LIGHT & SHADOW
Month(s) 2026
Photography Exhibition
Anna-Maria Becher
Chris Myers
David Ian Bickley
Garry Platt
George Krause
Jamie Robinson
Jay Goldberg
Josh Rendell
Katherine McMahon
Linnette Birnie
Mantinieri
Marco Dominici
Mattia Case
Maxine Harraway
Miller Warren
Rachel Letchford
Rakesh P Eettisseri
Rita Long
Savana Mitchell
T. Karl Stelling
Thomas Spieckermann
Tirth Virani
Ty Saunders
Velvl-Kai Ryder
Wisdom Madunacho
Xizi Liu
Yuliana Mulvany
Anna-Maria Becher
Swiss/Germany
IG@contrastframe
"As a photographer, I am particularly dedicated to fine art and architectural photography, with a strong focus on monochrome compositions.
My work explores the graphic interplay of light and shadow and aims to capture the structural essence of spaces through high-contrast storytelling."
Chris Myers
USA
Chris Myers grew up in the American Midwest in both rural Northwestern Ohio and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan (UpNorth), near Canada and surrounded by three of the Great Lakes, is heavily forested and sparsely populated. Its landscape and people may be his greatest influence.
He has a long history with the City of Philadelphia, where he now lives, and the City continues to be a compelling muse in all of its colours.
David Ian Bickley
Ireland
www.davidianbickley.com
David’s work is a continual exploration of the liminal; the spaces between memory and myth, nature and the technological. Rooted in landscape and yet abstracted through process-led experimentation, his audiovisual installations resonate with the recurring motifs of folklore, ancient ritual, and ecological consciousness. His practice is deeply collaborative and interdisciplinary, informed by a background in sound design, electronic music, and immersive installation.
David has been working with sound and experimental music for over 40 years. This has seen him win a Hotpress award for his pioneering work in the 90’s, compose numerous atmospheric soundtracks for many notable filmmakers including Ridley Scott, and create and continue to coordinate a Soundtracks and Sound Design Course for Cork ETB.
Garry Platt
"I am an amateur photographer. I generally prefer to capture shadows and darkness. I like the stories they tell."
George Krause DBA Random Exposures Photography
"I celebrate life in all its diversity with my camera"
Jamie Robinson
"I'm Jamie, a portrait photographer based in Lancashire, used to working with many people and places."
"Quiet Strength"
A candid moment held in soft shadow — my late mother, present and unguarded. The grain and contrast lean into memory: imperfect, intimate, and true. A portrait that isn’t posed, but felt.
Jay Goldberg
In his 20s, he worked on political campaigns with the country’s preeminent strategist. In his 30s, he was a sports agent to athletes, sportscasters, Spuds MacKenzie, and brought Russian hockey players to West Point and Mississippi. In his 40s, he co-founded a creative design studio that specialized in handmade beautiful baseballs coveted by business titans and bar mitzvah boys. In his 50s, he opened a unique gallery/shop/community event space on a Greenwich Village side street that became known around the globe. Now, in his 60s, he’s working on “The Memory of America” and other multimedia art projects. Jay Goldberg lives in NYC, the city where he was born.
A graduate of NYU and New York Law School, his creative designs have been featured in retail stores, catalogs, art galleries and museums throughout the world, such as the Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Sundance, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Takashimaya, and Colette Paris.
Jay serves on the Board of Directors of The Viscardi Center — a non-profit organization that educates, employs and empowers children and adults with severe disabilities.
Josh Rendell
Josh Rendell is an artist with a passion for nature, often seen walking through the countryside admiring the birds and animals on their travels. They have chosen photography as a medium due to the ease of accessibility, there are so many creative options and different tools to experiment with. Photography is a great way of communicating creative visions with a technical mind.
“A bridge of industry”
A different view of Clifton suspension bridge, taken during renovation works.
Katherine McMahon
Katherine McMahon is an American multidisciplinary artist based in London. She was previously based in New York City and is the former Creative Director at ARTnews magazine. Her work has appeared at Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, NY), Peter Mendenhall Gallery (Pasadena, CA) and SITE:Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY). In early 2018, she participated in a solo residency at the Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton, NY.
In 2020, she mounted 'The Roast Beef is the Story,' a presentation of paintings that thematically explored the American diner in the windows of the abandoned Silver Lining Diner in New York. In 2025, she presented 'Open Late,' a solo exhibition of paintings at God's Own Junkyard neon museum in London. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, ARTNET and TimeOut New York.
“Portrait of Lonnie Holley”
Photographed in East Hampton, NY in 2020.
Linnette Birnie
British
IG@ljbirnie
A photographer whose work investigates the sculptural relationship between light and the voids it creates. Specialising in high-contrast minimalism, she focusses on uncovering the "unseen" geometries hidden within domestic and natural spaces. Her practice is a continuous search for those fleeting moments where a shadow becomes more tangible and commanding than the object itself.
