Abdelrahman Alkahlout

Abdelrahman Alkahlout

Q: Congratulations on being named Photographer of the Year at the 2025 IPA Awards Ceremony earlier this year in Athens. What was your immediate feeling when you heard your name announced?  When I heard my name announced, for a moment I couldn’t breathe. It felt...
Sho Otani

Sho Otani

Q: Your portfolio reveals a hidden world of sea creatures in their earliest, most fragile stages. What first inspired you to focus on photographing these “floating babies”? I don’t think there was any one major trigger. Each encounter with the floating babies,...
Yehor Lemzyakoff

Yehor Lemzyakoff

Q: “Misplaced Childhood” captures a very specific and poignant contradiction: children engaged in play while simultaneously bearing the weight of adult responsibilities. What drew you, personally, to explore this theme in rural Poland?  To be honest, we...
Romain Thiery

Romain Thiery

Q: You’ve been working on this project for more than a decade, discovering over a hundred abandoned pianos worldwide. What first drew you to this subject, and why has it remained such a lasting focus for you? I began my musical training at the age of five in a music...
Luciano Perbellini

Luciano Perbellini

Your book focuses on the daily experiences of people who are often overlooked or marginalised. How did you decide which stories and faces to include, and what guided your selection process? The book Brazil: Fragile Balances is not about marginalised situations or...
Piotr Zbierski

Piotr Zbierski

Your work spans 15 years, from 2010 to 2025, weaving together negatives and polaroids. How has your relationship with analog photography evolved throughout this period? From the very beginning, photography has been a very personal and intimate process for me. I choose...