A growing wave of what we can only define as fine art conceptual monochrome, imagery that merges poetic atmosphere, symbolic storytelling, and deliberate minimalism.
In this new series of RAWGUE. Editors’ Picks, we would like to express our appreciation for some of the most remarkable, devoted, and underrated emerging photographers in our community through a series of articles dedicated to their work, highlighting the pieces that have resonated with us the most.
Over the past months, we have noticed a growing wave of what we can only define as fine art conceptual monochrome, a hybrid imagery that merges poetic atmosphere, symbolic storytelling, and deliberate minimalism. The artists featured in this series explore themes such as solitude, identity, and emotion through carefully staged compositions.
Technically, their predominantly black and white works often embrace soft light, subtle grain, high contrast and blurred motion, placing less emphasis on spontaneity and more on concept, metaphor, and tone, whether it is a portrait, a landscape, a street photo, or an experimental abstract.
Below you can find our 1st selection out of 4 in the series titled Cold Fever, featuring artworks of some exceptional photographers. Please visit their portfolios and show your support by following their journey.
Louise Freyer
Louise Fryer‘s art features landscape, portrait, and street photography, with a focus on minimalism, dark, and retro styles. As a technique, Fryer’s choices are long and multiple exposures, as well as shallow depth of field. Follow the artist on Instagram.
Diana Petrova
Diana Petrova focuses on striking (sometimes mirrored) diptychs, landscape, and still life photography. The artists’ style combines minimalism, surreal, and dramatic lighting, with a technique that can be described as a mix of multiple exposure on film photography. Follow the artist on Instagram.
Marko Brajković
Marko Brajković‘s vision encapsulates the essence of street-photography with nature and even documentary / photojournalism. The style brings together dramatic light and shadow plays, retro, high contrasts, and low-key moody atmosphere. As a technique, Brajković uses double-exposure, light cropping, intentional camera movement, and action freezing to capture their subjects. Follow the artist on Instagram.
Benjamin Wesley Morgan
The eerie, hauntingly beautiful art of Benjamin Wesley Morgan (known as Eerie Cornwall on Instagram) combines landscape, nature and conceptual photography. Their astonishing style blends soft focus, dreamy aesthetics, cold tones monochrome, and dark moods, through long exposure film photography and motion blur.
Lena Siopi
Lena Siopi delves into the depths of conceptual self-portraiture through a style that borrows influences from vintage, surreal, almost dream-like atmosphere, and the dark tones of abandoned buildings photography. The techniques used vary from composite and digital manipulation, to film photography and double-exposure. Find more works on Instagram.
Sigrid Üllim
The nature, weather, and landscape photography of Sigrid Üllim combines gritty and melancholic dreamscapes with the beauty of minimalism and at times an experimental approach. Long exposure, shallow depth of field, and even macro photography can be traced in their photography. Follow the artist on Instagram for more.
Alevtina Salenko
Alevtina Salenko works on defining their own sub-genre, by blending portrait, still life, with an unexpected twist of editorial, photojournalism and experimental photography. Their style focuses mainly on retro and gritty aesthetics, with traces of dark atmosphere, soft focus and heavily textured captures. As techniques used in Salenko’s photography we can mention film photography, intentional camera movement, digital overlays, and backlighting. Follow the artist on Instagram.
Lucia Bottegoni
Lucia Bottegoni focuses almost exclusively on editorial conceptual portraiture, with either abandoned buildings scenes or wild nature used as backdrops. Swinging between long exposure, film photography, and motion blur, Bottegoni’s artistic approach blends high-key and fine art techniques, as well as retro and at times cinematic perspectives. Find more on artist’s Instagram page.
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