All Photos © Risaku Suzuki/ Christophe Guye Galerie.

Bidding winter farewell and welcoming spring, Risaku Suzuki‘s (*1963, Japan) first European solo exhibition, Yuki – Sakura, at the Christophe Guye Galerie in Zurich presents photographs from various series of works focusing on the enticing, emblematically Japanese subjects such as the cherry blossoms. Suzuki‘s show coincides with the Sakura Celebration, one of the most popular spring events in Japan. Like the annual festival, Suzuki’s images celebrate tradition, renewal, and the inevitable passage of time from one season to the next. To see more of Suzuki‘s work click here.

- courtesy of Christophe Guye Galerie.

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All photos © Matt Sartain. Above: Levitation.

California based photographer Matt Sartain concepts, shoots, retouches and often styles his own work which is influenced by his love of storytelling.  He has been published in The New York Times Magazine and in the pages of PDN as part of the PIX Digital Imaging contest. He lives and works in a floating home on the San Francisco bay. See how Sartain composites the image above, in the Anatomy of a Shot. To see more of Sartain’s work click here.

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All Photos © Carsten Peter/National Geographic. Above: The lava at Nyiragongo is made of an alkali-rich volcanic rock; its unusual composition may be a factor in the lava’s fluidity.

Photographer Carsten Peter descended into the fiery center of Nyiragongo—an active volcano towering over a city of one million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—for the April issue of National Geographic magazine.  See Carsten and his team explore the depths of Nyiragongo in Man vs. Volcano on the National Geographic channel. To see more of Carsten Peter’s work click here.

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All photos ©  Quang-Tuan Luong

Quang-Tuan Luong’s new book,  Spectacular Yosemite, is a journey through one of the country’s most scenic national parks.  The San Jose, CA based photographer has explored Yosemite with his large format camera over the course of the last five years, capturing the park’s geology, ecology, and natural splendor.  His book was recently published by Universe a division of Rizzoli. To see more of Luong’s work click here.

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All Photos © Renate Aller

Renate Aller has been photographing the Atlantic Ocean from a single point on the beach of eastern Long Island for over ten years. The result is a contemplative study of timelessness and the power of light. The scenes are pristine painterly images in luminous cool tones, empty of events and creatures, but still alive.

These photographs have been compiled into Oceanscapes, One View Ten Years, published by Radius Books. To see more of Aller’s work click here.

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