Artdoc Photography Magazine

Artdoc is an international digital magazine dedicated to the world of photography. The name Artdoc refers to our vision of art photography and documentary photography. The two fields have merged, and contemporary photography is a blend of both. Artdoc brings photography as the visual storytelling medium of our time. Artdoc Photography Magazine publishes engaging and high-quality portfolios of established and emerging photographers. Moreover, Artdoc publishes critical essays about the theory of photography.

The Hidden Language of Abstract Photography

Not If But When • Auckland is situated above a volcanic field, and Linda Jarrett has centred her series Not If But When on this geological feature. Her work explores this imminent threat by examining how photography can represent forces that stay hidden until they cause a disaster. Jarrett collected volcanic ash, scoria, soil, and plant matter from the area, placing them on expired photographic paper and exposing these compositions to sunlight. The lumen prints created display vibrant, unstable colours resulting from the chemical reactions between the materials and the light-sensitive surface. By emphasising abstraction rather than straightforward documentation, Jarrett redefines photography as a tool for geological and philosophical contemplation, aligning it with the scale of what it seeks to address.

Past, Passing, or to Come

What remains when you look around • Lori Pond combines photography, video, and mixed media to explore timeless human concerns such as mortality, impermanence, the unreliability of perception, and the fleeting yet regenerative act of being present. Based in Los Angeles, she leverages her four decades of Hollywood experience in a practice fueled by curiosity and a desire for beauty. Her work spans elaborate staged productions with models and costume designers to intimate, experimental projects done quietly with careful attention. Influenced by Buddhist studies and a lifelong instinct for keen observation, her art reflects on an era dominated by screens, where the natural world often goes unnoticed. “Fortunately, I’ve always been curious. Experiencing small wonders is my joy, and putting my phone away allows me to do that.”

Corporate Geometry

The Extracted Earth • Michael Naify’s series Aerial focuses on the iron mines and steel plants in Minas Gerais, Brazil, from a high altitude, where industrial landscapes dissolve into abstract fields of colour, texture, and form. Terraced pit walls resemble geological layers, pools of toxic runoff are as vivid as pigments, and pipe networks reduce to geometric shapes reminiscent of circuit boards or ancient city layouts. The work supports a clear conceptual stance: the aerial view mirrors the perceptual distance that enables resource extraction at this scale, inviting viewers into the logic it depicts. Grounded in a region shaped by mining since the Portuguese colonial period, Aerial presents the landscape as both a visual attraction and a material reality.

Perspectives on Aerial Photography • At high altitude, roads appear illogical, forests become textures, and water reflects like a mirror or paint. This cultivates a unique kind of focus that is more objective and abstract than what can be achieved from the ground. The photographer decides how close to stand, how much to include, and where to frame the shot. Aerial photography imposes a perspective that no human body naturally takes—viewing straight down at a world that has transformed into pure abstraction.

A personal memorial to unknown victims • During the Second World War, the Nazis murdered the patients of a psychiatric hospital in Latvia. Although it may seem a minor historical footnote, the cruelty’s impact is not only historical but also creates intergenerational trauma. British visual artist Sarah Ketelaars was shortlisted by the Sony World Photography Awards...