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"Photographic Visions" is a biannual exhibition at PH21 Gallery showcasing mini-series of works from selected artists who submitted their portfolios for our solo exhibition competition. Our goal is to celebrate the work of photographers with progressive and visionary portfolios, pushing the boundaries of photography in the 21st century.

"Photographic Visions – Autumn 2025" features three images presented in mini-series from the selected photographers.

To learn more about the photographers, click on their names to visit their respective websites.

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Exhibiting artists:​

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Barcelona, October 18 – November 11, 2025:

 

Abdelrahman Alkahlout

bombardment. Through my lens, I seek not only to document destruction but also to reveal the resilience, faith, and humanity that survive amidst the ruins. Each image is both a testimony and a plea, bearing witness to lives lost and voices silenced. I believe photography can transcend borders, demanding that the world confront injustice it might otherwise ignore. These photographs are not just records of atrocity, but calls for remembrance, resistance, and dignity.

 

Lindsay Brice

Visual order appears to me. I position myself for the compositions I desire. Often, I respond to an unexpected element that makes an image stronger. My practice is more measured when I make still-life photographs of dolls. I make this work in solitude. My subconscious must be allowed to flow unimpeded. Dolls serve as actors in my imagined moments. Each tableau begins with a flicker of an idea. I don't question it. This improvisation continues to the release of the shutter. I have my own inner narrative as I arrange a tableau. The images evoke different interpretations from viewers based on their own experiences, and, often, their secrets. As dolls are vessels of the imagination, each person's response and interpretation is perfectly valid.

 

Diana Cheren Nygren

There have been 37 epochs in the history of the Earth. Humans have existed for less than two, but our impact has been tremendously outsized. This multilayered work includes scenes of human habitation behind acrylic, affixed within sweeping landscapes shaped by climate change. The painted frames allude to Earth's next chapter. In spite of human activity, the Earth continues to transform and reinvent itself. The Earth is not coming to an end. Its inhabitants cannot escape the power to shape their existence. As nature reinvents itself, can we adapt with it? Will we be part of that next chapter?

 

Barbora Fišerová

This collection displays the perks of being a human in this lifetime. capturing everyday-life moments, some shots might evoke nostalgia or melancholy while other scream silence. The background represents strict controllable composition, in contrast of that is the free-spirited human being, like detailly planned movie set, where u can control everything but the actor.

 

Janelle Freiman

The Barber: Walking in Liverpool I came upon this barbershop. Using my rangefinder, I took his photo as he was at work. The environment was so quintessential Liverpool. 

Coming and Going: Barcelona, bustling with people from all over the world. I was in the teashop in the Barrio Gotico and looking from the teashop I saw people coming and reflections of those going. It was such an artistic scene.

Playa's: Wandering through the old Havana, I turned a corner to the street musician. I waited to hear them as long as I could because they were so great! I shot this photo and they were just in their groove.

 

Sari Fried-Fiori

An artist since the age of four, Sari’s creative path has included painting in acrylic, oil, and charcoal, as well as music, performing as a pianist and flutist for over 30 years. Since 2005, she has dedicated herself to photography, completing multiple courses at the Houston Center for Photography and advanced training in contemplative (Miksang) photography. In 2012, she left a long corporate career to pursue fine art photography full-time. Using a variety of cameras, she captures single, often decisive moments in one shot. She believes that art has been a life-saving force throughout her own journey and is devoted to helping others experience art as both an aesthetic encounter and a path toward healing.

 

Susanna Hagström

My work explores the interplay of light, water, and stone as symbols of human emotions, transformation, and memories. Water carries presence — overwhelming, tender, embracing. It also shapes, purifies, and renews the solid form of stone through the passage of time, memory, and now

When light and water meet, fleeting visions appear: revelations of both surface and depth, the visible and the hidden. Stone remembers, holding the slow traces of time and unseen processes. For me this also carries a personal resonance, as my Catalan family name Còdol means ‘rounded stone’, connecting the work to memory, heritage and identity.

