Los Angeles-based artist Robert LeBlanc is a self-taught photographer with an aptitude for capturing non-traditional communities. From firefighters to hurricane survivors, his images of life lived on the fringes of society offer an eccentric glimpse into otherwise rarely-pictured social sp...
If infatuation could talk, Chinese photographer Ruizhe Hong has rendered its speech visible in So Close When You Look Away: a series of soft, intimate and sensual images that feel like love letters delivered inside a heart-sealed envelope.Read More
Mateo Ruiz González (b. 1989, Colombia) is a photographer and researcher based in New York. He is also the co-founder of Antics Publication, a publishing house focusing on inclusivity and the open photo...
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She opens the viewers’ eyes to things that we don’t want to or are too much in a hurry to notice. Meet Katerina Lymar, a Ukrainian photographer who with the maturity of a professional doesn’t shy away from representing topics of injustice that for some ma...
It is a fact that Albuquerque, abbreviated ABQ is the most populated city in the state of New Mexico. It is also a fact that its population reaches just above 2 million. Yet the character of the city does not let itself be defined that easily by a Google search res...
Gian Marco Sanna (b. 1993, Italy) experiments in his photography with digital and analogue techniques. His work dives into the ecological and social consciousness where myths collide with reality. Sanna follows natural landscapes at the same time discovering human intervention in...
Since the Berlin conference in 1884, Congo has been at the forefront of globalization. The advent of the country as the leading exporter of cobalt (a key ore in the construction of smartphones) is the ...
In the work of Flemish photographer Wanda Tuerlinckx (b.1969, Belgium) the world of science and art collide, resulting in fascinating images that question today’s technologically advanced society and the ever-evolving relationship between humans and machines. In ...
Fascinated by scientific and pseudoscientific theories, Weronika Gęsicka’s (b. 1984, Poland) projects explore mnemonics and various mechanisms concerning human memory and veracity. Fundamental to her practice is archival material, which she sources from the internet: old press...
In 2015, French artist and collector Thomas Sauvin (b. 1983) acquired an exercise book, produced by an unknown photography student from Shanghai University in the early 1980s, which he rescued from a recycling plant in the outskirts of Beijing for about 18 euros. The book, which comprises ...
The cult of technology takes center stage in Anabela Pinto’s photographic series Precious Things, as she explores mankind’s precarious relationship with the devices tha...
English photographer Tom Butler (b. 1979) contorts his body, holding elegant poses that show only the top of his head. “The work reads like a contemporary dance piece; Butler’s body casting shapes that confuse and intrigue — his bald head the small, ever-present reminder th...
GUP Magazine is media-partnering with Belfast Photo Festival this year. For the occasion, to underline our mutual interest in addressing global issues by way of photography and to make these works available to a wider audience, we have been given the opportunity to select and hi...
‘Whistling in the Dark’ by the artist Dawn Kim (b. 1989, South Korea) presents a growing collection of black and white photographs taken at various locations across the United States and abroad — bound...
Bebe Blanco Agterberg (b. 1995) explores the murky waters of historical truth through the lens of post-Francoist Spain, and the far-reaching implications of the Pact of Forgetting (Pacto del Olvido), a political decision brought about by both Leftist and Rig...
Every year, artist Yichen Zhou (b. 1986, China) returns to the expansive plains of her birthplace of Inner Mongolia. There, she creates surreal images — usually depicting herself, performing a series of acts ranging f...
Deep in a valley of the Kusmer Highlands, in the Black Sea region of Turkey, lies the village and ancestral homeland of photographer Cansu Yıldıran: Çaykara. Tradition decrees that the women of this village may not own the homes or the land that they live in —...
“Let your backbone flip but don’t slip a disc, let your spine unwind, just take a risk.” This excerpt from the Beastie Boys song Body Movin’ very much applies to the artistic work of Isabelle Wenzel (b. 1982, Germany), whose career is defined by an extensive, and remarka...
Joana Choumali (b. 1974, Ivory Coast) expresses her artistic vision through photography and mixed media, touching on issues of identity and notions of beauty in relation to the body. Much of her practice focuses on Africa and derives from her own experience as a black African woman....
The works of Belgian photographer Thomas Vandenberghe (1985) can come across as vaguely familiar – like a whistled melody one can’...
Vincent Delbrouck (b. 1975, Belgium), also known as “V.D.”, spent of a lot of time in Havana as a photographer at the end of the 1990s. Then he left Cuba for years. When he returned, in 2014, he didn’t want to make a documentary about the pe...
In this project, Brazilian-born, Melbourne-based photographic artist Cecilia Sordi Campos (b. 1989) considers the parallels between her migration to Australia and her separation from her partner of ten years, and how this has impacted the life she’s living. Tem Bigato Nessa Go...
By experimenting with alternative photographic processes as well as using drawing and on-site rock rubbings, Silvia De Giorgi (b. 1992, Italy) aims to reveal experiential knowledge of the natural environment that encompasses both its physical and social past. She is drawn to sit...
Pariacaca is the name of an “apu”, a divinity embodied in a mountain in the Peruvian Andes, located between Lima and Junin. The importance of Pariacaca in Andean spirituality predates the process of Spanish colonisation in the 16th century when local religions and belief systems we...
‘Searching for Utopia’ by Gerardo Vizmanos (b. 1975, Spain) arises from an understanding that utopia itself might not exist yet we can still imagine that another reality from t...
For her ongoing project SHIFTERS, Marta Bogdańska – a visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and cultural manager based in Poland – took on a challenge: presenting a history from the perspective of animals.
Throughout her work, Jillian Freyer (b. 1989, US) uses female bodies to explore the experience of touch, and of emotional and physical endurance. Witnessed events and staged performances serve as a way to seek new intimacies between herself and her subjects. Physical sensations ...
Délio Jasse (b. 1980, Angola) is known for applying analogue techniques (painting, slide projection) to vernacular images (found passport photos, family albums) that reference the colonial history of Europe and deeply connect with diasporic issues. These appropriations and crea...
Lucia Sekerková Bláhová (b. 1991, Slovakia) photographed the “vrăjitoare”, or witches, of Romania’s Wallachian Roma community. She collaborated with ethnologist Ivana Šusterová, an expert in the everyday life and culture of the Roma community. Together, they document...
Michal Chelbin (b. 1974, Israel) spent three years traveling around Ukraine, documenting life inside the country’s military boarding schools. Her pictures are populated by young boys dressed in immaculate regimental uniforms and official military attire, and young girls wearin...
Valery Poshtarov (b. 1986, Bulgaria) has created black and white portraits of monks* from different monasteries in Bulgaria. These portraits are presented as diptychs, with each priest juxtaposed with his rosary. Within the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, this string of beads is typi...
The work of Elena Helfrecht (b. 1992, Germany) revolves around inner space and the phenomena of consciousness, emerging from an autobiographical context and expanding into the surreal and the fantastic – and even, at times, the grotesque. Helfrecht grew up in the Bavarian coun...
Bart Koetsier (b. 1975), a Dutch portrait and documentary photographer based in Paris, loves wandering the streets, to just go out for a stroll – or what in French could be described as a ‘dérive’:Read More
Ulrich Lebeuf (b. 1972, France) has covered every ‘act’ of the Gilets Jaunes protests since November 2018 – as a photojournalist. With KHAOS, he approaches this period of unprecedented social struggle with a renewed eye; far removed from more conventional ways of visualisi...
In 2015, the French artist Elsa Leydier (b. 1988) moved to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and started exploring Brazilian and other South American societies. Through her work, the artist invites the audience to question the dominant ways in which photography is exploited to represent t...
The work of Antigone Kourakou (b. 1979, Greece) discreetly leads us to the threshold of a quite unanticipated, silent introspection. By stirring up deep-rooted images and moments, her photography prompts the viewer to fill in the blanks. These elliptical scenes and oblique perso...
For Igor Pjörrt (b. 1996, Portugal), who developed a fascination for astronomy in his late teens, Betelgeuse – a red supergiant star in the Orion constellation that is nearing its death – serves as a metaphor for the fragility of a queer relationship. More specifically, he draws parallels be...
The works of Egor Fedosov (b. 2000, Russia), produced by using digital photography and post-processing techniques, are not just photography. His rather mysterious, high-contrast ‘rephotographs’ are reminiscent of the photocopied quality of ‘zines’ and are made according ...
Every now and then, Jasmine Clarke (b. 1995, USA) has a jamais vu, the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognises in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems novel and unfamiliar. This is known to be a common experi...
Philip J. Brittan (b. 1973, United Kingdom) has created a series of images based on long night walks. These images are as much about feelings experienced – the sense of a vanished world – as the representation of certain places.
Ghosts Are Real was created during a diff...
In ‘See You at Home’ the Pennsylvania based photographer and musician Vikesh Kapoor (b. 1985) explores the latent sense of loss from one’s heritage, while ageing as an immigrant in a non-native culture. It is a personal narrative, centered around family hi...
For as long as she can remember, the Peruvian photographer Sharon Castellanos (b. 1989) was intrigued by the medium of photography. It started by collecting pictures, which her father – a radio operator on a merchant ship – to...
The work of Loulou d’Aki (b. 1978, Sweden) evolves around the ideas of freedom, and how human beings are conditioned by social structures. Her long-term photographic project, ‘They call us dreamers, but we’re the once who don’t sleep’, results from...
Farroupilha is the third part of the Rastros, Tracos e Vestigios (Trails, Traces and Remains) project, in which the São Paulo based photographer André Penteado (b. 1970) reflects on the formation of Brazilian subjectivity by means of a visual investigation of ...
In his series, ‘Izambulo zabantwana Benkholo’, which can be translated to “Revolutions from the children of God”, Johannesburg based director and photographer Anthony Bila (b.1986) explores how young people in South Africa navigat...
It is somehow complex to translate “Abaixa que é tiro”, the title of the latest series of Camila Falcão (b. 1977, Brazil). It is a reference to the reactions of the portrayed and their friends, who started commenting ‘Abaixa que é tiro!&...
Sandra Mickiewicz (b. 1992) is a Polish documentary photographer who lives and works in North London. In 2007, her family immigrated to the United Kingdom. Passionate with people and their stories, Mickiewicz traces various communities and by gaining their trust...
In ‘Maternal Sheet’, Lindley Warren Mickunas (b.1988, the USA) is reflecting on the complexity of parent-child relationships and the conceptual weight of carrying the past.
Her photographs function as re-enactments based on Warren Mickunas’ familial history performed...
Visual artist Nico Krijno (b. 1981, South Africa) is based outside of Cape Town, living on a rural farm where both his studio and house are located. With his wife and two daughters away, Krijno started to work on this series of ‘lockdown’ collages in acute seclusion. The resu...
Leonard Suryajaya (b. 1988, Indonesia) is a multi-media artist who recently won the First Place in the CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Award. In his award-winning project ‘False Idol’, he ...
In his latest series ‘Spleen’ Santolo Felaco (b. 1984, Italy) explores the notion of melancholy by investigating the society’s current state of mind, posing underlying existential questions about the era we now live in.
Felaco was originally inspired by the French po...
In ‘Pale Blue Dress’, Brandon Tauszik (b. 1986, the USA) documents the world of Civil War Re-enactments in northern and central California. The images provide an intimate look into these complex spaces, emboldening participants to brandish the Southern cause while convenient...
In autumn 2017, Rebecca Moseman (b. 1975, United States) was given the opportunity to photograph a closed Irish community, one that still maintains a culture and traditions whose origins are lost in time. These so-called Travellers are a proud and reclusive people, who split off from set...
Giulia Parlato (b.1993, Italy) is an artist based in London and Palermo. She focuses on staged photography connected to themes of history, myths and object-hood. In her work, she examines and challenges the medium’s preconceived ability to document truth, especially in the scie...
