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 ★ Friday Feature An accidental injury to my left cornea left me unable to keep both eyes open for more than two weeks. ...
11/07/2025

★ Friday Feature

An accidental injury to my left cornea left me unable to keep both eyes open for more than two weeks. During this brief but intense period, I had to keep my eyes shut to ease the pain, rendering my glasses useless. With my myopia, my world dissolved into shifting, unfocused shapes, ripples of color and glare and shadow. These unique visual experiences lingered long after recovery, prompting me to reconsider not only the refractive error of my eyes but the nature of seeing itself.

We tend to believe vision is reliable, a clear window to the world. But when I tried to examine my own reflection, struggling to bring my eyes into focus, I understood how fragile and uncertain sight can be. Just as Merleau-Ponty wrote: “The enigma derives from the fact that my body simultaneously sees and is seen. That which looks at all things can also look at itself and recognize, in what it sees, the ‘other side’ of its power of looking.” My eyes were both seeing and being seen, yet nothing felt truly in focus.

My experience of blurred vision was not just a distortion; it became an alternate way, or perhaps the intrinsic way of sensing the world. Merleau-Ponty reminds us that vision isn’t merely about receiving images; it’s about how we move, how we inhabit space, and how our bodies shape what we perceive. Seeing, then, was no longer only about looking. It was about feeling, remembering, and imagining what lay beyond the haze.

Near-far moves between these states, focus and dissolution, presence and absence, intimacy and distance. It makes me wonder what it truly means to see, and how much of our vision is shaped not by the eyes, but by everything else we carry within us. It could be near, and still far.

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Community Collection • All new goodies submitted by our talented community members! Every week it’s a different visual s...
09/07/2025

Community Collection • All new goodies submitted by our talented community members! Every week it’s a different visual story and we love it! 😍

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.focus x Broadmag x Monday  High Five • capture by Andy Furtak
07/07/2025

.focus x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Andy Furtak

Giuliana Borrelli ★ Friday Feature When I began working on this project, I didn’t realize that photographing my home was...
04/07/2025

Giuliana Borrelli ★ Friday Feature

When I began working on this project, I didn’t realize that photographing my home was, in many ways, to become closer to my family, while also confronting the loneliness I often felt in their presence. Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I frequently felt voiceless, with little space to exist as my own person. Over time, I lost touch with my sense of identity, becoming someone shaped by the expectations and directions of others.

Moving abroad initially deepened these feelings of disconnection. I felt lost, carrying a fractured sense of self with me, until I moved to Norway in 2019. Slowly, things began to change. I realized that the root of my struggles was not being in touch with myself and so, reclaiming that connection became vital. Owning a space of my own became a turning point, changing how I related both to my childhood home and to my family, the people who, despite everything, remain the closest to me.

Through images, I document the people, space, and landscape of my home in Italy, emphasizing the longing and the ties that connect us. At the same time, I photograph my home in Norway, what has now become a nest of refuge. The relationships we build with spaces and our deep need for familiarity are central themes to this work.

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Community Collection • New frames from our brilliant community members! Week after week we’re blown away by your creativ...
02/07/2025

Community Collection • New frames from our brilliant community members! Week after week we’re blown away by your creativity! 😍

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.babigeon x Broadmag x Monday  High Five • capture by Julien Babigeon
30/06/2025

.babigeon x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Julien Babigeon

 ★ Friday Feature The tavern, the pub was the defining and fundamental venue of provincial life for a long time. The pub...
27/06/2025

★ Friday Feature

The tavern, the pub was the defining and fundamental venue of provincial life for a long time. The pub was the place where the laborers threw back the cheapest kind of shots at dawn in order to gain strength for the daily sweat; the place where the retired policeman and firefighter met during the mornings to discuss the weekend’s football matches over a fröccs. It was the place where abandoned husbands could lean on the counter and whine about their problems that life is not worth a dime without a wife who left them on their own for good only a week ago. The pub was the place where no one asked you but someone always listened to you.

In recent years several rural taverns had to close their doors permanently or had to transform themselves into something totally different, deprived from their original functions. In my photo series I am going to visit and photograph the pubs which are still in business in Heves county’s settlements under the population of 3000 inhabitants. I was born and raised in the county of my project, therefore my choice was a rather personal one. Heves county is located in the northeast part of Hungary, in the Northern Hungary region. It is composed of 107 villages, 3 towns and 11 cities. According to the census carried out in 2018 the population of the county is around 295.000 people, however the tendencies of the past years are showing a constant decrease of this number. The rural life as I know it has started to transform entirely due to the desolation of smaller settlements.

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Community Collection • Summer goodies from our community members! 😍Congrats to everyone featured in this week’s collecti...
26/06/2025

Community Collection • Summer goodies from our community members! 😍

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 ★ Friday Feature Paris is elusive chaos. After living in Tokyo for over 20 years, this city seemed new and complex to m...
20/06/2025

★ Friday Feature

Paris is elusive chaos. After living in Tokyo for over 20 years, this city seemed new and complex to me. For the past two years, I have lived in the suburbs and have always looked at the city as an outsider.
People in Paris are quietly separated. This is not due to any visible conflict, but rather each person has created a safe zone, respecting each other’s space. Diversity is ensured through the gathering of similar communities and the sharing of “incomprehensibility”.

This sense of distance made me start walking along the Périphérique, the ring road that encircles Paris. While moving back and forth between the inside and the outside, I photographed the ambiguous space that stretches between the two. In this repetitive motion of rejection, acceptance, and separation again, I began to capture the urban landscape as well as my own inner self and my mental distance from others.

Périphérique is not just geographical boundary, but symbolize social, cultural, and mental separation. Its circles are dotted with intermediate areas that have spilled over from planning and consciousness, piled with rubble, temporary dwellings, small gardens, and human traces. It is a landscape that has become invisible in everyday life, yet speaks simultaneously of human tenacity and indifference.

This project is an attempt to visualize not only places, but also the “transparent boundaries” that exist between people. Through overlooked landscapes, I hope to create an opportunity to confront the social and mental separation that we unconsciously hold.

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Community Collection • New week, new goodies straight from your cameras! 😍Congrats to everyone in this week’s collection...
18/06/2025

Community Collection • New week, new goodies straight from your cameras! 😍

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 x Broadmag x Monday  High Five • capture by Murat Taner
16/06/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Murat Taner

 ★ Friday Feature During the summer in the extreme northern latitudes, the concept of night dissolves, the sun never set...
13/06/2025

★ Friday Feature

During the summer in the extreme northern latitudes, the concept of night
dissolves, the sun never sets, remaining suspended in an infinite twilight.

These images capture that magical and ethereal light of the midnight sun between Finland and Norway, telling the story of the encounter between nature and light, revealing surreal nuances and atmospheres that challenge the perception of day and night.

The sun, instead of disappearing beyond the horizon, remains suspended in a fragile balance, dyeing the sky with unique colors. This visual experience is a tribute to the cosmic wonder of our planet, where time seems to stop and light becomes an eternal presence, evoking the thin line between reality and dream.

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