Black and White Landscape Photography by Marcin Bera

Marcin Bera was born on the 13th of May, 1978 in Poznan, Poland where he grew up and studied. He received a MSc from the Poznan University in 2003. In 2005 he moved with his family to Bournemouth in the United Kingdom where he lives and works until now.



His love for photography started few years ago when he got fascinated by the South Coast of England, and he wanted to transfer his vision to the field of maritime landscapes.

His style is unmistakable. He relies on multiple techniques of contemporary art photography and especially very long exposure. He has created his own world of a unique mood, nostalgia, loneliness, and tranquility at the same time. His world allows you to escape from everyday life and everything that is so very human.

Atomic Bomb detonation by Harold Edgerton

Developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton in the 1940s, the Rapatronic photographic technique allowed very early times in a nuclear explosion's fireball growth to be recorded on film. The exposures were often as short as 10 nanoseconds, and each Rapatronic camera would take exactly one photograph.



Harold Edgerton's story is one of humble Nebraskan beginnings that sparked a child's curiosity for taking things apart to see how they worked. So bloomed the genius that led him to become an MIT Professor who founded his Strobe Alley workshop which perfected stroboscopic photography. His amazing works include a lightbulb stopped in the process of shattering, the drop of milk frozen in midair splash, a bullet shown shooting it's way through a playing card, shredding it in half as it goes. One of the things Edgerton was asked to photograph was the night time detonation of an atomic bomb by the military. He managed to capture the process beautifully but also the strange beauty of destruction at the same time.

Creative Black and White Photography by Rodney Smith

Many of you know the name of Rodney Smith. Not surprisingly, such kind of photographers must be famous. His pictures are always easily identified thanks to a special style of Rodney. His photo is like special moment of someone’s life. Looking at them, it seems that a man could do the impossible things, he able to stop time. Besides, his stories lure the viewer as something magical, fantastic. It’s similar to very realistic dream.



Celebrated photographer Rodney Smith graduated from the University of Virginia in 1970 and earned a Master of Divinity in Theology from Yale University in 1973. While at Yale, he also studied photography under Walker Evans.

In 1975, Smith received a Jerusalem Foundation Fellowship which enabled him to travel to Jerusalem for three months. The photos taken there resulted in his first book “In the Land of Light” which was published in 1983.

Black and White Photography by Vanessa Winship

Vanessa Winship was born and currently resides in the United Kingdom. For almost a decade, she lived and worked in the Balkans and Turkey. She received two First Prize World Press Photo Awards in 1998 and 2008, respectively. Since 2005 she has been represented by Agence VU in Paris.



After studying cinema and photography at Westminster University (Polytechnic of Central London), Vanessa shares her time between photography and teaching. She then fully devotes herself to photography and lives for about 10 years in the Balkans and Turkey.

Her work has been exhibited on three separate occasions at the National Portrait Gallery in London, as well as the Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam.