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GUP Magazine, an international authoritative publication on photography, connects its communities with the sharpest conceptual photography, the latest photo books, and compelling writings about the contemporary world of photography. As an overall platform for photography we publish four premium print issues a year, deliver daily online content, and produce self-initiated book publications.

02/01/2025

MELANIE BOSBOOM

1971, The Netherlands

Melanie's work explores the interplay between self, environment, and the transformative potential of vulnerability. In her studio, she employs photography as a medium to create intimate sketches using her own body and attributes. Photography becomes a tool for rapid translation, capturing fleeting moments that allow her to break free from prejudices and embrace the full spectrum of human experience.

For Melanie, creating images is an act of silent expression—a way to exist in the world without overtly occupying space. Her work is deeply intertwined with her own existence and her relationship to others and the environment, forming an ongoing investigation into ways of "being" and how the self interacts with its surroundings.

29/12/2024

FRANCESCA DINI

1980, Italy

Francesca's work delves into the theme of freedom—the freedom to be oneself and the freedom of choice. Although seemingly simple, this concept carries profound significance in her life. For years, Francesca felt constrained by societal expectations of what she should be, struggling to meet the idealized standards of womanhood imposed upon her. Through photography, particularly self-portraiture, she found a way to break free from these expectations, embracing her true nature and reclaiming her identity.

In her series, Francesca explores the interplay between self and nature, blending self-portraits with natural elements like earth, stones, and trees. Nature, with its renewing power, becomes a source of inner balance and healing. For Francesca, self-portraiture is an act of solitude and reflection—a space to confront fears and limitations while striving to transcend them.

23/12/2024

MASHA FURSOVA

1990

Her work centers on a deep fascination with the beauty of women, exploring body language and the shapes of the human form. A significant part of their artistic practice involves working with nudity, celebrating the female body as an art form and a boundless source of inspiration. Through their lens, Behram seeks to liberate women from sexualized stereotypes, portraying the body not as an object of desire but as a vessel of inner power, energy, and aesthetic expression.

Their photographs emphasize purity of composition and unique storytelling, often rendered in black and white to distill the essence of their vision. This minimalist approach invites the viewer to engage with the deeper narratives and emotions embedded within the frame, free from distraction.

22/12/2024

BEHRAM DA COSTA

1977, the USA

To Behram, photography is a means of seeking truth—not merely the truth of daily facts, but something deeper, something more essential and enduring.

21/12/2024

MIRJAM HUISMAN

1974, The Netherlandshuisman

The project Mustangs draws from personal coming-of-age experiences, rooted in the photographer's upbringing in the small Dutch town of De Veluwe. Each image in the series is captured in this environment, creating a narrative that is intentionally open-ended, inviting viewers to construct their own stories.

Her work focuses on snapshots from the lives of young people and members of subcultures. These images feel like fragments of films—staged yet spontaneous, fictional portraits where the models take on roles but are given space for improvisation. This approach blurs the line between fiction and reality, capturing moments that are both intimate and raw.

Inspired by an enduring fascination with outsiders, music, and cinema, their work is shaped by a distinctive atmosphere that leads each image. The result is a style that is cinematic, fragmentary, and imbued with a fashionable sensibility.

20/12/2024

MARCO BARTOLOZZI

1978, Italy

"Lost at Sea" is a photographic investigation of the silent waiting for life to return to coastal resorts, as well as a reflection on the beauty and tranquillity of these places now stripped of their summer chaos. In his photographs, he shows the metamorphosis of noisy and populated places into spaces of solitude and serenity. The sea is the silent protagonist that links the different moments of the project, symbolizing the cyclical nature of time. Each shot represents a window of time, inviting the viewer to reflect on the metaphysical dimension of time and waiting dimension of time and waiting, in which one can get lost, but also find oneself when it all opens up again.

19/12/2024

TESS DE BOER

1991, The Netherlandsde.boer

A freelance art director specializing in creative direction within the fashion industry, she crafts impactful concepts by closely observing and reflecting on social and political paradigm shifts. Her practice is guided by the desire to echo contemporary and global voices, ensuring her work resonates with the ever-changing cultural landscape.

Since 2019, she has explored the intersection of fashion, psychology, and environmental awareness through analogue photography, engaging in a dialogue with the rapidly evolving world. Using film as a medium, she captures poetic landscapes, otherworldly compositions, and delicate gestures—both human and non-human. Her lens often conveys a sense of grief for what teeters on the edge of loss. Through her photography, she documents these fleeting phenomena as active participants within their natural habitats, emphasizing their agency, sensorial power, and semiotic significance.

Her ongoing autonomous project delves into themes of solastalgia, ecosemiotics, and the geographic entity of Iceland, creating a poignant visual narrative grounded in environmental and emotional awareness.

18/12/2024

MARYNA SYROVATKA

1977, Ukraine

A Ukraine-born photographer now based in Slovakia, she began her artistic journey later in life, transitioning from a successful career as a lawyer to pursue her passion for storytelling through images.