 

Kylo-Patrick Hart

The three images included in this exhibition have been culled from my series Wild Western Blur, which combines the aesthetic appeals of intentional camera movement with the historically mythic storytelling appeals of the American Wild West. As can be seen in the offerings of this collection, my overall approach to photography and related forms of artistic production results from the combined influences of Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Impressionism, and Surrealism, all of which affect how I see the world around me and then proceed to document it. This process involves important decisions regarding matters of abstraction, distortion, fragmentation, and emotional affect as well as whether to capture a subject realistically or instead quite innovatively.

 

Margrieta Jeltema

A love story in the Etruscan land, evoking the "Minneliederen" of the Troubadours; A song of death and love and hope that came to life when all at the same time three enormous Agave plants flowered in the garden of the monastery of the “Madonna del Giglio” near my house.  It took them a whole year to flower and another year to wither and die. It was a sacred event, awesome and sad and beautiful at the same time.

 

Meg Greene Malvasi

For many years, I struggled with traditional forms of photography—just taking the picture has never been enough. Composite images guide me towards a different sensibility-one that relies upon and draws from a more intuitive approach. It is not so much the question of "why are you putting that there," but rather "why not put that there?" My photo composites go beyond the traditional photomontage approach; I photograph collage elements, fabric, found objects, and drawings to create multi-layered imagery. These layers incorporate stacks of colors, visual ideas, shapes, and patterns. I also use blending modes to add or subtract from an image. The result is not based on an absolute or fixed idea of what I think the image should be, but rather one that speaks to an intuitive self and expression. 

 

 

Budapest, October 18 – November 11, 2025:

 

Daniel Agra

Over time, his works have achieved wide appreciation, recognition and international dissemination. The more than 50 awards and international honour mentions of photography that he has achieved during his career should be emphasised, he has shown his work and participated in exhibitions across various countries. His work can be found in national and international museums, foundations and private art and photography collections.

 

András Ikládi

CITRAMARINE: There are many kinds of blue - all the same blue, yet with inexhaustible permutations of appearance, impact and meaning. Artists have long chased the sensory thrills ignited by tropical light and the myriad hues of blue, embarking on journeys to distant lands of the Caribbean or Africa.

Tropical hues possess a unique potency to evoke emotions, shape narratives, and even alter moods. The warm embrace of tropical light, the caressing warm breeze and the soft, grainy sand trigger profound responses within our souls, allowing us to enter another space, where the interplay of light and colour reaches into the depths of human experience. Citramarine is a realm beyond visual perception.

 

Ladka Kurzrock

A Timeless Japanese Beauty: Photographed in Japan on Coming of Age Day, when 20-year-old women wear magnificent Furisode kimonos to celebrate adulthood. A moment that captures the grace and tradition of Japanese culture. Elegance and Couture Have No Age: Taken in Tokyo’s Ginza district, this elegant woman caught my eye as she walked through the bright midday sun. Her refined style and silver hair embody ageing with grace and timeless sophistication. Title: Spirituality of Tibet: Captured in Lhasa, the spiritual heart of Tibetan Buddhism, at Jokhang Temple. This woman’s deep devotion during prayer — the ritual of prostrations — reflects the profound spirituality of Tibet.

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Dai Nakamura

In Japan, the ancient belief that countless deities inhabit nature and daily life continues to shape the spirit of our culture. Rituals such as Hatsumode and Shichi-Go-San, though no longer practiced solely as acts of faith, endure as cherished moments that weave together family and community. Shrines, at once sacred and social, embody a continuity of identity—offering harmony with nature and a quiet refuge for reflection. Even in a modern age, they remain spaces where the presence of the divine can still be felt. Through my photography, I seek to capture this subtle mystique, where silence, divinity, and human presence converge into a timeless atmosphere.

 

Michael G. Prais: Structure and Chaos

This project is a first search for and an examination of chaos. Our world is naturally chaotic, so we are driven to build enduring structures to stand figuratively in the face of chaos and to protect ourselves. Secondly, this project is a critique of our propensity to consume and discard. When a structure loses its usefulness to its creator/owner, it is pushed aside or destroyed when its in the way.  These structures have lost their value except as the occasional monument to deterioration and loss. I find these chaotic sites peaceful and relaxing, a reflection of presence that proceeded me. These structures are outside: unprotected, beaten and battered. They are “old warriors” on the battlefield of life. They show strength in the face of adversity. Nonetheless, deterioration and loss is sad future for all of us.

