-S Gallerist Peter Ibsen: "If I don't understand an art work, I like to stay with it longer, read more, talk to the artist, and allow myself to be challenged"](https://emahomagazine.com/sunday-s-gallerist-peter-ibsen-if-i-dont-understand-an-art-work-i-like-to-stay-with-it-longer-read-more-talk-to-the-artist-and-allow-myself-to-be-challenged/): In this Emaho Magazine interview, Sunday-S Gallery founder Peter Ibsen recounts overhauling his collection after a monochrome work defied interpretation, sparking a focus on minimalism's perceptual depth. He explores friction-driven curation, domestic displays in Copenhagen/Paris homes, painting's physical vitality, and loyalty amid speculation.
- [Bogdan Ciocodeica: "From Meaningful Architecture to Intimate Objects – Scale as an Emotional Measure"](https://emahomagazine.com/bogdan-ciocodeica-from-meaningful-architecture-to-intimate-objects-scale-as-an-emotional-measure/): In this exclusive Emaho Magazine interview, Romanian architect Bogdan Ciocodeica explores the emotional spectrum of scale—from grand architectural statements to intimate, tactile objects. He reveals how meaningful design bridges human experience, blending minimalism, material poetry, and scenographic intuition to evoke vulnerability and presence in everyday spaces.  
- [Arielle Assouline-Lichten: Elevating Industrial Material into Contemporary Luxury with Slash Objects](https://emahomagazine.com/arielle-assouline-lichten-elevating-industrial-material-into-contemporary-luxury-with-slash-objects/): Architect-turned-designer Arielle Assouline-Lichten elevates recycled rubber and stone into Slash Objects that defy art-design binaries. Her disciplined practice - rooted in geometry, material honesty, and industrial collaboration - transforms absence into inevitable forms for galleries, fairs, and lived spaces. 
- [Mathias Depardon: “Mapping Identity and Territory - From Transanatolia to the Rivers of Mesopotamia”](https://emahomagazine.com/mathias-depardon-mapping-identity-and-territory-from-transanatolia-to-the-rivers-of-mesopotamia/): French photographer Mathias Depardon charts fragile identities and power in Transanatolia, Tigris-Euphrates basins, and sand extraction crises. From Kurdish borders to GAP dams' ecological toll, his slow journalism probes geopolitics, environment, and forgotten voices across Turkey, Iraq, and beyond. 
- [Auronda Scalera & Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti: "Beyond Gatekeeping - Curating Power, Ethics, and the Middle East’s Cultural Future”](https://emahomagazine.com/auronda-scalera-dr-alfredo-cramerotti-beyond-gatekeeping-curating-power-ethics-and-the-middle-easts-cultural-future/): Curator duo Auronda Scalera and Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti redefine curation beyond gatekeeping - as ethical translators navigating AI authorship, Middle East's experimental institutions, and slow intelligence against tech speed. They spotlight urgent artists like Hito Steyerl and Tabita Rezaire. 
- ["Architecture Listens Back: Paris based CORPUS Studio's Corporeal Dialogue with Place and Time"](https://emahomagazine.com/architecture-listens-back-paris-based-corpus-studios-corporeal-dialogue-with-place-and-time/): In this exclusive Emaho Magazine interview, Paris-based CORPUS Studio founders Konrad Steffensen and Ronan Le Grand unveil their corporeal architecture philosophy: spaces where the body performs and buildings listen back, inspired by Merleau-Ponty. From Lake Como villas embracing genius loci to BB furniture's patina and Cherche-Midi Penthouse minimalism, explore their timeless dialogue with place, material, and time. 
- [Sahar Khalkhalian: "From Tehran War Sirens to Global Canvases"](https://emahomagazine.com/sahar-khalkhalian-from-tehran-war-sirens-to-global-canvases/): Tehran-born Sahar Khalkhalian, granddaughter of painter Houshang Pezeshknia, channels Iran-Iraq War fragility and migration - from Germany to Vancouver/Dubai - into faceless figures of isolation and fractured identity. This Emaho interview delves into her intuitive, emotion-fueled canvases, Turbulent exhibition, and New York's pivotal shows. 
