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Photo Essays

A Mundane World: The Other Face of Palm Springs

Lauren Ray currently attends Emily Carr University where she is majoring in photography. Using whichever 35mm point and shoot or film SLR she can get her hands on, she uses flash and colour to create sensations of the mundane. She approaches the visual world with a candid...

Kenya’s Best Kept Secret: Lamu Archipelago

Many equate Kenya with the picturesque Masai Mara and its wild animals, but the tropical coast is lesser-known. I’ve travelled the country extensively and, to me, the exotic Lamu archipelago – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – typifies the ultimate “east” of East Africa.   A few...

Light Studies with Francesco Sambati, Photographer of the Week

Born in Italy, Francesco Sambati is a self-taught photographer currently living in Lecce, a city located in Puglia, a region in the deep south of Italy famous for its Baroque architecture and for the remains of its ancient civilization "messapica". About his career as a photographer, Francesco says: Before...

Photographer of the Week: Junichi Ota, Japan

Junichi Õta is an amateur photographer based in Japan. He's submission to the EyeEm x Hayo contest was successful and his photograph is now part of the "My South" photo essay of Hayo No. 1: South. Junichi's photographs are almost a capture of his memory, an instant...

The Beautiful Contrasting Culture of Medellin

Medellin is becoming one of the top cities to visit in South America. May it be because of its renaissance and implementation of many different cultural and social policies that have helped it take a leap into one of the region's most forward thinking cities....

Photographer of the Week: Dina Alfasi, Israel

This week we'd like to present you Dina Alfasi, an Israeli photographer, mother of an 11 year old boy - Guy - that usually appears in many of her photos. She's one of the winner of the photo contest we launched earlier this year with EyeEm and...