 

Joseph Sharketti

Silence begins as a choice—a moment of hesitation, a thought left unspoken. But over time, it shifts. What starts as simply withholding words becomes something heavier, something deeper. It is the slow erosion of voice, the creeping sense that what we have to say holds no weight; that we hold no weight. Through its composition and symbolism, Reticence examines how self-imposed silence isolates, how it distorts identity, and how, when left unchecked, it can culminate in resentment and bitterness, and a loss of purpose. (Full statement on website)

 

Anne Staveley & Jill Sutherland

We are Anne Staveley and Jill Sutherland, the creators of the Circle of Doors Tarot (circleofdoorstarot.com). We share a passion for photography that leaps and dances through the worlds of portraiture, editorial, documentary, and fine art. Creating powerful portraits, large-scale photography murals, award winning interactive art. We recently completed The Circle of Doors Tarot, an evocative fine art Tarot deck and interactive art installation celebrating feminine power. “Every shoot is an adventure, every subject is a whole world of possibility.” 

 

Jill Sutherland

Correspondence II: An ongoing multiple exposure series featuring portraits and vintage postcards from around the world… Postcards of love, from lands unknown, inscribed with care, our feelings shown, let correspondence be our guide, In this dance of hearts, side by side.

 

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Budapest, November 15 – December 9, 2025:

 

Betty Goh

“Subconscious” explores the vibrancy and adrenaline of city life while revealing the hidden loneliness, tension, and dilemmas beneath its surface. Growing up within the city’s restless pulse, Betty has always sensed the fluid interplay of light and shadow, clarity and obscurity. In this ever-shifting landscape, contrasts coexist, forming a rhythm as complex and mysterious as her own journey through life. Her work reflects these dualities with authenticity, embracing both the visible and the hidden. Through unposed, single-exposure street photography with minimal editing, she turns fleeting urban moments into introspective expressions of the soul.

 

Conrado Ferreira Krainer

My art exists where nature becomes body and memory, with flowers captured in the interplay of light and shadow. I see beauty as ephemeral, a metaphor for human fragility and botanical resilience. Photography, for me, is both vessel and bridge—linking portraiture, experimental media, technology, and ancestral echoes. Flowers are not decorative, but witnesses of cycles that reveal memory, absence, and resistance. Through them, I reclaim art as a political act, questioning fragility, time, and the silent persistence of life.

 

Madeleine Morlet

 

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Emy Ori

My work explores memory, absence, and intimate traces of presence through photography and experimental processes such as emulsion lifts and scanned imagery. I create fragile, tactile images that transform emotional states into layered visual forms. The series Petites Pensées Suspendues invites viewers to engage with personal and collective memory, blurring the line between presence and disappearance. Each piece emphasizes ambiguity and openness, allowing the viewer’s imagination to complete what is only partially visible.

 

Jeff Schewe

My body of work, “Black & White in Antarctica – Photographs From the Bottom of the Earth” presents photographs drawn from three unforgettable expeditions to the southernmost continent, Antarctica. Through the medium of black and white, I focus on the ever-changing light and the rich textures it reveals across this stark landscape. Removing color allows the drama of shadow, form, and design to emerge with greater intensity. Each image reflects my fascination with both the beauty and the fragility of this forbidding environment. Beyond their visual impact, I hope these photographs inspire deeper awareness of Antarctica’s essential role in our global climate system.

 

Marilyn Smith

After the waves reflects Marilyn's fascination with the dynamics of water, wind, the properties of sand and other forces that 'toss' a new pattern as each wave passes. Often, it means working quickly before a pattern is washed away. Or, standing still to capture dramatic changes that occur in a matter of minutes. Post-COVID-19, when 'waves' became front-page news and a source of anxiety, the series reminds us that beauty can emerge from chaos. 

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Máté Steindl

​I first came to Los Angeles by chance, with no specific plan in mind, but something about the city immediately captivated me. As a Hungarian, I was drawn to its open spirit, cinematic atmosphere, and uplifting energy that felt both surreal and addictively real. Over the years, I kept returning, camera in hand, to capture the everyday poetry of LA’s streets: classic cars, eccentric characters, iconic corners from movies, and the contrast between dream and disillusion. These three images are part of “Stories from Los Angeles” series. 

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