Her self-guided education in photography, which began in 2018, was shaped by participation in workshops and mentorship programs with renowned artists such as Nadav Kander, Andreas Bitesnich, Sergei Sarakhanov, and Jonas Bendiksen. Her fascination with analog filmmaking and darkroom techniques—skills she first learned from her parents—sparked a lifelong enchantment with the magic of film, a medium that continues to influence her work.

17/12/2024

MARINA BOCHETTI

1977, Italy

She imagines visions and strives to capture them in photographs that preserve their memory forever. For her, an image is memory—a blend of joy and pain, remembrance and new hope.

Photography is a labor, often a challenging one, of self-reflection. It is her way of telling her story, a free expression of who she is, what she feels, and how she sees the world around her.

16/12/2024

JULIA RADIONOVA

1992, Ukraine

Julia Radionova, born in 1992 in Odessa and raised in Kiev, is a photographer and artist with a background in theatrical direction. In 2014, she graduated from the National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts with a degree as a “Theatre and Show Program Director.”

Julia began photographing on film in 2018, focusing on the interactions and interests of people and their generation, often using the “naked body” of her models as a medium for expression. Her work challenges conventional beauty standards, reflecting her advocacy for rejecting imposed stereotypes and reshaping the perception of aesthetics.

In October 2019, Julia curated an apartment exhibition to showcase works censored by social media platforms, creating a space for unrestricted artistic expression.

15/12/2024

JULIA BERTERMANN

1987, Germanybert.fotografie

The pictures are part of a series that I called Eden and refer to binary gender concepts. I deal with questions of identities, gender, and power in relation to the body and how these are reflected in the photographic gaze. My approach is to formulate specific questions or problems by (actively) creating images: I make use of certain objects that trigger associations, break them up, and allow the viewer to link them anew. Basically, I only move in the world of objects, because bodies also become projection surfaces, representatives of body and gender concepts and social identities.

14/12/2024

MARCO DE WAAL
1969, The Netherlands

Photography is a way to express myself creatively. My images are often intuitive, creative, raw, graphic and aesthetic with strong contrasts. Catching a moment, a raw emotion or a certain mood is what I find attractive and interesting about photography. The transfer of these impressions is what I strive for. I am fascinated by the play of light and shadows. Although the model plays a central role, for me it is about the power and expression of the entire image. Form and composition play an important role in my work.

13/12/2024

JIP HUISINTVELD

2002, The Netherlands

I photograph people and their peculiarities on the street. By doing this, I hope that the viewer will reflect on the absurdity and the coincidences of everyday life. By photographing from afar I try not to influence my subject. This is important to me, because I like to capture natural movement and emotions. This often changes when a subject notices my camera.

How does one move in the public space? How do people act towards each other? My work is about questioning the everyday. While trusting my intuition out on the streets, I like to curate my images back home. Finding new connections and accidental overlapping. This makes me actively question my why and the choices that I make.

12/12/2024

MARINA BEZRUKOVA

1989, the USA

Subtle Narratives

This ongoing series explores the everyday world through a study of seemingly mundane scenes, extracted from their usual contexts. I “find” most of my photographs during walks, primarily in towns across New England. I am drawn to elements that make me pause, often appearing out of place. I strive to capture these moments without interference, collecting images and impressions that highlight the simplicity, randomness, and beauty of found still lives.

10/12/2024

ANA BATHE

1987, Serbiabathe

Portals

Scientific magic’s ever-present aura surrounds each and every one of us. It is the process of change that occurs in our earthly nature and beyond in the endless depths of the universe. These continuous developments represent the driving force for the artist’s desire to create. By playfully blending them with mythology, she summons glimpses into other realms of possibilities. Those arcane glances she refers to as her own Portals.

Any particular constructed portal may be found within remote parts of your mind or is reached only through an eldritch apparatus. In either case,e the otherworldly scenery is frozen in time but grants a soft focus to what may be just within reach.

While the artist’s first glimpses into other realities began in late 2018, they only intensified through the worldwide lockdown a year and a half later. The artist constructed sets, elaborate in nature. She sculpted masks, incorporated prosthetics as well as special effect pieces, and hand-painted each individual item separately. Hereby the project aims to fuse photography, performance, and other visual arts into one, ultimately resulting in an ongoing assembly of imaginary worlds. Yet the unknown remains strangely familiar. Those arcane glances she refers to as her own Portals.

All works are self-portraits, as the artist creates multidimensional characters, who may appear spooky to some and beautiful to others. Human-animal hybrids, characters merging with plants, myths, icons and many in between, this project flirts with the unknown, with fantasy, with dreamscapes

08/12/2024

MELISSA HERDER

1999, The Netherlands

Melissa Herder has a lifelong passion for creativity. Her journey into photography began with capturing simple, joyful moments on her phone, drawn to the beauty of life’s quiet details. Over time, Melissa developed her own unique style, fueled by a deep fascination with foggy landscapes.

For Melissa, walking through the fog feels like entering a private, otherworldly space—especially at night. The mysterious, almost ominous atmosphere of being surrounded by ‘nothingness’ brings her an unexpected sense of calm and comfort. Her photography reflects this connection, turning fleeting moments of stillness into evocative, dreamlike imagery.

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