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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German photographer Eva Abeling takes us on an intimate visual journey as she unveils an exclusive editorial for IGNANT, ‘Mallorca in Slow Motion’, shot on the Balearic island off the east coast of Spain. Possessing a timeless quality, the ethereal collection of analog images transports us to a realm where we can feel the emotions and stories embedded within each frame.

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French director and photographer Thibaut Grevet captures moments as they unfold, unscripted and unfiltered, resulting in dreamlike and abstract visuals that invite viewers to see the world in new ways. We caught up with the artist to discuss his recently released, and first solo book Blurred—a collection of blurred images highlighting the fleeting nature of life.

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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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Originally hailing from Austria, Berlin-based photographer Matthias Leidinger is a young creative brimming with talent and ideas. At only 21, he may just be getting started, but he has mastered the formula of successful storytelling. Hopping between visual aesthetics, he proves the mettle of his craft with contemplative photographs that draw viewers in immediately. His latest project, the IGNANT exclusive ‘AD2186’, offers a taste of his unique gift.

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The work of Paris-based photographer Ludovic Balay spans fashion, still life, travel, interior design, and more. Beautifully lit and styled, his compelling visual tales are aesthetically pleasing records of everyday life—carefully shot through a dreamy lens of vivid colors and engagements with natural light hoping to lend ordinariness a new aesthetic dimension and meaning.

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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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Moving between commercial and personal projects, Paris-based photography and director duo Kulesza & Pik create elegant and dynamic fashion visuals that bring out the natural beauty of their subjects along with an emotional weight that reaches the soul. Honest and pure, their photographs soothe both eye and mind, drawing viewers in from a distance and engaging their interest up close.

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Zellweger Warmwear is a new Berlin-based brand which seeks to promote environmentally sensitive habits of comfort through timeless homeware and accessories. Shot by talented photographer Gwenaëlle Trannoy, their introductory campaign is a poetic and visual manifesto of the company’s cosmos—one that embraces its core values while emphasizing the exquisite storytelling that makes the brand so intriguing.

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Vietnamese photographer Chiron Duong has shared with IGNANT his latest series ‘Portraits of Áo Dài: Hope for Peace and Love’—a collection of timeless images and elegantly crafted stories through which the artist hopes to put forward new ways of seeing and imagining Vietnam. Here, he explains more about the project and the intriguing messages concealed within it.

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Nikk Martin’s photographs are hard to encapsulate: suspended in enigmatic narratives, his immaculate compositions are a nuanced interpretation of fashion, documentary, and landscape photography—one that draws viewers in with unique storytelling and vibrancy. Here, the German photographer tells us more about the process and vision behind his many exciting shots.

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In 2017, renowned Danish photographer Søren Solkær set out across Europe to capture the transfixing beauty of the large murmurations of starlings during their migrations. Years later, the many images of this unique phenomenon have resulted in the intriguing fine art project and publication Black Sun.

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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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