Kategorie: Conceptual

Vote for the Cover of STRKNG Editors' Selection – #85

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Vote for the Cover of STRKNG Editors' Selection - #85 - Blog post by Institution STRKNG / 7 Jan 2026, 17:28

1) © Photographer Michael Hemingway Participants: Aurora

2) © Photographer Marc Gaillot

3) »Allium*« © Photographer Claudy B.

4) »Dimanche à Paris« © Model Minh-Ly

5) »portrait of a lady« © Photographer Laura Daddabbo

6) »Satsuki« © Photographer Imar

7) »Maya 2« © Photographer Latelier

8) »By Bayek photography« © Model noa_the_model

9) »Floating by Carlos Rodrigues« © Model Rahel van der Meer

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Voting ends Tuesday 13th January 23:59h MET

Publication covers so far….

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Teilnehmer: Model Aurora / Photographer bayek photography / Photographer Claudy B. / Photographer Imar / Photographer Latelier / Photographer Laura Daddabbo / Photographer Marc Gaillot / Photographer Michael Hemingway / Model Minh-Ly / Model noa_the_model / Model Rahel van der Meer

Backroom I

Photographer Sub|Liminal Photography

Backroom I - Blog post by Photographer Sub|Liminal Photography / 1 Nov 2025, 07:49

"In the amber glow of a forgotten hour, she holds her secrets close."

We dove into the dim light of a hidden backroom, a place that whispered secrets from the Prohibition era. We used the minimal light available that was spilling through a dusty small window and from old lamps, sometimes catching her features sharply, sometimes softly. The "Flapper Girl" concept came alive; you could feel the yearning for freedom and the sweet decadence of the "Roaring Twenties." Every click of the camera was like a toast with forbidden whiskey, capturing that rebellious, fleeting elegance.

Teilnehmer: Model Frau Katzenblum

Ephemeral Skin: A Portrait Study

Photographer Sub|Liminal Photography

Ephemeral Skin: A Portrait Study - Blog post by Photographer Sub|Liminal Photography / 5 Oct 2025, 15:09

Another creative collaboration with Frau Katzenblum:

​Our goal was to deliberately create a morbid and oppressive atmosphere, for which the plastic foil served as a symbol of suffocation and isolation. Frau Katzenblum fully immersed herself in this dark role, portraying the quiet struggle against the suffocating shroud with impressive intensity. The foil, emphasized by the harsh, cold light and deep shadows, sometimes lay like a shroud, sometimes like a second, lifeless skin over her face. The series is intended to both disturb and fascinate the viewer, celebrating the aesthetics of unease and transience.

Teilnehmer: Model Frau Katzenblum

Vote for the Cover of STRKNG Editors' Selection – #82

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Vote for the Cover of STRKNG Editors' Selection - #82 - Blog post by Institution STRKNG / 6 Jun 2025, 10:50

1) »Maryam« © Photographer Behnam Khorramshahi

2) »Dorsal« © Model Miss Souls with marc von martial

3) © Photographer Michael Hemingway

4) »cat part1 I/V | rue | tanzsaal | 2o24« © Photographer Willi Schwanke

5) »Emma« © Photographer Kai Mueller with Riel Life

6) © Photographer Ash Day Participants: Irina ludosanu

7) »Gemma« © Photographer Jürgen Neitsch

8) »Julia« © Photographer s_pro

9) »Posture« © Photographer Yeh Shu Yu

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Teilnehmer: Photographer Ash Day / Photographer Behnam Khorramshahi / Model Irina ludosanu / Photographer Jürgen Neitsch / Photographer Kai Mueller / Photographer marc von martial / Photographer Michael Hemingway / Model Miss Souls / Photographer Riel Life / Photographer s_pro / Photographer Willi Schwanke / Photographer Yeh Shu Yu

Ballet Dreams

Photographer Matthias Petz (mp_kunst)

Ballet Dreams - Blog post by Photographer Matthias Petz (mp_kunst) / 16 May 2025, 16:27

Eine kleine Auswahl meines kürzlich stattgefundenem Ballett Shooting in München.

München hat sich verändert. Was ich damit meine, ist nicht die Kulisse, sondern die Tatsache, dass man mittlerweile dauernd offensichtlich bestohlen wird. Zweimal ist es mir an diesem Tag passiert, und jedes Mal hab ich es zum Glück noch rechtzeitig gemerkt.

Das hat mir aber den Spaß am Shooting nicht verdorben. Aber wie es so ist, sehe ich die Stadt als Fotograf nun etwas anders. Was ich schade finde, da mir München immer die liebste Stadt zum Fotografieren war.

In Zukunft heißt es also noch mehr auf Sicherheit achten, damit der Spaß an den Shootings nicht verdorben wird.

Carrying

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Photographer André Leischner

Carrying - Blog post by Photographer André Leischner / 14 May 2025, 16:15

The "Carrying" series I created from August 2024 to April 2025, spanning the entire period of pregnancy, and brings together photographic positions on pregnant physicality – raw, calm, and radically visible. In each shot, pregnancy reveals itself not as an idealized cliché, but as a real, physically experienced, intimate, and socially shaped transformation.

The body in these images carries – visibly and invisibly – weight, expectation, responsibility, history, and the future. It carries not only new life, but also signs of power, vulnerability, control, and self-empowerment. The conscious decision for analog black-and-white photography creates a timeless space in which the supposedly private becomes public. The poses range from upright confrontation to quiet inwardness – always with a focus on dignity and self-determination.

The series does not invite us to contemplate "motherhood," but rather to engage with the pregnant body as a political, aesthetic, and emotional site.