Monaris is a photographer with a passion for visual storytelling. As an Adobe Lightroom and Sony Ambassador, she has developed a distinct creative style focused on composition and color theory that lives to transform brief instances of reality into movies

When you're stuck at home and nothing much is going on, getting photos can be tricky... that's where documentary photography comes in.

© Maria Kolesnikova | Non-close relatives Human Stories is an online photography exhibition aiming to convey the human experience's essence through documentary storytelling. #photographymagazine #humanstories #onlineexhibition #photoexhibition

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On this day: Silas climbed into our bed early in the morning and Arlo spent the whole night in his bed, a new development which left me engorged and leaking. Arlo finally made it up onto the…

Documentary photography is meant to provide an accurate representation of people, places, and events. The key word here is accurate. While documentary photographs are often impactful and emotion generating they won’t show the wildly distorted angles or colors found in other styles. Monochrome/sepia to create a mood or add emphasis to other features is sometimes done. Vignetting an image, a darkening of the borders of the photograph is another common choice but these two techniques are often…

The Kilburn-raised photographer talks us through his evocative portfolio, lensing “the beauty and warmth” of his community, as well as his Afro-Caribbean and North African culture