“Woven Light”
The thin curtain, enveloped in a dense, protective darkness, functions as a sieve for the sun. The void of the frame pushes the eye toward the ghostly patterns of the curtain fabric, while the sun's glow spills downward to catch the corner of the bed, light and texture becoming one.
“Chiaroscuro in Blue”
Deep blue shadows consume the frame, leaving only a sharp double- slice of light to reveal the vibrant objects within. A delicate, smoky haze layers over these beams, softening the harsh edges -- merging the spectral and the tangible.
Mantinieri
Mantinieri is a fine art black and white photographer based in Cilento, a historic region in Southern Italy. Today, his work is produced almost exclusively as limited edition prints using the Carbon-Gelatine process from photographs taken with an analog camera and B&W silver film.
“Father and son”
Marco Dominici
An amateur photographer based in Rome. Preferred fields of work: Minimal, Urban, Architecture, and Street Photography.
“Watch me and dream”
"Looking for our own shadow"
Mattia Case
"I am a photographer in my final year of university in the United States. I am from Buffalo, NY and I have been shooting for around four years now. I am a primarily film shooter but shoot in digital as well. The first four images are film scans and the last is a digital image"
Maxine Harraway
"I began my artistic journey in my forties, when I gained an art degree at Sir John Cass, (now London Metropolitan University) in London. Initially I concentrated purely on photography and exhibited my work with a group of female artists in London and Colchester. I now combine my photography with abstract painting and drawing and have exhibited with fellow artists and photographers in Bath and Bradford on Avon. I have sold a number of pieces in the process. My photography has always been an eclectic mix varying from documentary to fine art, I like to experiment with layers, angles and lighting to create photos that draw the viewer in so as to encourage them to question the image."
"The Circle"
This photo is from a series titled 'shadows', it is of a circle of white card and was taken in direct sunlight to create shadows that provide the allusion of depth, making the image seems something other than it is. I then added a silver tone image to give the image more style.
"Arrow"
This photo is from a series titled 'shadows', it is of a folded piece of white card and was taken in direct sunlight to create shadows that provide the allusion of depth, making the image seems something other than it is. I then added a silver tone image to give the image more style.
"Flag"
This photo is from a series titled 'shadows', it is of a folded piece of white card and was taken in direct sunlight to create shadows that provide the allusion of depth, making the image seems something other than it is. I then added a silver tone image to give the image more style.
Miller Warren
"I started photography in 2014 before i took a long break and this is from some of the first few photos from 2014 when i took a walk down a common road i've taken walks down before"
“Walk to the Sea”
Rachel Letchford
Rachel Letchford is a UK-based artist working primarily with photography, printed material & objects.
“Untitled 3 (from Carriers), 2026”
Carriers 2026. My photographic practice is multifaceted, moving between landscapes, architectural details, and abstraction. The work is shaped by an intuitive and responsive way of looking, attentive to surface, texture, and atmosphere, allowing images to be felt as much as seen. I’m interested in how light and shadow operate not only as visual conditions, but as carriers of mood, memory, and interior states. Photography functions for me as a form of self-expression. Guided more by instinct than strategy, the work is informed by the experience of carrying the world in my body. Meaning emerges through the relationships between images—through proximity, rhythm, and resonance.
Rakesh P Eettisseri
Post graduate in Mechanical engineering and engineer by profession but photography is my passion
“A Reflection Without a Head”
Rita Long
British
Rita is a Fine Art Photographer and she explores the idea of the ordinary .
““I am beautiful””
Taken in France, screen in front of building work, low light and the sun makes art
Savana Mitchell
British
IG@CreativeFeminista
I was interested in how light increases contrast in objects and highlights the texture as well as what this means for still life such as plants or how light can influence thoughts and feelings around objects.
"Discarded light"
I was interested in this discarded microwave as a metaphor for light, pleasure and joy and how it may have once been used by many to facilitate meals and provide pleasure.
"Beneath the light"
Amongst the shadows of these wooden piles and decaying leaves you could expect to find an assortment bugs hiding from the light and thriving in the shadows. The absence of light can set off a fear response in people but it is interesting that there can be life in darkness to.
T. Karl Stelling
Germany
www.stelling-photo.com
T. Karl Stelling was born in 1965 in northern Germany and spent some time in the UK. He is especially interested in landscape photography.
For some reason T. Karl decided to become an architect, yet in his spare time he loves to explore his home region with his camera, a moorland near Gnarrenburg, between Bremen and Hamburg. Of course, he also likes to take photos when travelling.
"Moorland"
"Jetty"
Thomas Spieckermann
Liechtenstein
www.thomasspieckermann.com
Thomas Spieckermann works in the arts for more than thirty years. He is a photographer, author and artistic director of theatre. He lives and works in the Principality of Liechtenstein and in Germany.
The photos are part of a series called „66°N - The melting ice of the High Arctic“ that I completed recently.
In my project, which I photographed during several trips to the northern polar regions beyond the Arctic Circle, I want to show this special and inaccessible world of ice, which is rapidly turning into a world of water due to climate change. I focus on photos that show the metamorphosis that the millennia-old ice undergoes until it reaches the waters of the oceans. The photos were taken in Greenland, either from helicopters or airplanes, during glacier expeditions on the inland ice sheet or from the water in Zodiacs.