- [Katarina Abovic: "From Chilean Roots to Nomadic Canvases: Painting the Body's Unexplainable Energy"](https://emahomagazine.com/katarina-abovic-from-chilean-roots-to-nomadic-canvases-painting-the-bodys-unexplainable-energy/): Chilean painter Katarina Abović (b.1988) channels her painter grandmother's influence and depression's healing into Dynamic Painting—blurring body, energy, and abstraction. From Chilean roots to residencies in Vietnam, Honduras, and Croatia, this Emaho interview unveils her nomadic quest for consciousness's "unexplainable space" through layered canvases. 
- [Michelle Loukidis: "Shaping Africa's Photographic Future: Mentorship, Tombe, and Transient Childhoods"](https://emahomagazine.com/michelle-loukidis-shaping-africas-photographic-future-mentorship-tombe-and-transient-childhoods/): From capturing childhood's vanishing essence on film to radicalizing her view at Johannesburg's Market Photo Workshop, Michelle Loukidis now shapes Africa's photography scene. This Emaho interview explores The Lens Collective's women-led mentorship, Tombe magazine's critical platform, and urgent narratives from emerging talents like Lindokuhle Sobekwa. 
- [Reza Deghati: "Photography Is the Biggest Revolution Ever – A Universal Language of Truth and Hope"](https://emahomagazine.com/reza-deghati-photography-is-the-biggest-revolution-ever-a-universal-language-of-truth-and-hope/): Iranian-French photojournalist Reza Deghati shares his journey from a Tabriz childhood witnessing injustice to 46 years documenting revolutions, wars, and resilience across 115 countries. From Iranian prisons to founding Aina and Reza Visual Academy, he champions photography as humanity's universal language for truth, healing, and empowerment.
- [Helmut Smits: "The sculpture already exists within the marble; Michelangelo's task was merely to chisel away the excess. I think the same is true for almost everything in life."](https://emahomagazine.com/helmut-smits-the-sculpture-already-exists-within-the-marble-michelangelos-task-was-merely-to-chisel-away-the-excess-i-think-the-same-is-true-for-almost-everything-in-life/): From a childhood of crafting without museums to distilling Coca-Cola into pure water in "The Real Thing," Rotterdam artist Helmut Smits chisels poetry from the everyday. This Emaho interview unveils his minimalist conceptual process—unearthing ideas in consumer waste and grass stamps—blending wit, freedom, and accessible critique.
- [Pooya Aryanpour: "The Beauty of Creation Lies at the Intersection: Where Tradition Meets Global Discourse"](https://emahomagazine.com/pooya-aryanpour-the-beauty-of-creation-lies-at-the-intersection-where-tradition-meets-global-discourse/): Tehran-based artist Pooya Aryanpour, born into a legacy of Iranian intellectuals, discusses his homeschooled roots, passion for painting, and projects like "Gone with the Wind." He explores Iran's vibrant art scene, balancing Persian heritage with global discourse through audacious innovation and cultural deconstruction.
- [Maram Ali: "Every Story Deserves to Be Painted”](https://emahomagazine.com/maram-ali-every-story-deserves-to-be-painted/): Jordanian artist Maram Ali discusses her evolution from Impressionist landscapes to powerful portraits of Gaza's martyrs. Born in Irbid, she paints with responsibility and beauty to honor silenced stories, witnessing injustice through emotionally charged, ethical works that demand global attention.  
- [Studio Agglomerati Founder Sam Henley: “Stone Doesn’t Tolerate Superficial Gestures - It Demands Clarity”](https://emahomagazine.com/studio-agglomerati-founder-sam-henley-stone-doesnt-tolerate-superficial-gestures-it-demands-clarity/): This interview with Agglomerati founder Sam Henley explores how an Australian interior designer became a London-based stone specialist, why “stone doesn’t tolerate superficial gestures,” and how his studio and BOI platform pursue rigorous, timeless furniture and context-driven exhibition making across Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.