Sam Gregg (b.1990, the UK) spent many years abroad – up to the point he almost forgot what it means to be British. His ongoing project ‘Blighty’ is a search for Gregg’s heritage in the streets of London. The title is a slang term deriving from the Urdu word vilāyatī, me...
Even though his passport says he is Irish, photographer Shane Lynam (b. 1980) seems to have a deep connection with France. His project Fifty High Seasons is focused entirely on the development of the Languedoc-Roussillon coastal region in southern France, known as the “Miss...
Maria Mavropoulou (b. 1989, Greece) completed her studies (MFA) at the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2018. ‘Inner State’ is a series of photographs she created as a student, between 2014-2016, documenting the atmosphere of crisis in Greece.
Lost in grey and tranquilli...
Thaddé Comar (b.1993, France) is a Paris and Lausanne based photographer juggling between commissions, editorials and personal projects. ‘How was your dream?’ is his latest documentary series portraying the recent Hong Kong protests, realised between June and October 2019....
Bryan Schutmaat (b. 1983, the USA) is a Texan documentary photographer who generally sets his work in remote places – dealing with ordinary working people, the land and aspects of rural life. In his ongoing series ‘Vessels’, he photographically explores the American Sou...
Cristiano Volk (b. 1987, Italy) photographically explores the concept of melancholia, an enduring feeling of great sadness or even a form of extreme depression. ‘Mélaina Cholé’ presents a metaphorical visualisation of how melancholy – a phenomenon that according to recent...
Artist duo Jean-Marc Caimi (b. 1966, France) and Valentina Piccinni (b. 1982, Italy) came to a creative approach to document the rather extraordinary and unprecedented celebration of Ramadan, the Islamic holy feast, in 2020. For ‘Lockdown Ramadan’ they made s...
‘HOAX’ by Agnieszka Sejud (b. 1991, Poland) is a story of Poland’s self-delusion. Sejud sheds light on a country where European political standards are considered radical and the mere idea of separating church from the state immediately creates unrest and turmoil. To highlight the occurrenc...
Ignacio Coló (b. 1980, Argentina) has a background in photography history and filmmaking and he is currently working for a major Argentinian newspaper Sunday Magazine of La Nacion. For ‘At the Same Time’, his latest photography project, he documented the life of the 51-year-...
Alexey Vasilyev (b.1985, Russia) provides an insider and honest perspective on his homeland. In his ongoing series ‘My Dear Yakutia’, he portrays the way people live in the largest region of Russia throughout the year. Being a local himself, Vasilyev manages to capture the el...
In ‘appa and other animals’, Madhavan Palanisamy (b. 1975, India) introduces his dad as the main source of inspiration. Last year, his father suffered from a partial stroke that, unfortunately, made him immobile. “Even after my father lost his eyesight, he continued seeing ...
Myriam Boulos (b.1992, Lebanon) came to world right after the Lebanese Civil War. The country was fragmented and required urgent transformation. At the age of 16, Boulos started capturing Beirut to critically reflect on the city, its people, and her place among them. She uses the...
Michael Swann (b. 1990, the UK) is currently completing his MA in Photography at the University of West of England (UWE Bristol). For, ‘Noema’, his latest body of work, he investigates the search for the presence of the Virgin Mary. Specifically, in two locations in which she...
In his project ‘Cosmic Sadness’ Andrejs Strokins (b. 1984, Latvia) offers novel perspectives on street photography by capturing his surroundings with a phone while using blue, desaturated and grainy filters – aimed to evoke the ‘blues’ as experienced in the current ‘digital’ generat...
Israel Ariño (b. 1974, Catalonia) tests the limits of what is representable. His two books ‘La gravetat del lloc’ (2017) and ‘Voyage en pays du clermontois’ (2019) might be visually distinct from one another but both focus on a similar interest: subjecti...
Laura Koolen (b.1995, the Netherlands) is a Dutch photographer who uses staged photography to challenge social taboos and delve into human frailty. In her graduation project ‘Perfection’, she explores the unrealistic ideal of beauty in society driven by perfection.
The...
The project On the Resistance of Bodies by José Luis Cuevas (b. 1973, Mexico) collects material that signifies violence and the vulnerability of the human body, such as photographs of crime scenes, (nude) portraits, morgue images and car accidents. Shot in Mexico City, the series represe...
Fatma Fahmy (b. 1991), an Egyptian documentary photographer, currently living in Cairo, has been selected as the first winner of the Daniele Tamagni Grant. The grant aims to encourage young photographers from t...
Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959, The Netherlands) is well-recognised for portraying specific social groups, such as mothers, adolescents, teenagers and soldiers. The key theme of her work – both still photography and video – is vulnerability, which she extracts from her subjects...
At the age of twenty-five, Alba Zari (b.1987) found out that she and her brother don’t share the genes of their Thai father. This sparked a search for her biological roots, the only clue being a name written on a business card. When nothing came up, she decided to apply her pho...
Traditional understandings tell us that when you’re born part of your identity is already set, especially in relationship to gender. In western heteronormative traditions, generally, boys are made to believe they can achieve anything, provided they’re tough. Impossible as it is to shoot the ...
For Loïc Seguin (b. 1970, France), the way to deal with mourning was to establish direct connections with people around him. He finds these people in Belleville, a multi-ethnic and vibrant Parisian neighbourhood where he approaches locals from all walks of life – around t...
Guy Bourdin (1928 – 1991) is internationally recognized for his provocative and convention resisting images. This May, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography in Moscow will present Bourdin’s retrospective exhibition which will feature more than fifty of the artist’s mo...
Each day in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, a group of 3000 masked shoe shiners flood the streets. They disguise themselves in order to avoid recognition and discrimination, as their job is looked down upon by society. The photobook Shine Heroes is the result of a three-year collaboration between...
Over.State is the first photographic project from Ilias Georgiadis (1990, Greece). It is a personal story of a young and lost person who is searching for freedom and love – an effort to explain the human condition of expressing intimacy, closeness and freedom.
Georgiadis describes ph...
In his art practice, Piotr Zbierski (b. 1987, Poland) touches on the meta-kinship between people who do not necessarily share the same culture or the same beliefs. For his recent project Echoes Shades (soon to become a book) he spotlights people living close to nature and communi...
Masha Svyatogor (b. 1989, Belarus), a visual artist currently based in Minsk, primarily works with the medium of photography. The title of her series ‘Everybody Dance!’ is a reference to a phrase exclaimed in the Soviet comedy film ‘Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future’, ...
Benjamin Kis (1986, Germany) started out as an autodidact, self-trained artist, followed by obtaining a Bachelor of the Arts in Munich. His main focus is on documentary photography and portraits, and he is often drawn to stories that are not widely accessible.
One of these...
Vivian Keulards (b. 1970, the Netherlands) breaks her silence around the addiction and death of her brother Hans, who was only thirty-eight years of age when he died in a hotel room in Berlin. His sudden cardiac arrest was caused by drug abuse. To Hans presents a personal story w...
Until 11 March 2020, Foam Museum Amsterdam presents Adorned – The Fashionable Show. Although the title might suggest so, the show is not purely centred around the concepts of fashion or what we wear. Rather, the main focus is on the notions of culture and identity, which continue to evolve ...
For Insidia, a personal project, Guatemala-born photographer Juan Brenner revisits his past after 10 years of sobriety. It altogether reflects on his years of addiction to drugs, night of wandering and the according chaos – and all the absurdities such a state of being brings...
From November 22, 2019 to February 16, 2020 the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is showing the work of five series from Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorter (b. 1986, Belgium). This constitutes the most comprehensive solo exhibition of the photographer to date.
Across these five different pr...
In the series Sole Harlem, Louise Amelie (Germany, 1991) and Aljaz Fuis (Germany) show the neighborhood of Harlem – only and purely Harlem. The series is the result of a year of living in and walking around this New York neighborhood. Everythin...
Jurre Rompa (The Netherlands, 1990) grew up in Amsterdam and is specialized in portrait and documentary photography. Here he worked for a dutch film distributor and then moved to the island of Zanzibar for six months where he started his career as a photographer. He started his ...
It has become extremely difficult to protect the Dutch landscape since pieces of land are claimed by multiple parties at once, while there is only limited space in the small country. In the battle for this limited space, the economically weak are given the least priority.
For The Collectiv...
“I feel a strange sense of melancholy when I look at my photographs. As if they represent moments that I did not necessarily experience, distant moments, which generate contrasting emotions, oscillating between my present and my past.” Marta Blue (b. 1985, Italy) specialises ...
Living in uncertain times ignites the desire in humans to resist or to revolt. In Except the Clouds, Berangère Fromont (France) brings us to a philosophical contemplation of chaos, enhancing the notion of resistance present in each of us.
Athen...
Over the last couple decades, we have become more and more interested in – if not to say obsessed with – extraterrestrial life. However: never have we had any proof, no signs of life beyond our own planet. What if they are in nothing similar to what we imagined? Carl Sagan, for example, g...
On the first day of August 2019, 12.5 billion tonnes of ice melted in Greenland, which is reshaping the largest island we have on Earth. In the series Siellä missä jää sulaa (literally translated: Where the ice melts) the Finnish photographer and filmmaker Heidi Piiroinen ta...
In the series Something is Pushing, Igor Pisuk (b. 1984, Poland) shows a collection of black-and-white photographs, as well as vibrant colour portraits and close-ups. The photographs in this collection are truthful and raw, and they show both the beautiful and darker sides of spe...
For the past six years, Ulla Deventer (b. 1984, Germany) has been doing long-term research on female sex-workers in Europe, specifically in Brussels, Athens and Paris, and since 2017 in Accra, Ghana. In her work, which is best described as visual storytelling with a strong focus ...
Irene Fenara (b. 1990, Bologna, Italy) is an artist who pushes the boundaries of photography. For example, she has been working with found material and creating images with scanners. More recently, she has been researching footage sourced from surveillance cameras. She has been u...
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In the series Petőfi’s Corpse, Hungarian photographer Tomoya Imamura (b. 1991, Germany) shows the Hungarian present, where a post-socialist reality nourishes a new form of nationalism. The name of the project comes from the story of Sándor Petőfi, the national poet of the Hungar...
Monchegorsk is a so-called monotown: a place where the local economy and life on the whole rely on a single or a small number of related industries. Apparently, the post-Soviet space is home to about three hundred monotowns. The question of the purpose of such towns bothered photographer Vale...
In this work, Will Harris (b. 1990, United States) confronts the complexities of his grandmother Evelyn Beckett’s dementia. By juxtaposing images of his childhood’s house with photographs that show the erased faces of his granny at different stages of her life, he restores the pi...
Stefania Orfanidou‘s (b. 1989, Greece) connection to Italy started 12 years before she was born. Her parents met in the Italian city of L’Aquila and fell in love. So, Orfanidou grew up absorbing a lot of their romantic stories related to the region and one day even visited the plac...
Barrio Chino, Habana is an ongoing photographic project by Sean Alexander Geraghty (b. 1987, France) in which he aims to document the remaining fragments of the once largest and most glorious Chinatown in Latin America. However, when you dig deeper, you realise that the story of its orig...
During one of the travels around her home country, photographer Karol Palka (b. 1991, Poland) met an uncommon family: a 65-year-old mother called Danusia and her 35-year-old daughter Basia. The two women lived together, isolated from the outside world, in a house kilometers away from the...
During the making of Nothing New Under the Sun, photographer Eva Donckers (b. 1991, Belgium) travelled for one month around the desert of Utah and New Mexico in the United States. This experience allowed her to meet many individuals with fascinating spiritual experiences who lived on the...
Santolo Felaco (b. 1984, Italy) is a photographer who loves his own country. His latest series, which also became a book, Caput Mundi, is telling a story of the Eternal City of Rome. Every photograph of the project breathes rebellion against the rules of the spiritual and poli...
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The beautiful light in the American state of Texas...
Petra Katanic (b. 1984) was born and grew up in Serbia. The violence of the Yugoslav Wars was inescapable at the time, and she was also being abused in her own home. The only way out was to disappear inside herself, and to fantasise about a different and more peaceful environment; a place...
