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Pictorialists were the first ever photographers who presented the case to the art world for photography to be classified as art and, in doing so, they instigated a discussion about the artistic value of photography. They wanted to elevate photography to the same level of painting. The Pictorial List was launched in January 2020 as a passion project to inspire and support the diverse community of photographers and visual storytellers. Our global online magazine explores the beauty and complexity of all things photography. Dedicated to the inspirational and cultural significance of photography, it exists to tell personal stories from all around the world and to showcase photographers whose pictures convey the essence of a place, or who find the extraordinary in an ordinary place; photographers whose images tell a story.

presents UNBECOMING———————————————————————in conversation with // KALLIOPE AMORPHOUSKalliope Amorphous —————————————————...
09/27/2026

presents UNBECOMING
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in conversation with // KALLIOPE AMORPHOUS
Kalliope Amorphous
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To unbecome describes a threshold rather than a loss, a space between presence and absence that Kalliope Amorphous returns to often in her thinking about the self. Reflection, distortion, repetition, and entropy function in her work as both subject and tool, making images that resist fixed representation in favor of something she describes as fluid and fragmented, open to ongoing interpretation rather than settled into a single meaning.

Kalliope creates her self-portraits entirely in camera using a hand-built reflective chamber constructed from several types of reflective polyester film. The process is physical and optical. Distortion occurs before the photograph is fixed, so the final image records a real encounter between body, reflection, light and material.
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“Women have historically been expected to be beautiful in front of a camera. The face is supposed to remain pleasing and legible. Even when a portrait is intended to be strong or complex, there can still be that underlying expectation that the woman stays visually desirable. I wanted to see what happened if I removed that obligation without removing the actual femininity itself.”
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Read the full interview with Kalliope and see more of their photography on the website.
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09/27/2026

What happens when you step inside a camera?

You see differently.

A look inside our recent walk in camera obscura workshop for Oculus Obscura, where the camera became the classroom and the room itself became an image.

Led by Jill Einfield with Anne McDonald, photographers Peter Schrager and Paul Quinn joined us for a hands on exploration of pinhole photography, light, exposure, and the beautiful unpredictability of making images inside a camera obscura.

A huge thank you to the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation for making this project possible, to Jill and Anne for sharing their knowledge and passion, and to Peter and Paul for being part of the experience.

And we’re not finished yet.

More information coming soon about our next camera obscura workshop with Greg Wieting and Lynne Breitfeller.

Step inside. See what happens.

presents TRANSPARENT by William Josephs Radford William Joe Josephs Radford ———————————————————————“Transparent is the f...
09/20/2026

presents TRANSPARENT by William Josephs Radford William Joe Josephs Radford
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“Transparent is the fifth and final project in a series exploring the stages of grief. This final chapter represents acceptance. Over six months, I carefully removed my father from our family photographs. I then transformed these altered images into lenticular prints that change as you move. The shifting images reflect not only that he is no longer with us, but also how memories can change over time.”
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There are photographs we remember so clearly they begin to replace the moments they were meant to preserve. In Transparent, William Josephs Radford examines that uncertain space between memory, grief and the family archive. After his father’s death, William discovered how rarely he appeared in thousands of family photographs. He began removing him from selected images, reconstructing the spaces behind his figure as though he had never been there. The resulting work questions photography as evidence, asking how images shape what we remember, what they leave out, and how absence can become as powerful as presence itself.
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View William’s photographs and read their story on the website.
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OCULUS OBSCURA Presents: Cynthia Karalla Cynthia Karalla The eye becomes an aperture. Light enters. The world turns upsi...
09/13/2026

OCULUS OBSCURA

Presents: Cynthia Karalla Cynthia Karalla

The eye becomes an aperture. Light enters. The world turns upside down.

An exhibition exploring the camera obscura as both an optical phenomenon and an artistic language.

From the earliest experiments with projected light to contemporary practices that question how we see, the exhibition brings together ten artists working with camera obscura and pinhole photography to slow down perception and make the invisible visible.

And at the heart of it all is our new Walk-in Camera Obscura, created with generous support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation. Step inside and experience the fundamental act of photography before the camera became a machine: light, space, time, and the world itself projected through a single aperture.

The exhibition is accompanied by two Camera Obscura Workshops on September 19 and 20, led by Jill Enfield. Link in bio.

Pinhole photograph by Cynthia Karalla

presents KOLKATA MONSOON by Abir Choudhury Abir Choudhury ———————————————————————“For me, the arrival of the monsoon in ...
09/13/2026

presents KOLKATA MONSOON by Abir Choudhury Abir Choudhury
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“For me, the arrival of the monsoon in Kolkata is something I can almost feel before the rain actually begins. The light changes first. The sky becomes darker and softer, the air feels heavier, and there is a particular stillness in the streets, as if the city is waiting for something to happen.”
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Kolkata Monsoon is a study of return, observation, and change. Each year, Abir Choudhury goes back into the rain to photograph how Kolkata is altered by water and how people continue within it. Streets become harder to cross, routines are interrupted, work is affected, and familiar places shift in appearance and use. What began as separate photographs has become a long-term record of the city under pressure. The project looks closely at the unequal effects of the monsoon, but it also leaves room for humor, play, and connection. As the seasons become less predictable, the work has taken on a broader environmental meaning.
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View Abir Choudhury’s photographs and read their story on the website.
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OCULUS OBSCURA Presents : Chris Peregoy Chris Peregoy The eye becomes an aperture. Light enters. The world turns upside ...
09/10/2026

OCULUS OBSCURA

Presents : Chris Peregoy Chris Peregoy

The eye becomes an aperture. Light enters. The world turns upside down.

