by Doreen Pfeiffer | 1 Mar, 2023 | Artists
Whilst employed as a button and belt salesman in Berlin, Alfred Eisenstaedt taught himself photography and worked as a freelance photojournalist. Waiters at the Window — 1901 In 1929 he received his first assignment that would launch his professional career – the...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 26 Sep, 2022 | Artists
Robert Doisneau was born on the 14th April 1912 and lived until the 1st April 1994. He was a French photographer and early pioneer of photojournalism. In the 1930’s he photographed the streets of Paris and was noted for his poetic approach to street photography. As a...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 12 Sep, 2022 | Artists, New Work
I have been creating graffiti collages for quite a few years and I like to believe that it has evolved into beautiful artworks. It started with a visit to China in September 2013, where there is an art district in Beijing called 798. It is a complex of 50-year-old...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 15 Aug, 2022 | Artists, New Work
This moving and emotive shot was taken by our resident photographer, Rebecca Hearfield. It was during a visit to the Rhiza Babuyile where the mother was waiting for her baby to be seen at the mobile clinic. What attracted Rebecca to take this photograph was the shape...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 25 Apr, 2022 | Artists
Slim Aarons was an American photographer who was well known for his images of socialites, jet-setters, aristocracy and celebrities. Throughout his career he worked with magazines like Life, Holiday and Town & Country. He had a very simple approach – used no...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 6 Jul, 2021 | Artists
I was fortunate enough to visit Paris in early 2005 when Louis Vuitton was doing renovations to their flagship store on the Champs-Élysées and managed to take the following two photographs. In 2004, Louis Vuitton spent $1,5 million to erect the large scale Louis...