Pictures of the World

How do you capture a moment of cultural appreciation or how much a place and its culture has influenced your work? Many artists, whether from the East themselves or travelers through it, have marveled at what they have seen through their lens. Fortunately for us, such photographers have aimed to create fragments of the East through their depictions of everything from vast mountain landscapes to everyday life. In 2014 a photographic exhibition entitled Gardens of the East: Photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s at the National Gallery of Australia, was the first major survey in the southern hemisphere of photographic art. These pieces of history followed on just decades after the earliest versions of the camera had been developed in the 1850s to just before the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia in 1945. It offered a unique insight into the everyday life, culture and people of a country in south-east Asia, revealing a peek at those still honoring tradition or contributing to developments in contemporary industry. In Artsper's own selection of works, you will come across artists such as Sean MacLeod and Monica Denevan, whose photographs blur the distinction between cultural documentation and artistic portraiture. She strives to document her travels, with their fragments of the East echoing deep personal connections made with those from another culture and their relationship with the nature and landscape they inhabit…

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Watermelons in Truck, Miami Beach, Florida USA

Restaurant Facade, Florida USA

Woman in Phone Booth, Wisconsin USA

Highway 9, Iowa

Love is my religion, Czech Republic

Peacock

Lion, Tanzania, Africa

Lions, Tanzania, Africa

Giraffes, Tanzania, Africa

Children Shuttle

Landscape

Child with sloth, The Amazon Forest, Brazil

Tulum nights #3

Tulum nights #1

Self portrait

Shall we dance ?

Still Life (Skull and Falcon)

Distant Eyes

Martini Bianco

Lamayuru Monastery

Tulum nights #2

Still Life (Vases)

Explosion Baroque

Still Life (Flowers)

Rêve imaginaire

Tulum nights #4

Metalmorphose VIII

Metalmorphose Yellow

La diva

Rear Window

Palm Light Tree

Oh Lord won't you buy me...

Monument

Riu Ferrer

Distant Skies #29

Metalmorphose IX

Metalmorphose Red

Blue Car II

Distant Skies #80

Still Life (Animals and Objects)

Still Life (Animals and Objects)

Still Life (Decanter)

Still life (lamp)

Woman in Chiapas, Mexico

Le Bal

Distant Skies #17

Distant Skies #58

Distant Skies #81

Distant Skies #74a

Distant Skies #50

Distant Skies #49

Distant Skies #45

Distant Skies #41

Distant Skies #5

Distant Skies #1

Still life (rabbit)

Still life (bird and objects)

Still Life (Yarn)

Still Life (Animals and Objects)

Still Life (Cone)

Woman by Window

I Don't Have a Wooden Heart...

Distant Skies #51

Sitting Woman

Peru

Bank Job