- [Tanya Traboulsi: "Photography as a Language of Memory, Distance and Beirut”](https://emahomagazine.com/tanya-traboulsi-photography-as-a-language-of-memory-distance-and-beirut/): Austrian-Lebanese photographer Tanya Traboulsi speaks about growing up between two cultures, Beirut as muse and mirror, and photography as her language for memory, distance and belonging, reflecting through her series Beirut, Recurring Dream and photobook A Sea Apart.
- [Hossein Rezvani: "The discipline and minimalism of Europe combined with the richness and emotion of Persian culture create a very natural balance in my designs"](https://emahomagazine.com/hossein-rezvani-the-discipline-and-minimalism-of-europe-combined-with-the-richness-and-emotion-of-persian-culture-create-a-very-natural-balance-in-my-designs/): Hossein Rezvani fuses German minimalism with Persian opulence, revitalizing ancient carpet traditions. From economics to award-winning designs like Tabriz Lilac, he collaborates with Isfahan weavers, creating timeless heirlooms that blend heritage craftsmanship with contemporary luxury.
- [Niki Fallahfar: "Limitations pushed me to find more subtle, indirect ways of embedding desire, intimacy, and bodily sensation into the work"](https://emahomagazine.com/niki-fallahfar-limitations-pushed-me-to-find-more-subtle-indirect-ways-of-embedding-desire-intimacy-and-bodily-sensation-into-the-work/): Iranian artist Niki Fallahfar explains how constraints sharpened her subtle embedding of desire, intimacy and bodily sensation in works like “Noah’s Ark.” Pushing beyond direct representation, she crafts playful, unsettling narratives that reveal the unspoken through humble materials and indirect gestures.
- [David van der Leeuw: "I like images that feel unstable, that hold tension, where what is visible is only part of the story"](https://emahomagazine.com/david-van-der-leeuw-i-like-images-that-feel-unstable-that-hold-tension-where-what-is-visible-is-only-part-of-the-story/): Dutch photographer David van der Leeuw reflects on his love for unstable, tension-filled images where much is left unsaid. His work lingers in ambiguity, inviting viewers to imagine what lies beyond the frame and question the stories they project onto each scene.
- [Kym Ellery: "I wanted to build a world, not just a wardrobe - one that brought fashion, design, art, and architecture into dialogue"](https://emahomagazine.com/kym-ellery-i-wanted-to-build-a-world-not-just-a-wardrobe-one-that-brought-fashion-design-art-and-architecture-into-dialogue/): Kym Ellery reimagines fashion as a multidisciplinary world where wardrobe, design, art, and architecture intersect. Her work dissolves traditional boundaries, creating immersive narratives that reflect her commitment to innovation, craftsmanship, and expanding the cultural language of contemporary style.
- [Ece Haskan: "I often use self-portraits in many of my works, I also portray the women around me as like my sister & their stories because I frequently work with themes such as sisterhood and friendship"](https://emahomagazine.com/ece-haskan-i-often-use-self-portraits-in-many-of-my-works-i-also-portray-the-women-around-me-as-like-my-sister-their-stories-because-i-frequently-work-with-themes-such-as-sisterhood-and-frie/): Turkish illustrator Ece Haskan discusses how self-portraits and depictions of the women around her shape a visual world of sisterhood, friendship and vulnerability, blending dark humour and tenderness to explore identity, emotion and everyday survival from a distinctly female perspective.
- [Reem R: "Something shifted in my artistic journey when I saw a drawing that had crying trees made by a Palestinian child, I felt a deep connection to it"](https://emahomagazine.com/reem-r-something-shifted-in-my-artistic-journey-when-i-saw-a-drawing-that-had-crying-trees-made-by-a-palestinian-child-i-felt-a-deep-connection-to-it/): Palestinian painter Reem R reflects on a turning point in her practice after seeing a child’s drawing of “crying trees,” inspiring works that weave memory, loss and resistance into meticulously detailed still lifes charged with political and personal emotion.​  
- [Rooshad Shroff: "The preservation of Indian craftsmanship and its integration into today’s design language are at the very core of my work philosophy"](https://emahomagazine.com/rooshad-shroff-the-preservation-of-indian-craftsmanship-and-its-integration-into-todays-design-language-are-at-the-very-core-of-my-work-philosophy/): Rooted in a deep respect for Indian craftsmanship, Rooshad Shroff’s design work bridges heritage and modernity. At the heart of his philosophy lies a commitment to preserving traditional artistry while weaving it seamlessly into today’s design language and contemporary lifestyles.
- [Mohamed Hassan: “Turning Our Hidden Room into a photobook allowed me to build a physical space where memory, trauma, masculinity and love could exist together”](https://emahomagazine.com/mohamed-hassan-turning-our-hidden-room-into-a-photobook-allowed-me-to-build-a-physical-space-where-memory-trauma-masculinity-and-love-could-exist-together/): Egyptian-born Mohamed Hassan explores memory, trauma, and father-son bonds in Our Hidden Room. Reconstructing his late father's photographic archive amid mental illness and displacement, this award-winning photobook creates a poignant space where personal history confronts loss and resilience.
- [Luning Wang: "What makes Shanghai’s art scene distinct within the global landscape is the way it fuses art with lifestyle, culinary culture, fashion and design"](https://emahomagazine.com/luning-wang-what-makes-shanghais-art-scene-distinct-within-the-global-landscape-is-the-way-it-fuses-art-with-lifestyle-culinary-culture-fashion-and-design/): Luning Wang's curatorial vision fuses Shanghai's dynamic art scene with lifestyle, fashion, and culinary culture, creating immersive cultural hubs. As founder of Rong Lu, she bridges East-West dialogues, educating Mandarin audiences while advising luxury brands on authentic, cross-cultural storytelling and collector engagement.
- [Fara Askari: "My goal is to continue creating spaces where history, design, and emotion come together, while preserving the cultural soul of Shiraz for future generations"](https://emahomagazine.com/fara-askari-my-goal-is-to-continue-creating-spaces-where-history-design-and-emotion-come-together-while-preserving-the-cultural-soul-of-shiraz-for-future-generations/): Shiraz-restorer designer Fara Askari crafts spaces where ancient Persian history meets contemporary design and raw emotion. Committed to preserving Shiraz's cultural essence, she creates immersive environments that honor heritage while inviting future generations to experience the city's timeless soul.
- [Juan Cristóbal Cobo: "I’m interested in discovering new ways of translating the everyday, in finding poetry in seemingly insignificant moments, and in allowing photography to surprise me again"](https://emahomagazine.com/juan-cristobal-cobo-im-interested-in-discovering-new-ways-of-translating-the-everyday-in-finding-poetry-in-seemingly-insignificant-moments-and-in-allowing-photography-to-surprise-me-agai/): Colombian photographer Juan Cristóbal Cobo speaks about finding poetry in everyday life, transforming seemingly insignificant moments into powerful visual stories. Drawing on decades in film, he lets photography surprise him again and again, using the camera to rediscover the world with curiosity and emotional depth.
- [Ahoo Hamedi: "The energy, challenges, and culture of Tehran naturally find their way into my work, giving it a sense of place"](https://emahomagazine.com/ahoo-hamedi-the-energy-challenges-and-culture-of-tehran-naturally-find-their-way-into-my-work-giving-it-a-sense-of-place/): Iranian artist Ahoo Hamedi reflects on how Tehran’s charged atmosphere, daily struggles, and rich culture seep into her multidisciplinary practice, giving each work a vivid sense of place. Her intimate, intuitive pieces transform personal observation into layered visual narratives rooted in the city’s complex realities.
- [Paul Cocksedge: "I am interested in how an object relates to people, how it can bring joy, spark curiosity and conversation"](https://emahomagazine.com/paul-cocksedge-i-am-interested-in-how-an-object-relates-to-people-how-it-can-bring-joy-spark-curiosity-and-conversation/): British designer Paul Cocksedge reflects on how objects can spark emotions, curiosity and connection. Rooted in public art, furniture and large-scale installations, his practice explores the relationship between people and form, reimagining everyday materials to create playful, social, and conversation-starting design experiences.