Kathrin Mundwiler (b. 1984, Switzerland) started her project Helvetia after having been away from her homeland for years. Now living in the Netherlands, far away from her family and roots, she began looking at Switzerland from a distance. This is when she noticed the typical Swiss hedgeho...
Photographer Cristiano Volk (1987, Italy) used flash and harsh light, imitating ...
The suggested movements in the photographic work of Luis Alberto Rodriguez...
Jonas Feige (b. 1988, Germany) has a complex relationship with his home country. His projectRead More
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In the work of Marguerite Bornhauser (b. 1989, France), incidentally encountered scenes are combined with carefully constructed compositions in such a way that we can’t know what is real and what is fictitious. Her visual language is one of intense colours, graphic shapes and h...
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Right after the end of the American Civil War, in 1865, one in four cowboys were African American. However, this Read More
Land of Ibeji was selected for GUP #60: Escape by Belgian photographer Carl De Keyzer
Yorubaland, a region that falls mainly within south-west Nigeria, is home to a surprising number of twins, a greater proportion than anywhere else in the world. Reactions to this phenomenon range f...
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Despite the strict Soviet rules on how one should behave in public, RussRead More
Growing up in a family of workers in the textile industry in Badalona, Spain,Read More
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“There is a place that suffocates you when you walk past it, one that has this eerie feeling lingering in the air…” – starts ...
Hiro Tanaka (b. 1955, Japan) started taking photographs by chance. After...
In Emily Graham’s (b. United Kingdom) photo...
The concept of the American Dream that portrays wealthy, healthy and most importantly, free citizens is no longer valid. One of the first photographers to delude these values and highlight the ubiqui...
Subtle humour and a bright flash: that’s how ...
Crimson rivers, verdigris abstract...
With all his large-scale projects, Carl Read More
Kazuma Obara (b. 1985, Japan) has never identified himself with his country, claiming that throughout the history of the world, his motherland has never been the innocent one. The guilt of past actions still haunts many Japanese, and Obara is no exception. However, he is one of t...
You may have heard of the famous saying by Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice (…)”. However, with her ongoing project Old Father Thames (2018-), London-based photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten (b. 1970, Germany) continuously steps in the waters of t...
Jo Ann Callis (b. 1940, United States) started her experimental photography practice long ago, but without a context you could easily mistake her early colour work for something produced more recently. In fact, the work stems from the 1970s. These images from everyday life contain a certa...
In the city parks of New York, nature thrives in the middle of the eternal action of the metropolis. Here, people retreat and relax in anonymity, and it becomes easier to be yourself. It is a haven of tranquillity during daytime, but from dusk till dawn, a different kind of people wander about, a...
Arko Datto (b. 1986, India) considers night as the time when life is at its most sincere and intense, when people are the most truthful. Fort part one of his night-time trilogy, he took the same stroll through his northern Indian neighbourhood every evening, coming across fascina...
Whether he shoots for a fashion campaign or for himself, David Brandon Geeting (b. 1989, United States) creates a pseudo-existence in a visual language familiar from glossy magazines. By cleverly placing three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional backgrounds such as found photo...
We usually preserve our memories through photographs, but photography can also serve to discover memories.
Going through the family archive, Valentin Sidorenko (b. 1995, Russia) met members of his family he had never had the occasion to meet beforehand, or whom he had know...
This online portfolio is connected to the theme of GUP #59: Pseudo, where we feature photographic projects that balance between fact and fiction.
Growing up in a small town in Louisiana, Ransom Ashley (b. 1992, United States) experienced the transition from adolescence to...
The 2016 presidential elections seem to have divided the American population in the hopeful and the scared, with conflicting feelings about the future clashing in both the private and the public sphere. What everyone appears to be agreeing on, however, is the fact that this is a new era for the U...
Gerardo Vizmanos’ (b.1975, Spain) photographic production is a rich blend of subjective emotions expressed through movement and static instants frozen in time, a juxtaposition between speed and stillness, close interaction and distance, heat and apathy. Desires, fears, love and...
Erik Gustafsson’s (b. 1987, Sweden) This is Farewell is a self-exploratory journey through the past, an autobiographical narrative which aims to deconstruct family bonds and understand how our origins affect how we develop as humans. By returning to his place o...
We can all look at the past and describe how things have changed, but to determine the meaning of today within its historical context is a rather difficult mission. Kata Geibl (b.1989, Hungary) has always been curious about our relationship with the present; in her most recent p...
A full member of the world-renowned Magnum agency since 2010, Christopher Anderson (b. 1970, Canada) is active as a documentary photographer while also making very personal work. However many-sided, Anderson’s entire body of work can be considered as one: his journalism is as personal ...
In Juliette Blightman’s (b.1980, United Kingdom) body of work, the boundaries between photography, painting, literature and performance seem to constantly blur and overlap. This makes it difficult to define through traditional labels. Her images at first appear to be connected by the pr...
It is surprising how predictable human behaviour can be when seen from a distance. Kacper Kowalski (b. 1977, Poland) first noticed the patterns that occur when man occupies a geographical space while experimenting with aerial photography as he was training as a pilot. After years of captu...
Before dedicating himself to photography, Andras Ladocsi (b. 1992, Hungary) was a professional swimmer. Until the age of 18, Ladocsi spent his day divided by school, the swimming pool and his family. The rigorous routine led him to empathise with those micro communities of people constru...
Even though Jaakko Kahilaniemi (b. 1989, Finland) grew up in a country covered by forests, his attraction toward nature came late. When at the age of 8 he inherited 100 hectares of forested land he reacted with indifference, discounting the importance of such a gift, hardly relatable to ...
In Null Hypothesis, the latest project by Jan Cieslikiewicz (b. 1979, Poland), randomness and ambiguity take center stage among depicitions of everyday events and majestic landscapes. The New York-based photographer collects pictures of the world as he sees it in a very postmodern way, u...
To be connected with everything and everyone: this is the meaning of Ubuntu, a Congolese concept borrowed by photographer Rebecca Fertinel (b. 1991, Romania) to title her latest body of work, which recently won the Dummy Award at Unseen Amsterdam 2018. The series shows a Congolese family...
Photography according to Marcel Kolacek (b. 1983, Czech Republic) has one, simple function: to break time into frozen instants and allow everyday life to be better observed, analysed, understood. Visual storytelling, however, takes much more than just a camera: Kolacek travels to remote ...
Perhaps it was moving to a megalopolis from the Japanese countryside that made Yoshinori Mizutani (b. 1987, Japan) view nature’s shapes and colors with new eyes. In HDR_nature, his latest project, leaves, flowers, tree branches and insects interact with wind and sun rays to form patter...
Concrete is the backdrop of the most recent project shot by Titia Hahne (b. 1981, The Netherlands), a collection of images shot for Sony that aims to frame the habitat of skateboarders by capturing how they interact with the surrounding environment. The city, with its functional square a...
Casper was born in 2000. His birth was documented by his father, photographer Koos Breukel (b. 1962, The Netherlands), in portraits both intimate and affectionate. This marked the beginning of a years-long documentation – a registration of a childhood, but also proof of a strong fa...
I’ll Die for You is an ongoing project by British photographer Laura El-Tantawy (b.1980), born from a personal story. The photographer’s grandfather was a farmer who worked himself to death on his own piece of land in Egypt. Inspired by this, El-Tantaw...
Most nudes we see are female, and when a male body is portrayed, it is still usually done by a male photographer. Clearly, when it comes to nude photography, the male gaze is dominant. Even though a woman’s right to visual pleasure is more and more recognised, we’re still some way from a posi...
What kind of connection exists between people and where they live? How are they influenced by places? The work of Adrian Saker reflects on the topic of identity and community and the connection between the two.
During a period of artistic depression, Saker was stimulated by his pa...
For Italian photographer Vittoria Gerardi (b. 1996), a stay in the desert landscape of California was both physically and mentally challenging. Death Valley, one of the hottest and driest places on earth, can have an intense effect on a person. Its extremes force one to reach certain lim...
Even if homosexuality is becoming more and more accepted, unfortunately there are countries where the LGBT community is still oppressed. Photographer Anton Shebetko (b.1990), born in Kyiv and based in Amsterdam, focuses on the things gay people have to endure in homophobic and conservative countr...
Maria Sturm (b. 1985) is close to finalizing her long-term documentation of teenagers from in and around Pembroke, North Carolina, where almost 90 percent of the population identifies as Native American. You Don’t Look Native to Me considers how young people from the Lumbee tr...
“When we walk along a road, we alternately recognize Images, on our screens, and Landscapes, around us” says Kenta Okamoto (b. 1989, Japan).
Thanks to always looking at our smartphones, a walk through nature is not what it used to be. According to Okamoto, the version ...
In an age in which we’re all digitally connected, real connections seem to become harder to make. Loneliness is becoming a huge health issue. In his series Solitude, Paul Lukin (b. 1980) offers an emotional and psychological portrait of lives lived alone. The photographs are as black a...
Jiu Valley in Transylvania is the pride of the Romanian mining industry, or at least it was. Once celebrated as the driving force behind the entire country and strongly industrialised during the forty-year communist regime, today it has gone from 179,000 miners to less than 10,000.
Ornella Mazzola (b. 1984), an Italian photographer from Palermo, Sicily, is an artist who focuses on an intimate and human look. Her series Females is a portrait of women in Mazzola’s family, but it’s also broader than that. What started as a personal diary, ended up being a poetic ye...
Gilleam Trapenberg (b. 1991) grew up on the Caribbean island of Curaçao with certain ideals of masculinity, while at the same time being surrounded by strong women. This duality is examined in the ongoing series Big Papi, in which Trapenberg both affirms and debunks the macho st...
Life is short, and the world is immense. Most of us have at some point experienced moments of depression, combined with a desire to just leave everything behind, only to remain trapped by the routine of daily life. Marco Argüello (b. 1985) did manage to leave, and he creat...
The ever-growing Balogun Market has no specific address because it sprawls across Lagos Island in Nigeria. Almost anything can be purchased here, at the second-largest street market in Western Africa. One particular – and ironic – aspect of its expansion is that the market has also swallowed ...
Prodigal Son is the highly autobiographical title of a series by Vladimir Kolmakov (b. 1986) documentary photographer from St.Petersburg, Russia.
After his parents’ early divorce, Kolmakov grew up with his mother and brother spending his teenage...
Paul Hennebelle (b. 1992, France) paints a picture of Beirut that is delicate and fragmented, a portrait of youth in a city in the making. In the context of this chaos, this perpetual construction site, the youth of Beirut is still searching for their own identity. They’re stuc...
Children borne of troubled families can carry the unfair burdens of shame and guilt. The fear of this personal history being exposed can estrange, the fear of rejection can cripple; experiencing loss seems to make people fear it more than anything. This is why it can be so empowering for people t...
The photographic work of Paul Cupido (b. 1972, The Netherlands) revolves around the principle of Mu: a Japanese word that could be translated as ‘does not have’, but is actually open to countless interpretations. Mu can be considered a void, albeit one with potential...
The hard land and extreme climate—combined with centuries of isolation—have shaped the people of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas into a peaceful, tempered existence. It does not pay to give in to one’s passions in these conditions; better to focus on survival and reincarnation. The culture d...
In the series Twilight Zone, Arnau Blanch (b. 1983) explores the effects of opium in dreams. His images seem to originate from the same corners of the universe where stars are made: galaxies are being born in the swirls of mysterious, cosmic matter; clouds of galactic colours both familia...
Very little is natural in the images Kyle Jeffers (b. 1998) shows us: everything here seems artificial and manufactured; the spaces we humans create are far removed from anything seen in the natural world. We paint our world in striking colours of pink, purple, and yellow, which can be f...
French-Russian photographer Anna Hahoutoff (b. 1993) tours the United States to challenge her childhood memories of America; its pop culture and mass consumption, but also its awe-inspiring nature. However, as her ongoing series Americana clearly shows, American wilderness is always expe...
Chariots of Frolic is the perfect title for Sameer Raichur’s (b. 1986) endearing series: the festive chariots seen here are fun and endearing. They are ingenious contraptions that have a wonderfully improvised quality to them: based on stock cars that have had their whole rear sections ...
Antonio Guerra (b. 1983) challenges our notion of nature, its symbolism, its meaning, and our relationship to it. Through his studies of landscapes, using installations, images within images, and by toying with perspective, he explores how our understanding of nature is produced and repro...
The series Dead Sea by Carlo Lombardi (b. 1988) centres on the endangered Carretta carretta sea turtle, showing us the main human activities that put the species at risk as well as the efforts to protect it in the Mediterranean. It is both a dispassionate and engaging look at one of the ...
What connects transhumanists is the belief that technology can improve the human condition by enhancing human intellect and physiology. Photographer David Vintiner in collaboration with art director Gem Fletcher present us a portrait of this global movement through fas...
Balint Alovits’ (b. 1987, Hungary) series Acclimate shows us a human settlement in one of the most unforgiving environments we have colonised over human history. It makes you wonder why people over a millennium ago decided to settle in Iceland — and why they still do. Human constructio...
Michele Vittori’s (b. 1980) series Una Provincia shows us a side of Italy we do not often see while at the same time being classically and recognisably Italian. The Fiat 500s and Alfa Romeos are there, but they are rusty and dilapidated. The beautiful landscapes and architecture aren’t...
The Las Vegas Strip is famous for tourists, high rollers, flashy neon signs and even flashier hotels and casinos. While the Strip made a quick recovery following the 2008 financial crisis thanks to the money forty million out-of-towners bring to it every year, an alternative reality lays parallel...
Life is funny. And unwittingly, normal people do the strangest and funniest things throughout their funny lives. Often, though, it takes a playful, childish eye to recognise that. With adults so inexplicable, the only point of view worth taking is that of a child. This is the point of view Yot...
“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph,” was Bruce Gilden’s response when prompted for a definition of street photography. Sam Gregg’s (b. 1990) series See Naples and Die reeks of the winding alleys and neighbourhood personalities ...
Antonio Privitera’s (b. 1984) images are like snapshots from childhood, where random details merge to become wonderful memories of days at the beach; of parasols and palm trees, of voices drowned out by the sea, of seeing your family in bathing suits. And those days seemed to be dominate...
Catherine Leutenegger (b. 1983, Switzerland) describes herself as a ‘photographic archaeologist’ with a fascination for technological shifts. In her long-term body of work New Artificiality, she investigates through multiple chapters the significant emergence and advancement...
In Between the Light and Darkness, Hong Kong photographer YAN Kallen (b. 1981) pays homage to the passion of traditional crafts artisans in Kyoto. Yan photographs the particular and mysterious implements of the artisans, illustrating in a way all the things we cannot begin to ex...
The Yalu and Tumen rivers form a natural border between China and North Korea. In his series A Border with a View, Albert Bonsfills (b. 1982) explores some of the border towns on the Chinese side of the rivers. On the opposite side lies North Korea, shrouded in a cloud of mystery. The co...
In the infinite flow of everything, people come and go in our lives. While the presence of some can be so subtle that we hardly register when it begins or ends, with others it’s far clearer: they enter, or leave, with a bang.
In her delicate and powerful series of black and white images,...
Marco Castelli’s (b. 1991) photographs are naïve in the most wonderful of ways. They hark back to a time when space travel was still romantic, when it was about exploring new societies and cultures, when all that was needed for a trip to the moon was a large-enough cannon; space was bot...
A great shift is underway in our means of communication. Increasingly, we are using visual, rather than verbal, language. Simultaneously, the imagery that we read is overwhelmingly moving to screens, creating a unified and flat mechanism of conveying information. In her series Surface Tension, Am...
On January 9th every year, millions of Philippine devotees crowd the streets of Manila in order to catch a glimpse of the Black Nazarene—the life-sized image of a kneeling Jesus Christ carrying the cross—as it is transferred from Quirino Grandstand to its home, Quiapo Church. The most devoted...
“I remember vividly the day Ida, my grand-aunt, didn’t remember who I was for the first time,” writes Jošt Franko (b. 1993, Slovenia). At a loss for how to cope with the situation, Franko took a roll of film out of the refrigerator, loaded his Leica and started to take p...
In his latest series Still Burning, American photographer Kevin Cooley responds to the recent La Tuna Canyon Fire, which started September 1, 2017 and went on to burn more than 7,000 acres, making it the largest wildfire in the city of Los Angeles in 50 years. Cooley writes that...
In classic street photography style, William Castellana (b. 1968) shows us the orthodox Hasidic Jewish community of New York, and how they conduct their lives out in the streets of Brooklyn. He has lived next door to the group for almost 20 years, but despite this continued proximity, he ...
Dutch photographer Henri Blommers creates a false utopia in his series of plastic objects living free amidst nature. Rich in colour, the images are sensual and draw us in with the illusion of health and vitality within the environment. Yet, all too soon, we spy the debris in th...
While documenting his travels across America, photographer Samuel Stone (b. 1992) more and more found himself missing out on important events of friends and family back home. By observing his loved ones through text messages, photos and phone calls he felt more lost than ever before. “M...
At the outskirts of Naples, Italy, in the neighbourhoods of Scampia and Secondigliano, there are the camps of Via Circumvallazione Esterna and Via Cupa Perillo. One was established in 2000 by municipal decree and one is unauthorized. The camps were intended to be temporary, housing more than a th...
The renderings of human emotions, often woven into graphic perspectives are the hallmarks of Belgian photographer Klaartje Lambrechts’s (b.1976) work. The series Rewound is based on a quote from Russian novelist Dostoyevsky: “The greatest happiness is to know the source of ...
The self-portraits of English photographer Tom Butler (b. 1979) are nearly unidentifiable. Black shapes pop out of the images, with occasional accents of a white circle or lines – which, upon closer inspection, we can identify as the top of a perfectly bald head or the crook of an elbo...
With its gleaming gold domes, ostentatious statues, as well as the Guinness Book of Records title for most white marble buildings on earth, Ashgabat (in Turkmenistan), has established itself as a showpiece capital. Spanish photographer Arnau Rovira Vidal (b. 1984) went there for work and ...
Horses, guns, Confederate flags, cowboy hats and boots: in Love Valley, North Carolina, the clichés of the American South are still alive and well. “The town itself is a dirt road off a dirt road,” says American photographer Lila Barth (b.1994), “a small Main Street and a native p...
Ethiopian photographer Dawit N.M.’s (b.1996) was inspired for this series when he took a portrait of his little cousin Fitsum, who jokingly told him, “Don’t make me look like the kids on TV”. Stunned, Dawit tried to portray the real Ethiopia, as he knows it, with friendly people a...
“Nothing makes me feel more at home than the smell of horse shit,” says Italian photographer Chiara Luxardo (b. 1986). She grew up on a farm near Milan and, as the years went by, found that she increasingly romanticised that nostalgic past. In search of her roots, she came across som...
One of the darkest pages of history for Gyumri, a city in Armenia, is the earthquake of 1988. Many of the inhabitants live in terrible conditions and are still struggling to make ends meet. In his series Still Believe, Czech photographer Martin Holík (b. 1985) documented the lives of mo...
In this era where the rise of the selfie has superceded the self-portrait, Italian photographer Cristina Coral explores what we allow or do not allow ourselves to be and what we’re willing to show and reveal to the world. In her series The Other Part of Me, we see figures of women merge...
Who would’ve thought the literal meaning of ‘paradise’ is a place surrounded by walls? Derived from the ancient Persian word Pairidaeza (pairi – around, daeza – wall), it must’ve been meant to refer to the idea of a secluded place where luxuriant flora and fa...
Franco-Tunisian photographer Wahib Chehata (b. 1968) gives ancient baroque and classical themes a modern twist. In this collection of images, we see a selection from two of his recent series, Renaissance and Resilience.
In Renaissance, Chehata creates theatric...
Deep in the arteries of the Magdalena River Estuary System of Colombia, the village of Nueva Venecia is formed of houses raised on stilts, with lives and livelihood tied to water. However, Colombian photographer Jorge Panchoaga (b. 1984) informs us, the water is polluted due to t...
Oscillating between the factual and the fictional, Italian artist Bianca Salvo’s (b. 1986) work explores the connections between beliefs and the image. For the series The Universe Makers, Salvo collected space imagery and questioned their informative function and authenticity according ...
In her series, The People’s Salon, Tamara Abdul Hadi (b. 1980, United Arab Emirates) celebrates the burgeoning creative talent of hairdressers in Beirut, Palestine, and Gaza. “It is an appreciation of their personal style and their self-expression through self-care an...
“In any part of the universe there is a whole universe”, write Spanish photographers Angel Albarrán (b.1969) and Anna P. Cabrera (b.1969), known collectively as Albarrán Cabrera.
The duo tells the story that inspired them, of the god Krishna as a young child: While ...
British photographer Guy Martin (b. 1983) interrogates the grey area between documentary and fiction in Turkey in his series Parallel State. Turkish former Prime minister Erdoğan used the term ‘parallel state’ after being convinced that he was being undermined by traitorous media, po...
All around us and within us, cells grow and die, lifeforms are born and reproduce, populations wax and wane. Our universe is comprised of chemical reactions organized in cycles of creation and decomposition.
Australian-Polish artist Renata Buziak (b. 1973) presents these...
Barbara Res, the mother of American photographer Res (b.1985), was the manager of construction on the Trump Tower and Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization for nearly 20 years. Yet, in the run-up to the 2016 elections, she opposed Trump’s campaign and took public stance aga...
Across time, ancient humans have identified certain ‘places of power’, where supposed energies emanate from the Earth and replenish us. But, what are they?
“It is difficult to define these places, and there is also no official definition,” explains German photographer Fran...
New York based photographer and/or visual artist Marco Scozzaro (b.1979, Italy) presents a multi-layered body of work in his series Digital Deli, that includes among other things photography, sculptures and video. The series envisions Scozzaro’s interpretation of the contemporary visua...
Medical hospitals are, by and large, pretty uncomfortable places. Sterile surgical supplies and medical equipment fill up bright and otherwise empty spaces. They’re functional; everything is optimized to prevent people from dying. Chinese photographer Zhang Wei photographs these clinic...
American photographer Kent Rogowski (b. 1974) is interested in the larger questions of how we and the products surrounding us communicate and deal with moments of pain and change. He therefore created the series Everything I Wish I Could Be, in which he composed and photographed self-hel...
In her series Shiny Ghost, American photographer Rachel Cox (b.1984) documents the final years of her grandmother’s life as she’s suffering from a degenerative brain disease. The elderly lady is glamorously photographed together with peculiar objects ranging from turtle shells to hai...
Chinese photographer Yu Hua (b.1963) introduces us to actors of the Wu Opera, which plays an important part of the rural residents’ life in the Jinhua area. Wu Opera is a hybrid of six singing styles from different traditional genres in China. This mixture reveals the magic of ancient ...
Following a career in journalism and television-production, Japanese photographer Miho Kajioka (b.1973) decided to go back to fine art when a series of terrible events hit japan in 2011: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster caused primarily by a tsunami, following the Tohoku earthquake...
London-based photographer Rosanna Jones (b. 1994) is peeling back the skin. Her mixed media images start with prints of her fashion photographs, which she then rips, cuts, burns and otherwise distresses to break down surfaces and boundaries of identity. She paints and processes t...
In the ongoing project Down by the Hudson, American photographer Caleb Stein (b.1994) shows a record of his walks and interactions along the Main Street of Poughkeepsie, New York, a small city where around twenty percent of the inhabitants live below the poverty line. Although Stein’s ...
Norwegian photographer Terje Abusdal (b. 1978) operates between fact and fiction in his latest series Slash and Burn, named after the ancient agricultural method of consciously cutting and burning plant-life to create new land. Abusdal focuses on the Finnish farmers i...
In his series Hornless Heritage, Dortmund-based photographer Nikita Teryoshin (b. 1986, Russian) explores the German dairy industry, which is creating turbo cows: high-performance, milk producing machines. Their horns, which should protect the cows and give them auton...
When Japanese photographer Miki Hasegawa (b. 1973) found out 350 children across her country die annually due to domestic abuse, but only 90 deaths per year are recognized by the Ministry of Health, Education and Welfare, she decided to draw attention to the overlooke...
In addition to his work as a natural scientist, Eckart Bartnik (b. 1957, Germany) has devoted himself to photography, which he approaches in the same systematic and analytical way as he examines nature. In his recent series Disenchantment, Bartnik explores the larger ...
Italian photographer Alessia Gammarota (b. 1976) illustrates the bigger picture of the housing market of London: the city faces a shortage of affordable homes while increasing numbers of properties in wealthy neighbourhoods are left empty. London, the city of business, is squeezing every s...
German photographer Ulrike Schmitz (b. 1975) combines her enigmatic photography with film stills from Russian propaganda from the Stalinist era in her latest series Museum Deiner Erinnerung (Museum of Your Memory). Her German grandparents lived in a small Ru...
Thomas Gosset (b. 1982, France) is not your ordinary photographer, as he recomposes his negatives with acid, ink and paint. Everything is done by hand, from the moment he creates the settings till he develops the prints in the darkroom. In his recent series Primitive ...
Ethnographic photographer Kyle Weeks (b. 1992, Namibia) aims to represent the African continent without the inherent power dynamics that voyeuristic photography is known for. Having a South African father and American mother, he describes how he can easily shift betwe...
For the kids who join the archaeological camps scattered around Russia every summer, it’s about more than just bones and dust. It’s about uncovering the mysteries of the past and, most of all, exploring their own inner world. Russian photographer Tanya Borodina (b...
Harit Srikhao (b. 1995, Thailand) photographs and creates collages of dark and often grotesque situations that occur during nationalist events in his home country of Thailand.
Through his manipulated and witty images, Srikhao attempts to make people aware of th...
The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message, broadcast into space in 1974 with the aim of reaching out to extraterrestrial life. The binary message was aimed at the current location of the star cluster M13, some 25,000 light years away, meaning that by the time the ...
Peace, love and paradise: Indian photographer Néha Hirve (b.1992) gives us a glimpse inside the utopia-like Sadhana Forest community in her most recent series Full Shade / Half Sun. This community replants trees to shelter the dried-out ground in India’s dying rain...
As the base for her project, Portugese photographer Inês Marinho (b. 1990) references author Milan Kundera’s breakdown of the word nostalgia, where the Greek word “nostos” translates to “the return” and “algos” means “suffering”. The word nostalgia,...
In her mixed-media series Autobiography Without Facts, Belarusian visual artist Masha Svyatogor(b.1989) reflects on the transient state between reality and illusiveness, childhood and adulthood. Based on her experience of being thrown into the real world when growing ...
French photographer Sylvie Bonnot (b. 1982) originally started in landscape photography due to her passion to wander around in the unpredictability of untamed nature. Her travels around Australia, Japan, Ireland, Norway and Russia are brought together into a photograp...
“In order to capture the essence of nature first I needed to understand and imitate it,” says artist Karla Guerrero (b. 1993, Mexico) about her project Ser Ahi (Spanish for ‘to be there’). In the project Guerrero places herself in and amidst elements of nature...
In her series Ladies Only, Mumbai-based photographer Karen Dias (b. 1987) has observed and documented an unusual sub culture that has formed in the women’s compartments of Mumbai’s local trains. Especially reserved for the female sex, women going to work and young girls going t...
Kathleen McIntyre’s (b.1962) introspective series Don’t Be Shy forms the unspoken story of her coming of age. In her youth, McIntyre explains, she was the silent observer, lost in her own thoughts. Her talkative family, by contrast, used to tell her, “Don’t be...
He calls it the Camera Oralis: a pinhole camera that allows light in through the orifice of his mouth. With it, Slovenian photographer Uroš Abram (b. 1982) creates black and white images directly on photo paper, marked and marred by imperfections o...
In his series Phos Noise, Max Slobodda (b. 1987) brings to the surface all the unknowns of the universe. Bright objects in loud colours levitate, and fluorescent white dinosaurs and pineapples hover mysteriously.
Slobodda explains the strange human quality of a...
When Dutch photographer Thirza Schaap (b.1971) moved to South Africa, she discovered her findings at the seaside weren’t organic but man-made debris. She went from treasure hunter to trash hunter. For her series Plastic Ocean, in an effort to raise awareness for the...
A space away from consumerism, capitalism and mass media… does this even exist? The Rainbow Gatherings prove there is, at least temporarily, as people congregate in remote settings around the world to live embraced by nature and kindness. The events overflow with the ideal...
In E-commerced Animals, Tomofumi Nakano (b.1978, Japan) shows us how easy it is to have dead animals delivered to your doorstep with the click of a mouse.
In a series of disturbingly bright coloured images, Nakano presents us with various butchered animals – ...
In his series Reconstruction, Kosmas Pavlidis (b. 1978, Greece) photographs a world he refers to as a “garden”. Inhabited by bones, an isolated sheepskin, a dusty pheasant, biblical iconography, a lying caryatid, and graves, it is evidently an abando...
In his series Necrofilia, Spanish photographer Toni Amengual (b. 1980) has photographed animals in a Barcelona zoo. With the unusual title, the artist cites Erich Fromm’s concept of Necrofilia, which is an idea that the controlled nature of life in modern societ...
In her introspective series Laws of Silence, Jennifer McClure (b. 1971, United States) searched for signs of meaningful relationships and missed opportunities, trying to piece together a map of how to be. “I’ve been afraid of letting go of the life I was programme...
War lets loose all the destructive forces of mankind against itself. What kind of insanity is this? As Maxim Dondyuk’s (b. 1983) project statement says: “War takes any meaning and breeds emptiness. An emptiness that burns all around leaving just ruins, s...
A woman reclines romantically, surrounded by staged, sumptuous interiors, her body mimicking the oriental beauty in the painting La Grande Odalisque, her face, covered by a big metal pot.
In her intriguing and amusing series Villa Argentina, ...
When it comes to his home country of Finland, Juuso Westerlund (b. 1975) says that the sauna may be one of the biggest clichés around. However, he’s quick to clarify, “It is also the greatest gift to the universe a nation can give.”
The sauna i...
Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink (b. 1961) captures the reservations we have about opening ourselves up to other people and about our relationship with a world in which all moments seem to quickly fade. In her series, Hesitation, Lansink’s analogue photographs of empty rooms...
‘Finisterrae’ means so much as: end of the road. That is more or less how it feels when moving around Southern Portugal or, more precisely, the region that in the ancient Roman era was known as ‘Lusitania’ – which included approximately all of moder...
In El Alto, the second-most populous city of Bolivia, there has emerged a special kind of event venue. The ornate buildings, colourful and geometric, stand out against the arid landscape and neighbouring red brick buildings. In his series Neo-andina, São Paulo-based photogr...
In his series Still Diets, Italian photographer Dan Bannino...
Have aliens invaded? Are we being shown evidence of futuristic spaceships?
Not exactly. In his series Spaceships, photographer Lars Stieger offers us a view of architectural spaces at strange angles and in isolated settings. Shown in this way, these m...
Climate change and environmental degradation are transforming Somalia, pushing people to desperate choices and violence. Somalis live – and die – depending on the amount of rain that falls each year.
Nairobi-based photographer Nichole Sobecki (b. ...
Fascinated by the larger-than-life burlesque dancer, The World Famous *BOB*, New York-based photographer Amy Touchette immersed herself into *BOB*’s world for four years. The resulting series, Shoot the Arrow, is a documentary work on her electric life, seen in grai...
Photographer Clemens Ascher (b.1983, Austria) has created a strange and slightly sinister amusement park, satirically naming the series On Pleasure Grounds. It is a fictional world where the people, guzzling synthetically coloured drinks and scarfing down junk food seem to be the spectacle...
With hand-sewn costumes and elaborate sets, Helena Blomqvist (b. 1975, Sweden) creates a fantasty world starring Florentine, a former ballerina from the 19th century. Florentine, now an aged ballerina with withered skin and grey hair, takes centre stage of ...
In her series Fault Line, New York-based photographer Sophie Barbasch captures her family in their shared experience of estrangement and divide. She metaphorizes this with a fault line, the geological splitting of the earth during an earthquake.
The s...
Bleu Glacé, as described by Paris-based artist Manon Lanjouère (b. 1993) is “a ‘scientific’ study that synthetically reconstructs the Icelandic landscape.” Lanjouère studies the volatile Nordic island to inform colour, texture and mood, to design ...
In his series, Dialogues of an Introvert, Indian photographer Sameer Tawde (b. 1978) photographs and creates montages of everyday objects in defamiliarizing ways, drawing our attention to the separation, and sometimes alienation, between the self and the outside world. For exampl...
“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago,” wrote Emil Cioran in his book Tears and Saints in 1938. “But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.” In his eponymous series, Greek photographer Ge...
As Nikon celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, Polish photographer Lukasz Palka captured the essence of Tokyo – the world’s biggest city and birthplace of Nikon – by cutting through the chaos to focus on the elements that make the city so special...
Pieter Hugo (b. 1976, South Africa) photographed the people and landscape of an extensive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. Western countries produce around 50 million tons of digital waste every year – most of which is piled in containers and ship...
Stefan Friedli (Switzerland) and Ulrik Martin Larsen (Denmark), better known as the interdisciplinary artist collective PUTPUT, explore the banality of objects and playfully turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. Through ...
The Rug’s Topography is a project that began with Rana Young (b.1983, USA) photographing her partner of six years. Young describes how, over time, they began facing an internal conflict, which pitted their individual identities against their roles in the r...
Rome, a city rich with religious and political history, has become increasingly known as a city of clichés and icons. Yet, from its party goers to nuns and everyone else in between, the city is most definitely not uniform.
In his series Here, Death Will Come Tomorrow...
In his series, Domestic Anamnesis, French photographer Adrien Blondel (b. 1986) approaches the inside of bedrooms from a new angle. Domestic Anamnesis provides a lens through which to see how memories remain alive, in the present, rather than being thoughts ...
In the spring of 2013 Istanbul’s Gezi Park was facing destruction plans which prompted protesters to occupy the park. Emine Gozde Sevim (b. 1985), currently based in New York but originally from Istanbul, was visiting her hometown to see family when the pa...
In her series Solution, Russian photographer Polina Washington (b. 1992) explores the intricate beauty in everyday objects and parts of nature. From broken mirrors to flat tires to trees and sand, Washington highlights the beauty in things we usually think of as munda...
In Mimesis, a new series from Canada-based, German-born photographer Birthe Piontek, self-exploration is the central focus. Piontek creates a fictional world of representation that mediates our relationship to reality and the way we encounter images of ourselves and o...
British-born and Japan-based photographer Jacob Burge (b. 1981) explores the collision of nature and man-made objects in his series of photo-collages, entitled Recall. In his images, Burge brings together different manmade objects such as cars and computers with piece...
In his series, Unborn Cities, American photographer Kai Caemmerer (b. 1988) explores the architectural structures and physical growth of new cities in inner-mainland China. Photographing newly-built residential buildings during the day and night, Caemmerer gives us a glimpse into...
Italian photographer Francesca Cesari (b. 1970) brings us into the intimate space of a mother lulling her child to sleep with breastmilk. Despite this gentle act being everyday and universal, it still is often considered to be private, taking place only behi...
For the past 4 years, Natalia Podgorska (Poland) has been working as a product photographer for a builders merchant. It is purely a functional (mind-numbing) office job that helps her to pay the bills. However, what began as a feeling of being a ‘hostage�...
When we convert the Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum into soundwaves, we hear a movement of energy. As charged solar particles hit the radioactive belts surrounding our planet, they get trapped and whirled about… it’s a chirping that sounds like birds.
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British photographer Beccy Strong’s portfolio Wild at Heart centres around the complexity of time and the restraints it puts on us. Between laughter and wandering eyes and between bodies of water and moss covered trees, Wild at Heart draws our attention to growth, m...
In her series Multiverse, Elizabeth Rovit (b. Greece, 1989) explores the theory of multiple universes by uncovering personal happenings in her life and the connections that follow.
The images represent diverse moments from Rovit’s existence, whe...
In her series, Young British Naturists, London-based photographer Laura Pannack highlights the beauty of nakedness – both of the body and of the natural world. She photographs young adults together and in solitude eating, laughing, smoking, playing games, and relaxi...
Mysticism lies at the heart of Mexican photographer Dolores Medel’s (b. 1982) series El Fondo De La Sombra (Spanish for the bottom of the shadow). Through her photographs she shares pieces of her family’s contradictory and complex history. Medel photographed in Los Tux...
In small, rural towns of the United States, bodyhackers are working to merge man and machine. Experimenting in home-grown labs that resemble cluttered garages and chaotic dens, they build devices to implant into their own bodies, becoming the guinea pigs of a transhuman future.
In his seri...
Trigger Trash, a term coined by the American Bureau of Land Management (BLM), refers to any items left behind as a result of target shooting. In this series, Daniel George (b. 1984, USA) photographs such artefacts as he reflects on the many issues that face.
Target shootin...
Pain and coming to terms with the past are the hallmarks of American photographer K.K. DePaul’s series Only Child. Based on her own complex relationship with her father, Only Child is comprised of collage style images based around portraits of a sombre you...
Maisie Cousins (1992, UK) creates work that is undeniably uncensored. That is, she has found an application of photography that makes her subjects overly visible. It is what could be filed under art of the ‘ridiculous sublime’: as something that is funny and uncan...
Jessica Thalmann (b. 1988, Canada) seeks to unravel the conventional relationship we have with photographic imagery and their material implications. Working with both her own images and archival materials, she prints, cuts, assembles and folds photographs in...
In Unspoken Conversations, Rania Matar (b. 1964) explores womanhood from the perspective of two important stages of life: adolescence and middle age. More specifically, she photographs mothers and daughters in quiet moments of shared company. The glances and...
Told throughout time are the stories of ordinary men and women who transcend their mortality to become myths, icons, legends – gods who walk the earth. But what is it that elevates one individual above the rest? How does a human of flesh and blood transform into an idea?...
In his recent series Traces & Silences, American photographer Andy Egelhoff (b. 1989) captures the heart of the dance music network around the world. Egelhoff took documentary photographs at after-parties, artists’ creative spaces and DIY venues in twelve countrie...
What does it mean to be a young woman today? In her series Group Chat, American photographer Gabby Jones (b. 1994) begins to broach this salient question. As Jones explains, “Group Chat proudly displays the beautiful complexity of what it means to be a you...
Germany-based photographer Snezhana von Büdingen (b. 1983, Russia) pairs images of Soviet appartment buildings with portraits of their inhabitants. Named after the then first secretary of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchevkas are buildings that...
American artist M. Apparition experiments with paper and processes in her series Nest (Memory), a range of images that depict memories – both warm and painful.
Apparition works with chromogenic paper, stripping down the surfaces to reveal some of th...
Chinese photographer Zhou Pinglang (b. 1988) captures a city and its inhabitants on the verge of an uncertain future. Shuangyashan, meaning Double Duck Mountain, is a city in Northeast China which used to be a prosperous mining city. “One black face fe...
At the age of 18, David Uzochukwu (b.1998, Austria) has established his portfolio with a mix of editorial, commercial and personal work. Most recently, the Brussels-based photographer worked closely with the musician Benjamin Clementine.
Regardless of...
In his series “Losing” Amos, 19 year old Nigerian photographer Adeolu Osibodu pays homage to his recently deceased grandfather in a series of self-portraits, in which he poses in his grandfather’s attire amidst the landscape.
The series is comprised of three shots each of four...
In his series Manila Gothic, Filipino artist Lawrence Sumulong (b. 1987) presents an interpretative documentation of the current state of Philippine President Duterte’s war on drugs and the trauma left in its wake. While the war has been brutal, Sumulong s...
The Phlegraean Fields, west of Naples in Italy, are defined by their relationship to volcanic threat. Comprised of a 13 kilometer-wide cauldron-like depression with 24 craters, the fields have constant eruptive activity of gas or mud, with earthquakes and bradyseisms. Phl...
Maria Pleshkova (b. 1986, Russia) faces her own personal growth in this series of black and white self-portraits, Metamorphosis. While some animals experience clear and visible transformations, like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, as humans we experience metamorphoses...
During his studies in London, Shi Yangkun (b. 1991) visited his hometown in Shangshui county in China to find that urbanisation, in only a short period of time, had changed the place tremendously. He started to feel homesick for the town he used to know, and also real...
Igor Posner, Devin Yalkin, Samuele Pellecchia, and Francesco Merlini are all members of Prospekt, an agency based in Italy for which they all individually establish projects that are documentary in style and...
In his series The Gleaners, American photographer Matt Hamon documents a small group of primitive skills practitioners who attend the annual buffalo hunt on the perimeter of Yellowstone National Park in Montana.
Hamon’s images capture the process in...
London-based photographer Derek Man (b. Hong Kong) explores his adopted country of the UK, specifically the Isle of Wight, with his images questioning the appreciation of home and cultural identity.
Anthropologist Judith Okely notes: “The Isle of Wight, thoug...
The Mosuo, often referred to as Dabu, are a Chinese ethnic minority of around 40,000 people that enjoyed hundreds of years of relative stability in a complex matriarchal structure that values female power and decision-making. The Berlin-based photographer Karolin Kl
Highly secretive and shrouded in mystery, pagan communities continue to exist at the fringes of dominant Christian religious practice in Liberia. British photographer Conor Beary (b. 1989) shows a glimpse of these hidden collectives in his new series Devils. The ‘de...
In her series Lethe, the Polish-born photographer Sylwia Kowalczyk presents a collection of fragmented collages depicting how the loss of memories brings its own grief. According to Greek mythology, ‘Lethe’ refers to the river that rids memories of the dead as th...
In her latest series Coming into Focus, Ellen Jantzen (b. 1964, USA) brings different environmental surroundings into focus and explores the relationship between one’s consciousness and the change in thinking that results through relocating.
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In View Finder, a 2017 series of images from British artist Helen Sear (b. 1955), we see bales of hay in the field rendered as flat geometry. Distinctly rural, yet orderly in their circular precision, the images are calm black and white meditations on nature...
Photography is a visual study – it depends on what we have the power to see. So, in what way can a photographer consider an inability to see?
For Charlie Simokaitis (b. 1967, USA), this is not merely an academic question. When his daughter went blin...
In his series This Is Not a Tower, Denis Esakov (b. 1984, Kyrgyzstan) presents a collection of black and white architectural photographs of Soviet towers, portraying their downward shift of esteem. He describes the shift of these towers from “a dominant presence in ...
In his Black Dog Photography, Dutch photographer Maarten Kools (b. 1970) presents a high contrast stream of consciousness. Forming from the artist’s personal reaction to the death of a close friend, the series of images looks at the world through a conflic...
Nicky Hamilton (b. 1982, UK) presents the series The Lonely Man – a slow and meticulous personal project, in which each photo took around three months to produce.
Hamilton has always been a very visual man – a talent he says he has accumulated through his c...
Almost 40 years after the devastating war in Vietnam, society there has changed its hopes and dreams. A new generation of Vietnamese has set out to create high-paced economic growth. Curiously, this new capitalist spirit develops under the strict rule of the communist party....
In Drops, Christelle Boulé visualises the ineffable experience of smelling a perfume. Boulé developed a process that captures the image of a fragrance by placing a few drops of perfume on colour photographic paper. After drying, the paper is exposed to light and put into developer soluti...
In Lanzarote, between 1730 and 1736, the eruptions of Timanfaya destroyed fertile land and 26 villages. The subsequent loss of 11 villages eventually forced the majority of the population to leave the island; yet remarkably, the human race still manages to overcome and survi...
In the middle of intense, yet peaceful protests between the Native Americans, the U.S. government and Energy Transfer Partners, photographer J.R. Mankoff (b. 1981, USA) visited North Dakota to learn more about the pipeline threatening the drinking water of Lakota.
The Lakota prophec...
Focusing on the architecture and habitats of counter-cultural communities, the London-based photographer, Ben Murphy, presents his latest exhibition series, The Riverbed. The collection display shows Murphy’s ten-year encounter in the remote mountainou...
“We find duality, the mirror of ourselves, where all of the lower is in the higher, horizontal expansion, vertical emergence, it seems to be a dream, an illusion.” – Jose Espinola
Jose Espinola (b. Mexico, 1984) pays tribute to the Mexican he...
In Self-Untitled, Samantha Geballe (b. 1988, USA) pulls us in close. Focused on her physicality, the project of self-portraits shows a period of three years marked by dramatic change, alternating between a state of obesity and a body half its original size.<...
In his series ‘Those who eat fish from the cyanide lake improve their sex life’, Tomas Bachot (b. 1989, Belgium) presents us with a personal account of his time in Romania. Bachot’s images act as somewhat of a mirror – each one represents a diffe...
Amor Sui (Latin for ‘self-love’), an ongoing portrait project by Irvin Rivera, explores one extreme form of self-love by asking subjects to make love with their own mirror image. The idea followed from a random conversation that Rivera had, which led to the questi...
In her series, In the Exodus, I Love You More, Hoda Afshar (b. 1983) records her changing vision of, and relationship to, the country of her birth, Iran: a relationship that has been shaped by her moving to Australia. The images explore the interplay of presence and a...
Can a self-portrait be defined by the very absence of the subject? In his project The MeError, Leonardo Magrelli (b. 1989, Italy) plays with this question by showing what mirrors reveal when we are not in front of them. The series consists of a collection of photos ta...
Frederik Buyckx (1984, Belgium) rented a ‘pied-à-terre’ for a few months in a favela, sharing the inhabitants’ day-to-day worries. In Rio de Janeiro, around 20% of inhabitants live in improvised facilities located in populous neighbourhoods which lie cheek to cheeky jowl with the be...
In Behind the Scenes, Sergey Melnitchenko (b. 1991, Ukraine) gives us a glimpse at the off-stage doings of erotic dancers in a nameless club in China. Melnitchenko, who came to China to work as a dancer, gives us an unusually up-close vision of the club where he works. While subjects prepa...
On the cusp of the January 1994 signing of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement, between Canada Mexico, and the US), Italian photographer Lina Pallotta visited the small Mexican town of Piedras Negras. Pallotta, interested in understanding what the...
In her series, The Sleepers, Elizabeth Heyert (b. 1951, USA) discloses a world rarely seen: the private interior life of sleep. While photographing subjects from above – sleeping naked singly or in couples – Heyert exposes an exceptional transformation: fr...
In his series Open Stage, Samsul Alam Helal (1985, Bangladesh) presents people from the ‘Dalit Community’ in Old Dhaka in Bangladesh. As part of a highly hierarchical society, their work as cleaners gives them a low status, and a community of people for society lo...
Red Nostalgia is an ongoing documentary project in which Sebastian Hopp (b. 1989, Germany) photographed inhabitants of Georgia, a former Soviet country, who still feel a strong nostalgic affection towards their infamous former leader, Joseph Stalin. While the youth of Georgia have become m...
Human beings can be defined as a part of nature, yet most people seem to ignore their existence within it, and praise only a nature full of green. As an antithesis of this ‘old’ perception of nature, Japanese photographer Mankichi Shinshi (1984) started his projec...
In 2015, a twin earthquake in Nepal and India killed nearly 9,000 people and affected another 2.8 million. Sharbendu De (b. 1978, India) opted for a creative response to the extreme stress and trauma inflicted by these events. He decided to implement performative elem...
Events of the arena are spectacles for the public. Bull fights, which continue through present day in Spain, are increasingly controversial for the injury or death of both animal and man, but their defendants emphasise the ceremony involved, declaring it a sacrificial ritual...
Picnicking is far from a simple affair in eastern India. For a region that’s burdened with the blistering heat of the summer sun nearly year-round, the joy of meeting outside with food, friends and family is relegated to the brief months of tolerable weather between Decemb...
With images that radiate innocence and joy on the one hand, but suggest trauma on the other, The Children is a series that explores the vulnerable aspects of childhood with a tough and tender immediacy, showing us a world at once familiar and strange.
Collaborative ar...
Around the world, there’s still evidence to be found of the influence that the French had on their former colonies. Paris-based photographer Thomas Jorion (b. 1976) is on a mission to document the architectural traces of his homeland, abroad.
For his series E...
Soham Gupta (India, 1988) made portraits of people that he encountered in the streets of Calcutta. Looking at their faces leaves a certain kind of discomfort. Yet, at the same time – credit to the photographer – it is also tempting to stare at them, not completely...
Soaked in dreamy neon lights, the series Unutterable Visions from Tokyo-based Storm Luu (b. 1989) is a collection of brightly coloured images depicting “the personal daily minutiae of friends, lovers and strangers through scattered and disorientating fragments.”...
Each of the dead animal portraits by Japanese photographer Tomofumi Nakano (1978) begins with the question, “Why do we kill and eat it?”
The relationships we form with animals are many: friends, companions, workers, pests, threats… and food. Yet, these relationsh...
In his series Besides Faith, Italian photographer Louis De Belle (1988) looks at the crossroads of commerce and religion. Every two years, there is a world fair for church supplies in the northeast of Italy, which draws more than 13,000 people of the clergy and international reli...
In his long-term photographic project The Uncanny, Leonard Pongo (b. 1988, Belgium) captures a personal view of daily life in the mining province of Katanga in The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Pongo started his project in 2011, photographing in Congo durin...
When Jonah Meyers (b. 1971, USA) travelled to Lombok, an island that lies just east of Bali in Indonesia, he noticed that all the new features that start to register when in a place far removed from what one knows, could sometimes feel surreal. “As if you’re atten...
Discrete, mysterious and somewhat surreal, Shin Noguchi’s (b. 1976) Nonverbal Space is an incredibly thoughtful series rooted in Japanese culture. Detailing moments of complete, crisp serenity in his native Japan, there is an apocalyptic atmosphere about the work due to the complete lack...
Ning Kai (b. 1987, China) and Sabrina Scarpa (b. 1991, Netherlands) have been a photographic duo since 2013. In their series The Land Between Us, the duo aims to show the moments of revelation, equality and intimacy that they see within thinly populated areas. ...
The End of Winter, a photo series from German photographer Daniel Schumann (1981), started unexpectedly: with a car crash. The accident destroyed a substantial amount of Schumann’s photography gear, and prompted him to question what photography meant to hi...
Nigerian photographer Jenevieve Aken (b. 1989) is fascinated by how events shape characters. Her series Great Expectations takes inspiration from the eponymous novel by Charles Dickens, in which the character Miss Havisham has been jilted at the altar, and because of ...
Inspired by her experiences shooting backstage at New York fashion week during shows like Thom Browne, in which models adopt completely new personas using a mix of hair, make up and clothing, Jacqueline Harriet (b.1993, USA) started photographing the actress and celebrity impersonator Mich...
Along seaside towns, sun-worship reigns. French photographer Anaïs Boileau (1992) captures the eccentric brightness of those that chase the sun’s rays, juxtaposed with the colourful Latin architecture surrounding them. Their eyes hidden behind protective eye-wear, the women be...
In his series Efflorescent Cherry, Matt Slater (b. 1994, South Africa) photographs the beauty and oddities of nature whilst in transition and captures the serene and melancholic poetry that he witnesses in its decay. He uses a variety of analogue photographic practice...
Humour is a rare trait in modern photography, especially with the level of wit shown by London-based Street photographer Stephen Leslie (b. 1970). Capturing everything from the unspeakably bizarre to the screamingly funny, Stephen Leslie possesses timing one might exp...
In her series Puree with a Taste of Triangles, Russian photographer Alena Zhandarova (b. 1988)photographs herself in queer positions and costumes. Conflating herself with curious objects and backgrounds, her body merges with its surroundings like a wallf...
In modern society, we are often posed the question of what it means to be male or female. That’s exactly what Italian photographer Francesa De Chirico (b. 1995) is trying to establish in her latest series, Portrait of a Gender, via the documentation of the long, arduous process...
We can say with certainty that cats do not possess the power to fly… but they can jump very well indeed. In Jumping Cats, the latest series from Austria-based photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, cats are caught airborne, frozen mid-flight in a high leap ...
Who says getting older has to be boring? In his series Serenity, New York-based photographer Can Dagarslani (b. 1984, Turkey) takes the assumption to task that as we get older, we have to live with some measure of calmness and serenity.
Full of bright colours a...
What does it mean to be a businessman in the 21st century? While some hold the title of ‘businessman’ to be a compliment of seriousness and success, for others, it has come to imply a distinctly negative circle of traits: of suit-clad sociopathy that values money over hu...
Inspired by reports of a lone brown bear running wild in the forests of Switzerland – a bear who was eventually shot by the authorities when it got too close to human settlements – Marco Frauchiger (b. 1976) went searching deep in the woods of his native country w...
The FAT Football League, a new photographic venture from Paris-based Simone Perolari (b. 1976), focuses on exactly what it sounds like: a football league created exclusively for men whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is 30+. In other words, medically overweight.
The league, created in a to...
Quite literally exploding with colour, Dutch-born Rein Janssen’s (b. 1983) portfolio is a macrocosmic examination of natural and man-made objects. Fascinated by colour and the many natural ways one can manipulate physical objects, Janssen freezes, burns, crystallize...
The series A Frame Without a Name is about the social consequences caused by the fear of terror. Belgian based photographer Guus Bakker (b. 1989, NL) started the project in reaction to the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13th 2015, when he noticed that beyond t...
After seeing some traditional kotekas – personal and elaborately decorated penis sheaths that serve as a symbol of virility, practiced in Melanesia, South America and Africa – Finnish-born Kenneth Bamberg (b. 1981) pondered what his own design might look...
Folie à Deux is a photographic narrative of a fictional crime that Brazilian photographer Felipe Abreu (b. 1989) created using contemporary imagery, archive imagery and snippets of text. The series displays a visual labyrinth of clues that leave it to the viewer to ...
Fuelled by her mixed feelings for pop culture, Seattle-based photographer Natalie Krick (b. 1986) makes photographs that mimic and reference cliché images of sexuality and beauty. Starting from the belief that what is considered beautiful and flattering nee...
Meeting at the intersection of the aesthetics of pop art, the content of an anthropological study and the colours of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, La Forma Bruta is Martín Bollati’s (b. 1986) most recent creative venture. Ablaze with fantastically bright...
Following his photographic instincts to a natural conclusion, Don McKenna (b. 1952) has been impulsively shooting close to home in the Midwest since he graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute four decades ago.
Shooting the urban landscapes that surround hi...
Injecting barren landscapes with gargantuan, digitally manipulated structures, Pouria Khojastehpay (b. 1993) invites the viewer to “immerse themselves in the future failed landscapes of ruin” in his cinematic photomontages. A collection of brutalist, dystopian an...
There is an ethereal elegance about UK-based photographer Ashley Bourne’s (1993) latest series, Benedict’s House, where we are offered an insight into the secluded world of the Benedictine Monastery. With a keen eye for detail, Bourne shoots in a stylishly clean a...
Martha is an ongoing project in which Siân Davey (b.1964) explores the relationship between herself and her step-daughter, by photographing her during the vibrant period of time as she grows into a woman. She says about the process of working together on the series: “we have ...
Sensitive and hauntingly honest, Come un Fiume (Italian for ‘Like a River’) is a biographical, visual retrospective concerning photographer Camilla Riccò’s (b. 1987) subjects struggles with both anorexia and bulimia. Delicately responding to a wide ra...
After reading an article about the atrocities facing people with albinism in Tanzania, Nairobi-based photographer Sarah Waisa (b. 1980, Uganda) felt compelled to raise awareness about the issue. Waiswa reached out to the Kenyan Albino Society, where she was ...
Grandmothers, by Polish artist Magda Kuca (b. 1993), is a sentimental project about the artist’s grandmother and her general ancestry, photographed using the 19th century ‘wet plate’ technique (wet-collodion process). The process, discovered in 1851, involves adding a solu...
By manipulating the exposure process in a large format camera, with the aid of some black paper and a 3D modelling programme, San Antonio-based photographer Charlie Kitchen (b. 1991) is able to perform a unique in-camera collage that results in a stunning collision be...
Australian/British artist Odette England (b.1975) explores the invisible social space of family storytelling through photographs by crossing into taboo territory of destroying original personal possessions. Using handmade c-prints and original snapshots from her famil...
Growing up in the wilderness of Northern Ontario with a family of lumberjacks, where she would spend her time taming wolves and shooting rifles, Kourtney Roy (b. 1981) is fairly unaccustomed to social norms. Her latest project indicates this with a visual feast that transcends photographic...
In between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Sea lies the once third largest lake in Italy, Lake Fucino. Since Prince Alessandro Torlonia drained it in the 19th century, it lies bleak and bare with, in Di Nardo’s own words, “few things capable of sprouting up, as if...
The International Summer School of Photography (ISSP) is designed for emerging photographers, students of photography and art, and artists working with photography. Taking place in a unique setting in the Latvian c...
Inspired by “things that aren’t real”, Connecticut-based Samantha Sealy (b. 1991) creates meaning through ‘destructive processes’ until she built a world she felt reflected her own. The result is rather surreal and ghostly, with a definite gothic edge to it ...
Powerfully stark, Paris-based Bénédicte Vanderreydt’s (b. 1980) series ‘I Never Told Anyone’, sheds light on her family history in seven delicately lit frames, detailing what she describes as the oppression of her female ancestors in an age of patriarchy. Bala...
In L’Enfant-femme, Rania Matar (b. 1964) shows the vulnerability of preteen girls from different cultures that are developing sense of selfhood, sexuality and womanhood. By photographing with an analogue camera where her subjects cannot see the immediate results of the shoot, Matar takes...
When something is hidden, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It may just be that there’s a good reason for it to remain concealed. The series ‘I Don’t Need to Know You’ is a collaboration between Russian photographer Katia...
Inspired by the Southern Gothic tradition, Jaime Johnson (b.1988, USA) photographs in the swamps and woods of Mississippi and Louisiana, exhibiting a fascination for life and growth as well as death and decay. Creating a story around a female character who move...
Economical phenomena like gentrification, an aging audience, and changes to social dynamics – these are some of the reasons why charming places with personality can go out of business. This degradation, a transition from ‘old-fashioned’ to ‘obsolete’, is portrayed ...
There is a community living in Namibia called Baster, a name that originates from the mixed heritage of the community between German colonizers and the indigenous people. They made a community of their own, as they were not entirely Namibian but neither did they belong to th...
Flashing in colourful neon, the Brazilian love motels portrayed in LOVE LAND STOP TIME have an atmosphere of faded glory. Whether located in urban or rural areas, the extravagant interiors appear not to have changed for years. For lovers who meet by the hour, it looks like t...
