Though he views photography as a medium for storytelling, Zissou’s images don’t insist on a narrative. Both crisp and ethereal, they’re encoded with an ambiguity—a certain tension—that lets the viewer find their own story within them. Portraying daily chores and sacred celebrations, the faces of foreigners and locals, they reflect the view of a self-described “long-term tourist,” who over the course of a decade, has woven himself into the fabric of the Balinese landscape and his local community, and who through his presence and participation has earned the respect of its members to bear witness to it. In his own words are fragments of his story. In conversation with Ignant at his open-air bamboo home, the self-taught photographer offers his perspectives on image-making and manipulation, the camera as a tool for storytelling, and the things that really matter.

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Even over video call – from his home base of Franklin, Tennessee – Joe Greer is all in. His presence is magnetic, radiating the same qualities as his images –vibrancy, depth, unfiltered emotion. For those familiar with the self-taught photographer’s well-documented life story – from traumatic loss to the exaltations of his faith – his transparency may come as no surprise. Yet it still reads as radical. He doesn’t skip a beat when invited to reverse engineer the components of a timeless photo. But as with his muses Joel Meyerowitz and Steve McCurry, his is a formula that can’t be emulated. There’s something else going behind every release of the shutter: an elusive magic that stems from his approach to life itself.

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Photography possesses the outstanding power to evoke a wide range of emotions within us, transcending time and space—it can communicate stories, stir empathy, and inspire action. Among the many talented photographers featured on IGNANT over the years, one particularly stands out for his thought-provoking work: the Berlin-based Mustafah Abdulaziz. His highly acclaimed ongoing project, ‘Water’, has the rare ability to transport viewers into the heart of the captured moment, stimulating introspection and igniting a sense of connection to the world. We caught up with the artist to discuss the project’s latest chapter, ‘Arctic’, and how his images encourage us to recognize the beauty and complexity of our relationship with Earth.

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Dutch photographer Mark Rammers has shared with IGNANT the first chapter of his latest photographic project, ‘all over again’—captured while in residency at Hektor, an old farm in Los Valles, Lanzarote. Titled ‘Beginnings’, the mesmerizing collection of images is a visual and meditative journey into the origins of regrets and the uncertainty of stepping into new unknowns.

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With his series Dyal Thak, photographer Kin Coedel takes us on a journey to Tibet, where he has beautifully captured how nomadic communities carefully weave threads between a traditional lifestyle and an ever-changing world.

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“This is a story on the border between reality and imaginary, about the contradictory feelings that the insularity of a rocky, arid, and wild territory provokes”—so French photographer Clément Chapillon describes his latest highly captivating project Les rochers fauves (French for ‘The tawny rocks’). Now compiled in a book released with Dunes Editions, the series is a documentary and metaphorical intimate record of the clashing, at times incomprehensible, feelings caused by the Greek island of Amorgos’s remoteness and almost untouched wilderness.

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Based between Amsterdam and Berlin, Lukas Korschan is a photographer whose work engages with both documentary, fashion, and sport photography to survey the lived experiences and questions of modernity. Released this month, its first publication Nowhere Anywhere Everywhere is a poetic exploration of nonplaces—a captivating collection of fugitive sights and transient public spaces that trigger deep thought.

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Italian photographer Simone Bossi charges his images with a unique emotive power rarely found in the universe of architectural photography. Carrying a certain intrigue that stokes the desire to experience space in its many facets, his minimalist imagery invokes an atmosphere of meditation that transcends time and place. IGNANT caught up with the creative to learn more about his technique, his motivation, and the way he sees the world.

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Czech photographer Jan Khür captures the details we often forget: the sharp outlines of a rocky landscape; a blooming flower’s delicate shades of pink; the way wind causes poetic movement across seas. The Oslo-based photographer has traveled through some of the world’s most exquisitely scenic regions, developing a need to visually record his experiences. Here, he tells us more.

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Barcelona-based photographer Martina Matencio’s work is an intimate celebration of love, desire, and touch—where nostalgia and melancholy coexist among a light and emotive atmosphere.

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Russian street photographer Eric Kogan moves through public spaces, observing and capturing the beauty of random sights on the streets of New York, where he currently resides. Unexpected and quirky, his perfectly-timed images of city birds invite viewers to see the magic in everyday moments.

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Austria-based Ghanaian photographer Eric Asamoah has shared with IGNANT his latest series ‘The Day After Tomorrow’; a collection of sensual and meditative images exploring the transition of boyhood to adulthood and finding contentment within its endless possibilities.

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Typically, nature offers us humbling respite against the stark realities of life; we find the sublime in tiers of clouds, in the sun setting behind mountains, or in the curves of sand dunes in a desert. Yet what happens to the authenticity of this human phenomenon when our own actions are destroying such places?

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Parisian photographer Fabien Dendiével documents the splendor of natural landscapes across the world, through compelling imagery conducive to contemplation and wonder. Shot with analog medium format film, his series’ ‘American West’ and ‘Sultanate of Oman’ both feature empty spaces and stripped-down compositions, which reflect the photographer’s fondness for solitude.

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Canadian photographer Peter Bogaczewicz’s new series ‘Surface Tensions’ is an ongoing investigation of the relationships between the natural and man-made environments within the Arabian Peninsula, where he currently resides. Brimming with tension and unexpected harmony, his images emphasize the dichotomy between history and progress, nature and culture, and past and present.

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