- [Nastaran Safaei: "A small stone on the roadside might capture my attention more deeply than major political news that shakes the world"](https://emahomagazine.com/nastaran-safaei-a-small-stone-on-the-roadside-might-capture-my-attention-more-deeply-than-major-political-news-that-shakes-the-world/): Iranian artist Nastaran Safaei finds deep meaning in everyday objects, revealing how a simple roadside stone can fascinate her more than world-shaking headlines. Her work captures fleeting, overlooked moments, crafting poetic reflections on the beauty, fragility, and subtle complexity within ordinary life.​
- [Erik Kessels: "Photography is definitely not dead. Quite the opposite: the overwhelming abundance of images forces artists to think differently"](https://emahomagazine.com/erik-kessels-photography-is-definitely-not-dead-quite-the-opposite-the-overwhelming-abundance-of-images-forces-artists-to-think-differently/): Erik Kessels, renowned Dutch artist and curator, discusses the dynamic evolution of photography in the digital age. He asserts that the explosion of images demands fresh artistic approaches, positioning today’s image-makers to rethink creativity and storytelling like never before.
- [Hamed Khosravi: "One of the main purposes of the book was to communicate the history of Modern Movement and in particular Guevrekian’s legacy to a wider public"](https://emahomagazine.com/hamed-khosravi-one-of-the-main-purposes-of-the-book-was-to-communicate-the-history-of-modern-movement-and-in-particular-guevrekians-legacy-to-a-wider-public/): Hamed Khosravi’s work brings to light the often-forgotten legacy of Gabriel Guevrekian — a cosmopolitan architect and modernist pioneer whose wide-ranging influence spanned Tehran, Vienna, Paris and beyond. Through his book and interviews, Khosravi connects the ambitious global sweep of the Modern Movement to a broader public. 
- [Tabarak Mansour: "My Iraqi sensibility lives in the forms I create, and viewers often sense it"](https://emahomagazine.com/tabarak-mansour-my-iraqi-sensibility-lives-in-the-forms-i-create-and-viewers-often-sense-it/): Tabarak Mansour’s Emaho Magazine interview explores how her Iraqi sensibility shapes the forms she creates, revealing deep connections to heritage, memory, and community. Her art evokes personal nostalgia while resonating with viewers through universal, culturally rooted emotions and contemporary expressions.
- [Ramtin Zad: "My process is spontaneous and unpremeditated - I work through discovery in the moment, without prior planning or intellectual filtering"](https://emahomagazine.com/ramtin-zad-my-process-is-spontaneous-and-unpremeditated-i-work-through-discovery-in-the-moment-without-prior-planning-or-intellectual-filtering/): Dominated by its fleshy, richly hued and debaucherous qualities, the work of Ramtin Ramtin Zad brings two-dimensional realities into three-dimensional planes with masochistically claustrophobic compositions that reveal new details each time they are glanced at.
- [Noushin Sadeghian: "I would describe my artistic voice as a combination of intricate details and delicate emotions"](https://emahomagazine.com/noushin-sadeghian-i-would-describe-my-artistic-voice-as-a-combination-of-intricate-details-and-delicate-emotions/): Noushin Sadeghian is a Iranian visual artist and illustrator who won the Grand Prix at the 30th Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) in Slovakia. Sadeghian won the top award for her illustrations in the book “Daal’s Daughter”, written by Ahmad Akbarpour, IRNA reported.
