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 Space Between

American Vacation • Chinese-American photographer Wangkai Wei’s American Vacation draws on a life between China and the United States. Photographing ageing infrastructure and suburban edges, Wei explores the American landscape as a built environment shaped by human use and intervention. Working in the tradition of New Topographics, Wei combines intimacy with distance, shaped by his experience of both China and the United States. American Vacation turns ordinary American landscapes into reflections on displacement, belonging and cultural identity.

Welcome Home

Vanishing Vintage Architecture • In many American movies, we encounter the familiar architecture of an earlier era: motels, diners, gas stations and neon signs. They possess a magical and nostalgic beauty in their mundane ugliness, a quality already recognised by celebrated photographers such as Walker Evans and William Eggleston. Driven by his love of graphic design, American photographer Ben Geier captured many of these colourful remnants of roadside culture, often along the legendary Route 66.

The Organised Landscape • Guillaume Gorini’s Vertical Pulse uses drone photography to reveal the patterns created where human structures meet natural terrain. Seen directly from above, tennis courts, roads, roller coasters and fishing huts become geometric elements within the landscape. Gorini’s flattened perspective shows how people organise, occupy and alter space. The series brings urban design and natural formations into a shared visual language of shape, scale and human presence.

The Mausoleum of All Hope and Desire

The Rust Belt in Transition • Kaytlin Schmidt’s On The Heels of My Shadow examines the relationship between infrastructure and the environment across the Rust Belt of the United States. Formerly known as the Steel Belt, the region developed as a centre of American steel and metal production before experiencing industrial and economic decline. In a region marked by deindustrialisation, Schmidt is drawn to its resilience and continuing transformation. As steel mills, power plants and other structures disappear, photography becomes a means for Schmidt to document places whose topography is changing. “The Rust Belt displays an incredible amount of survival despite the deindustrialisation it has faced over the years, which is partly why I started making On The Heels of My Shadow.”

Living Space • Highlights of Artdoc Exhibitions

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Where Light Remains • In What Remains, Franck Lebegue photographs landscapes and places without human figures, where points of light emerge from the darkness. Natural and artificial illumination becomes the central element of the series, linked by Lebegue to the hearth as an early source of warmth, shelter and communal life. Against dark surroundings, these lights indicate places shaped by human presence, even when their occupants remain unseen. Their fleeting appearance gives each scene a sense of a story that extends beyond the photograph. What Remains presents light as both a physical phenomenon and a carrier of human memory, making presence perceptible within otherwise darkened landscapes.

Some Nights I Can’t Sleep

Light of Gloom over London • Can photographs of specific locations in the City of London convey a mood...