An exhibition exploring the camera obscura as both an optical phenomenon and an artistic language.

From the earliest experiments with projected light to contemporary practices that question how we see, the exhibition brings together ten artists working with camera obscura and pinhole photography to slow down perception and make the invisible visible.

And at the heart of it all is our new Walk-in Camera Obscura, created with generous support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation. Step inside and experience the fundamental act of photography before the camera became a machine: light, space, time, and the world itself projected through a single aperture.

The exhibition is accompanied by a two day Camera Obscura Workshop on September 19 and 20, led by Jill Enfield.

Pinhole photograph by Chris Peregoy

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Pictorial Foundation Presents Anne McDonaldOCULUS OBSCURAThe eye becomes an aperture. Light enters. The world turns upsi...
09/09/2026

Pictorial Foundation Presents Anne McDonald

OCULUS OBSCURA

The eye becomes an aperture. Light enters. The world turns upside down.

An exhibition exploring the camera obscura as both an optical phenomenon and an artistic language.

From the earliest experiments with projected light to contemporary practices that question how we see, the exhibition brings together ten artists working with camera obscura and pinhole photography to slow down perception and make the invisible visible.

And at the heart of it all is our new Walk-in Camerae Obscurae, created with generous support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation. Step inside and experience the fundamental act of photography before the camera became a machine: light, space, time, and the world itself projected through a single aperture.

The exhibition is accompanied by a two day Camera Obscura Workshop on September 19 and 20, led by Jill Enfield.

Pinhole photograph by Anne McDonald

presents THE LIFE WITHIN THE MOUNTAIN by Jing Wei Jing Documentary Photography ———————————————————————“Larung Gar taught...
08/30/2026

presents THE LIFE WITHIN THE MOUNTAIN by Jing Wei Jing Documentary Photography
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“Larung Gar taught me to look beyond the visible symbols of religion. I became more interested in the relationship between religious practice and everyday human experience, how belief appeared to shape the way people lived, studied, related to one another, and understood their place within a community.”
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There is a mountainside in eastern Tibet, its slopes covered by thousands of small dwellings in deep red, stacked so densely that, from a distance, they read less as architecture than as texture, like fish scales forming a second skin over the land. This is Larung Gar, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist academies in the world. Ten years after first encountering Larung Gar, documentary photographer Jing Wei returns to a changed mountain, tracing the continuity of faith, memory and the lives sustained within it.
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View Jing Wei’s photographs and read their story on the website.
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presents CONTOURS OF ABSENCE———————————————————————in conversation with // SERHII FETT⠀ ———————————————————————Serhii Fe...
08/23/2026

presents CONTOURS OF ABSENCE
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in conversation with // SERHII FETT
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Serhii Fett is a Ukrainian photographer based in Germany whose practice examines the relationship between constructed reality and psychological experience. Working with staged figures, concealed faces, ordinary objects, and controlled spatial arrangements, he investigates how identity and presence can be communicated beyond direct recognition. The body functions as a conceptual structure through which questions of memory, alienation, and absence are explored, while interiors, landscapes, and architectural elements operate as active components in the production of meaning. Serhii’s work is defined by a tension between visual precision and interpretive openness, allowing each photograph to sustain ambiguity without relinquishing conceptual coherence.
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“The starting point for me is usually not an object or a location, but an internal state. I am interested in experiences that are difficult to describe directly.”
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Read the full interview with Serhii and see more of their photography on the website.
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presents PROSCENIUM GHOSTS by Said Manseur IMAD | عماد ———————————————————————“In a country where institutional support...
08/16/2026

presents PROSCENIUM GHOSTS by Said Manseur IMAD | عماد
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“In a country where institutional support for the arts is scarce and cultural policies remain stagnant, these young artists refuse to wait for permission. They craft their own path. They write, direct, build, and perform every aspect of their production. Mékanizma is theirs, in every sense.”
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The project follows four young Algerian performers who give themselves fully to theatre. Said Manseur looks closely at the world that surrounds their practice: the waiting, the labour, and the shared purpose that gathers before an audience arrives.

His photographs move beyond the stage to consider what is required for art to exist before it is publicly seen. They hold the quieter spaces where discipline develops, where community becomes a working structure, and where meaning is built through collective effort. This is a story about young artists creating the conditions for their own visibility, and the quiet determination required to keep culture alive.
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