- [Edward Middleditch: The Pencil of Nature](https://emahomagazine.com/edward-middleditch-the-pencil-of-nature/): United Kingdom –  James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings by Edward Middleditch. Focused on the artist’s meticulous later works, the exhibition: “The Pencil of Nature“, explores his painstaking and obsessive observation of nature. At the heart of the exhibition are meticulous drawings of fields of crops in which each leaf and stem is precisely detailed and delineated. Edward Middleditch established himself in the mid 1950s as one of the most powerful young painters and draughtsmen in Britain. Initially associated with the kitchen sink painters – John Bratby, Derrick Greaves and Jack Smith – he devoted himself […]
- [Asger Carlsen: From Crime-Photography to Mutilated, Disfigured Human Form](https://emahomagazine.com/asger-carlsen-from-crime-photography-to-mutilated-disfigured-human-form/): USA – Asger Carlsen’s images consist of mutilated, disfigured and distorted human forms with a typical obscure quality to them. He has collaborated with photographers like Roger Ballen and media entities like Esquire and New York Times. Carlsen has also authored and co-authored books based on his work. Presently he lives and works from his studio in Chinatown in the New York City.   What is the inspiration behind your human-sculptural photography? In one of your interviews you’ve mentioned that “style” is very important and also that you were inspired by Andreas Gursky, a German landscape photographer, at the beginning of your […]
- [Noriko Hayashi: "I saw many bride kidnappings in Kyrgyzstan"](https://emahomagazine.com/noriko-hayashi-i-saw-many-bride-kidnappings-in-kyrgyzstan/): Kyrgyzstan – Represented by Panos Pictures, Japanese photojournalist Noriko Hayashi has worked in diverse regions around the world, including Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan and Gambia. Her work, though journalistic in style, is more personal, going into the lives of her subjects in a very sensitive, poignant way. She has worked on issues ranging from the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to the practice of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. Her work often deals with the human side of tragedy, and the resilience of people to live with hope.   Emaho: You stumbled upon photography almost by chance while you were still a […]
- [Anna Fox: 'Resort 2' - British Adult Parties and a Photographic Carnival](https://emahomagazine.com/anna-fox-resort-2-british-adult-parties-and-a-photographic-carnival/): United Kingdom –  For two years British photographer Photography Feature –  Anna Fox documented holiday culture at the iconic Butlin’s resort in the seaside town of Bognor Regis, West Sussex. This new book ‘Resort 2’, published by Schilt Publishing, is the second part of the Resort project. Resort 1, published in October 2013, looked at “Family Breaks” at this iconic holiday camp, providing a unique insight into contemporary British leisure culture. Resort 2 observes a very different kind of holiday, the themed adult breaks, taking place about once every six weeks inside this very British holiday camp. Butlin’s famed for its […]
- [Atsushi Fujiwara: 'Poet Island' - Soul-Stirring Photos of Sanatoriums in Japan's Nagashima Island](https://emahomagazine.com/atsushi-fujiwara-poet-island-soul-stirring-photos-of-sanatoriums-in-japans-nagashima-island/): Japan – I was an eight year-old child when I first visited this island. My parents brought me along to visit to my uncle, who served as general manager of the island sanatorium where Hansen’s disease patients were isolated. Though deeply impressed by the untouched natural beauty of the island, I also recall the anguish I felt in my young heart at the sad fate of its inhabitants (patients). Returning to the island thirty-five years later, this time as a photographer, I came across a poem: －Like luminescent fish dwelling in the darkness of the deep sea, there is no light until I alight from […]
- [Tim Richmond: 'Last Best Hiding Place' - Exploring the Longstanding Myth of the American West](https://emahomagazine.com/tim-richmond-last-best-hiding-place-exploring-the-longstanding-myth-of-the-american-west/): USA –  Deserted streets with beer cans blowing down the road…a cowboy washing his shirts…a train on its way into a million acres of emptiness…a Vietnam vet who lost twenty years of recent memory…a whole town for sale…meth warnings…a tattooed waitress in neon light. All of these inhabit the Last Best Hiding Place. Places, like people can seem alone, filled with melancholy. Last Best Hiding Place (2007-2014) is Richmond’s personal and contemporary odyssey through a landscape of filmic references in the American West, revealing stories revealed true or imagined. The evidence of the American dream is there, but dust covered, closed […]