The Greenland ice sheet is the largest contiguous inland ice mass in the northern hemisphere. In recent decades, the average air temperature in the Arctic has risen about twice as fast as the global average temperature. More than 250 billion tons of ice are lost every year. And the heat records are further accelerating the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Streams, rivers and lakes (supraglacial lakes) form from meltwater on the ice surface. These partially dam up the water and reduce the reflectivity of the ice until a natural outlet opens and the water flows down under the glacier. Within a few hours, the surface of the ice sheet can change dramatically, with lakes and riverbeds drying up and other lakes and channels forming and filling again with water. Under the glacier, however, the draining water reduces the ice's contact with the ground, accelerating the glacier's flow towards the coast. This means accelerated calving of glacier fronts into the ocean, resulting in greater mass loss of ice.
Formally, I wanted to depict the world of white ice and blue water in a black-and-white aesthetic, as if one were watching a silent movie from a bygone era, a world without sound, without words, which cannot verbalise itself.
Tirth Virani
India
IG@tirthvirani16
Amateur photographer using just an IPhone and some smart editing
“Chasing the Sunrise”
As the first rays of the sun peek past the mighty Atlas mountains, colourful balloons take to the sky, rising above the low clouds and chasing the sunrise above Marrakech
Ty Saunders
Ty Saunders, known as the Moving Shadow Catcher who explores Native America, South America. Revealing several of the world's largest iconic hidden legends and native monuments and their mysteries captured on film.
Guided not by maps, but by spiritual intuition and sacred traditions. Most of his photography is not held by geography but in spirit, capturing the lost legends, hidden mysteries, images or markings are conversations between the visible and the invisible in his work.
What the lens sees shedding light on the unseen revealed by the ancient inhabitants. Each image is more than a picture; they are a vessel from the past, a unique spiritual story.
“Ghost Chief”
Velvl-Kai Ryder
Ukraine/New Zealand/USA
IG@zcos4_
Born in Ukraine, raised in New Zealand, and currently based out of Dallas, Texas, Vel is a self-taught photographer, qualified radio engineer, and an all-round jack of all trades when it comes to creative craft. From collecting and using vintage TLR cameras, to spinning his own yarn for his crochet creations, Vel is always on the lookout for new and fascinating things to add to his mind palace.
"Rainy Days in Auckland"
"MC Escher in Water"
"Up and Up"
Wisdom Madunacho
Nigerian/UK
IG@wiseart943
wisdommadunacho.pixieset.com
Madunacho Onyedikachi Wisdom is a Nigerian artist based in the United Kingdom. He studied Surveying and Geo-Informatics but has always been deeply connected to his Igbo roots.
His art is inspired by the values, symbols, and traditions he grew up with. Through his work, he tells stories that celebrate and preserve his culture, keeping it alive in today’s fast-changing world.
When he isn’t creating art, Madunacho enjoys playing musical instruments, which also helps him express rhythm, emotion, and a sense of heritage.
“Umu Ada 1”
In Igbo society, the girl child is a symbol of presence, continuity, and authority. These images honour Ụmụ Ada, the daughters of the land, whose strength shapes family, memory, and moral order. Adorned with coral beads, she represents lineage, honour, and responsibility. Her calm and firm posture reflects self-awareness and quiet power, carrying tradition with grace. Through light and shadow, the photographs reveal the often unseen influence of Ụmụ Ada as guardians of values and community balance. More than decorative portraits, these works affirm the girl child as a vessel of heritage, wisdom, and continuity, central and enduring within Igbo life.
“Umu Ada 2”
In Igbo society, the girl child is a symbol of presence, continuity, and authority. These images honour Ụmụ Ada, the daughters of the land, whose strength shapes family, memory, and moral order. Adorned with coral beads, she represents lineage, honour, and responsibility. Her calm and firm posture reflects self-awareness and quiet power, carrying tradition with grace. Through light and shadow, the photographs reveal the often unseen influence of Ụmụ Ada as guardians of values and community balance. More than decorative portraits, these works affirm the girl child as a vessel of heritage, wisdom, and continuity, central and enduring within Igbo life.
Xizi Liu
Chinese/UK
IG@xixiicc
An artist working with themes of memory, absence, and emotional traces in everyday spaces.
Her work focuses on ordinary objects and quiet scenes as carriers of personal and collective history.
“Presence”
This image records a moment of presence — a figure resting in light within a shared public space. It serves as the starting point of a visual narrative about memory, trace, and eventual absence.
Yuliana Mulvany
"I am a self taught creative photographer based in Brighton, UK. As a recognition of my work I have been awarded an Associateship of Royal Photographic Society (ARPS) in Visual Arts. My preferred subjects are creative landscape and abstract architecture."
“Low Tide Perspective"
Improvised shadow theatre with lady and the birds.
“Fallen Sun"
Surreal seascape
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