- [Christer Stromholm: 'Les Nuits de Place Blanche' - Celebrating Life of Transsexuals in Paris in 50's & 60's](https://emahomagazine.com/christer-stromholm-les-nuits-de-place-blanche-celebrating-life-of-transsexuals-in-paris-in-50s-60s/): France –  Christer Strömholm (Stockholm, Sweden, 1918–2001) is one of the most important European photographers of the twentieth century. He spent most of his life in Sweden, but he made France, and especially Paris, his second home. His series about the transsexuals of the Place Blanche was produced between 1958 and 1968. In the first edition of the book Les amies de Place Blanche (Vännerna från Place Blanche), published by ETC/ Johan Ehrenberg in Stockholm in 1983, Strömholm says: “These are images from another time. A time when de Gaulle was president and France was at war against Algeria. These are […]
- [Hans Gremmen: ‘Peeling off the layers’- Understanding the link between Photobooks and Design](https://emahomagazine.com/hans-gremmen-peeling-off-the-layers-understanding-the-link-between-photobooks-and-design/): Netherlands –  Hans Gremmen is a talented designer based in Amsterdam known for his innovative work with photo books. Regularly sought out by photographers, Gremmen is known to be quite an authority on photobooks, having worked on several photobooks, including ‘Cette Montagne C’est Moi’, ’Sequester’, and ‘Libero’. Emaho caught up with Hans in November, 2014 to have a conversation about his passion for the medium and everything regarding the photobook tradition and the contemporary photobook scene. Manik: What inspired you to become a designer of photobooks? Hans: It was not an obvious choice. It happened by chance. After graduating, I worked for architects and […]
- [Vlad Krasnoshchok & Sergiy Lebedynskyy: "Euromaidan" - Rapidly Changing Ukrainian Chronicles](https://emahomagazine.com/vlad-krasnoshchok-sergiy-lebedynskyy-euromaidan-rapidly-changing-ukrainian-chronicles/): Ukraine –  “On the 19th of January, 2014 a peaceful protest of Ukrainian Euromaidans on the Hrushevskyi Street in Kiev turned into the possible beginning of a civil war. It went too far, with explosions of gas grenades, Molotov cocktails, shootings of activists by the special police unit “Berkut”, abductions of people to the forest, acts of torture and all the other methods employed by dictatorial regimes. I couldn’t remain indifferent to what was happening in the country. I called a fellow photographer and friend, Sergiy Lebedynskyy, and the decision was made to go to Kiev immediately. We bought tickets and […]
- [Erik Kessels: "From the moment I saw Moises by Mariela Sancari, I fell in love."](https://emahomagazine.com/erik-kessels-from-the-moment-i-saw-moises-by-mariela-sancari-i-fell-in-love/): Mexico –  Many artists return to themes like love, birth, and death in their works. The best give these universals a unique and personal quality. In my experience, one of the strongest examples is Seichi Furuya, a Japanese photographer who followed his schizophrenic wife throughout her illness, all the way to her sad and premature end. Furuya’s project is perhaps the most intimate of works as the photographer provides both an objective lens and the extreme subjectivity of a husband’s eye. For me, the best photographers are those who dare to document such grief. Think also of the series by Nobuyoshi […]
- [The Surreally Whimsical World of Shae DeTar](https://emahomagazine.com/the-surreally-whimsical-world-of-shae-detar/): USA –  Colourful, quirky, antiquated and yet modern is what comes to mind when you see model-turned-artist Shae Acopian Detar’s work. The artist who divides time between New York City and Los Angeles, creates images using age-old technique of hand painting her photographs. Her handiwork lends the paintings a dreamy, transcendental quality. Neon pinks, yellows and greens are some of the defining colours in Detar’s images. The play with contrast creates a wonderland in which female models look like otherworldly goddesses. The choice of theatrical wardrobes, or lack thereof, reflect Detar’s acquired taste as a model. She transforms clear blue skies, […]
- [Jan Brykczynski: "Boiko" - Exploring the Rural Reality of Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains](https://emahomagazine.com/jan-brykczynski-boiko/): Poland – Those Boikos are the most mysterious tribe the length and breadth of the Carpathians. No-one else is quite so troublesome. The Boikos are a little mute. They are incapable of talking about themselves. They are so vivid, when you are among them, yet become slippery, like their waters, when you try to somehow define them. They have so many objects and gestures that have disappeared everywhere else, and they have so little of everything that is already everywhere. Taras Prokhas’ko, transl. Uilleam Blacker A Boiko village in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains fit my idea of the rural life in […]

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