Still-Lives, a series by photographer Eliot Dudik (b. 1983, USA) features portraits of weekend actors devoted to the re-enactments of the American Civil War. “I have learned that the motivations compelling re-enactors are incalculably complex, but generally address ...
Winter is not only a season, it can also be a state of mind. Lesya Pchelka (1989, Belarus) in her series Winter Flowers visualised this very state of mind. She explains that, during the winter, she spends a lot of time indoors, looking out the window, and recreated th...
At first, they look like monoliths of ancient or futuristic cultures. They look like constructions that transcend time and even space. Set out in the open, where almost no other signs of civilisations are to be seen, the structures of abandoned bunkers from World War II remain.
Amsterdam-b...
The urge to address the circumstances of one’s personal life through self-expression is one of the most moving and powerful reasons to work on a photographic series. In her Phoenix series, Sian Grahl (b. 1991, Australia) conceptualises her story to the extent of con...
In childhood, imagination plays a critical role: believing in something makes it so. This might be what Nantes-based photographer Aëla Labbé (b. 1986) refers to with the title of her series L’ABSENTE (The Absence). Labbé describes the series as, “An ode to absence in all of its ...
Affected by a mental condition stigmatized by his community, Cape Town–based photographer Tsoku Maela (b. 1989) eventually found that he needed to process the distress of what he was going through in a creative way. His series Abstract Peaces wasn’t intended t...
The series Lavish Fields by Polish artist Robert Mainka (b. 1992) takes us to the free exploration of colours, scenes and atmospheres.
In high stylized that range from studio still-lifes to found objects, from staged portraits to digital renderings, the feelings that they release ar...
Sometimes we come across a hostile place, a person or a situation, and nevertheless feel attracted to it. We do confront hostility in our lives, whether by circumstance or as a self-assigned challenge. Polish photographer Dominika Gesicka (b. 1981) travelled to Longye...
When beauty arises out of complexity, it is sometimes hard to be able not only to appreciate it but also comprehend it, which might be the case while looking at Vernal, a series by Polish artist Urszula Kluz-Knopek (b. 1985). The concept of “there’s no return ...
Looking at Fever Coat by Toronto-based photographer Jamie Campbell (b. 1983) we have the feeling that something has just happened, and we’re just left to wonder what. It’s like a thriller that leaves the viewer bewildered already at the beginning...
There are approximately 300 people in the world who suffer from a rare genetic disorder which prevents the process of full growth, called the Laron syndrome. In a remote region of southern Ecuador, there are roughly 100 people with this condition. German photographer Char...
ZEISS is one of the world’s leading optical companies and a trendsetter when it comes to high quality camera lenses. Architectural photographer Martijn Kort is ZEISS ambassador and knows how to appreciate the quality and durability of ZEISS lenses. In his ...
There are two places in the world that share the name “Georgia”: one is a state in the deep south of the United States and the other is a country in Eastern Europe, in the former Soviet Union. Based on their geography, one could expect them to be vastly different, but be...
House of Haze by Berlin-based artist Klara Johanna Michel (b. 1990) mesmerizes with beauty. Working primarily in fashion and portrait imagery, Michel uses on this series a special technique, colouring black and white negatives directly with tint...
The culture of being exposed to, and choosing to look at, nudity is a strange thing. While we in the West are somehow comfortable with our long relationship of female nudes, our relationship to male nudes in more fraught with difficulties. “The representation of eroticism ...
Miriam Stanke (1983, Germany) went to visit a remote mountainous area of Eastern Anatolia with the Munzur river and valley at its heart. This is Dersim, the historical heartland of the Kurdish Alevis or Kızılbaş, a very heterodox religious group that has been oppressed and att...
The Meatpacking District in Manhattan is a neighbourhood formerly known for its gay nightlife, transgender sex workers and leather clubs. In her series Meatpacking, New York-based photographer Dina Litovsky (1979, Ukraine) shows how the nightlife has changed in the di...
The life of a shepherd is one ruled by the changing seasons, the fruits of the land and, increasingly, one that is at the mercy of a rapidly changing culture and global economy. In a small Slovenian settlement in the foothills of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, Velika Planina (Grea...
(PHOTO)graphy by Hong Kong-based photographer Sheung Yiu (b. 1991) is a still life series aiming to examine photography’s limits when it comes to representing reality. “When an image is printed on a sheet of paper, the paper acquires the appearance of the s...
New York based photographer Ryan Caruthers (b.1994) presents his series Tryouts, a personal depiction of the isolation and unease he felt during his formative years, towards sports. Affected by a physical condition that contributed to his estrangement from any athleti...
Norwegian photographer Øistein Sæthren Dahle (1988) began photographing his series in 2009, during a period when he was beginning a relationship and also a close friend had died. The contrast between these events marked the work’s progress till present d...
Paris-based photographer Julien Mauve (b. 1984) confronts us with an immediate reflection: while more than 500 years ago, we defined archetypical explorers through events like Columbus ‘discovering’ America, an explorer nowadays is a robot called Curiosity, now mo...
In her ongoing project Suspended Boundaries, Boston-based photographer Sara Romani (b. 1987, Italy) focuses on how photography translates reality: what goes through the lens of a camera gains the value of a language, and therefore is given a meaning. Romani, who studied set design and thea...
The exploration of our vast universe may start with something small: a seed. Inspired by the hypothesis of panspermia – that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids and even unintentionally by spacecraft – Finni...
Alex Nelson (b.1989, USA) deals with the issue of her parents’ divorce in the series From Here on Out, a five-year-long meditation on how this event has affected her nuclear family, and how the established roles have evolved through the years, influencing interpersonal dynamics.
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Blue is the colour of sadness and blue is the colour that Osaka-based photographer Mikel Berradre (b. 1985, Basque Country) used to tint his photographs for the series Blue Bastards, in an attempt to illustrate certain aspects of Japanese society that he regards as m...
Far From Home is a series by Switzerland-based photographer Youqine Lefévre (b.1993) about kids living in a foster home on the mountains. This work relates to the personal experience of the photographer, a key element to understanding the series’ subj...
Transitory Items, a series by Swiss photographer Douglas Mandry (b. 1989) recalls at first sight the photographic experiments of the early 20th century, in which shape has the primary role in the composition of images while the figurative significance loses...
Takeshi Suga (1982, Japan) takes us along on a journey through wintertime Japan, across snowy landscapes and frozen quietude. Originally inspired by the 1934 song ‘Winter Wonderland’, which is quite a common holiday season song in Western culture, Suga says that while many Ja...
Heterotopien by Karsten Kronas (b. 1978, Germany) is a series about Beyoglu’s throbbing life, a personal depiction of Istanbul’s neighbourhood where the photographer lived for two years.
Despite the personal approach of the series, its title already...
Wanting to depict the emotional tide of adolescence, Niki Boon (b. 1974, New Zealand) started photographing her eldest daughter, who had recently turned 11. “I am intrigued with the the evolution one goes through at this significant and vulnerable stage”, explains Boon. “I regard it ...
“What do humans need in order to love?” asks Julia Steinigeweg (1987, Germany). Does it require a shared exchange of emotion, or is love ultimately felt and experienced alone, individually?
Looking at relationships formed between humans and lifeli...
Intrigued by the transformative quality of masks, Polixeni Papapetrou (1960, Australia), began looking into the types of masks available in toy stores. She noticed that many masks were comical caricatures of the elderly and became interested in the idea of the elderly as ‘other’. Despi...
When communication breaks down, a camera can sometimes be used to come to a better understanding. Monia is an ongoing project by Italian photographer Giovanni Cocco (b. 1973) which explores the photographer’s relationship with his sister Monia, who was born with...
Amsterdam-based photographer Geert Broertjes (b. 1987) takes us on a journey through the night, roaming through dark streets lit up by enigma, seeking solace in short-lived romances in hallucinatory bedroom scenes.
“In 2012 my mother, grandmother and aunt pas...
Coupled with life is death. Yet, for all our contemplation and celebration of life, we still struggle to speak effectively about its counterpart. In his new series, produced in collaboration with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, Edga...
Raised in the United States, and currently residing in The Netherlands, Gavin de Boer is a young and talented photographer who started photographing landscapes and animals. Nowadays Gavin focuses more on portraying people. A...
The Four by Jillian Freyer (b. 1989, USA) is an ongoing project that started as “an effort to explain and detangle” the relationship between the author’s two sisters, their mother and herself. The series is a collection of fragments, imperfect details and cl...
After reading Richard Sennet’s anthropological and scientific studies, in which he states that technological advances have made us more and more detached from nature, creating a passive culture that deprives our senses, Glasgow-based photographer Laura Thompson (198...
Matt Henry (1978, UK) continues his work with photographic fiction in his latest series, Born on the Bayou, taking influence from the genres or crime, American gothic and the stylings of the ‘60s. The series is comprised of staged images using a cast of actors, with...
Society places expectations on its citizens through labels; templates of existence. These expectations can be so pervasive that they’re even internalised, making it difficult, if not impossible, to arrive at an individual truth, or to take a genuine look in the mirror.
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For Spanish photographer Helio Léon (1987), the boundaries between life, dreams and imagination are thin. Researching how the past and present are connected, and how his past has effected him and made him into the person that he is now, Léon returned to th...
Architecture is an essential part of our modern existence. Through the centuries, architecture has became our natural environment, and alongside technological advancements it is tasked with contributing to improving human activities.
Arkanum, a series by Berlin-based ...
For some people retiring and ageing can be experienced as a way of disappearing, as one’s ‘utility’ in society is no longer required. One has only to accept the fact that the body is not as efficient and appealing as in the past years.
In her latest project Hello I’...
A border is a conceptual notion, something we create through agreement or force. As such, they can often be imaginary, their very presence somewhat ambiguous or arbitrary. In his series A Road Not Taken, German-American photographer Jasper Bastian (1989) mak...
Emotions are very often invisible, yet we all know they exist. What occurs under the skin will occasionally materialise in behaviour or appearance, but just as often, can be suppressed or hidden. As a result of some inclement health issues, Dutch photographer Camille...
Hamburg-based photographer Hayley Austin (1984, USA) looks head-on at the intimate relationships of couples in her new series Narratives of Desire. Through these environmental portraits, we find ourselves in the private spaces of cohabited apartments, witnessing moments fuelled b...
According to Canadian photographer Benoit Paillé, photography is not a representation of what is real, but creates its own reality. For over a year, Paillé travelled through the vast landscape of Canada whilst living in his truck. Living in a vehicle for so long cha...
With technological innovation and global communication, our world changes faster than we can fully process – and yet, religious beliefs continue to hold firm value for individuals and societies, irrespective of culture or the specifics of particular religions. While it’s increasingly common t...
One day, Japanese based photographer Michiko Chiyoda visited a doll museum and came across a doll that had once been used in the Ningyo Joruri Puppet Theatre, one of Japan’s representative traditional performing arts. Chiyoda researched the roots of the doll and fou...
On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anderes Behrind Breivik detonated a bomb in the streets of Oslo, then shot dead 69 people on the island of Utøya in Norway. This attack was Europe’s largest terrorist attack at the time, killing more than 75 and injuring more than 30...
Melbourne-based photographer Katrin Koenning (Germany) created her photo series Indefinitely with an interest in people’s physical and emotional connection to place and movement through language, culture and continent. The series was shot in Australia, New Zealand a...
“To me, the photograph starts as a recording of light. It doesn’t matter if the final outcome is made of pixels, grains or pure data.” – Carson Lynn
When you look at American photographer Carson Lynn’s series Obsessi...
In the rural villages of the Spanish region of Galicia, Jesús Madriñán (1984, Spain) photographed young party-goers as they pause from the revelry for a portrait. The flash of Madriñán’s camera draws an uncommon amount of light into scenes often shrouded in dar...
Young girls posing provocatively in front of a small phone camera – it’s something we’re now used to seeing, but normally without so much insight into the goings on surrounding the photo. Inspired by the increasing ubiquity of these seemingly private images acr...
In a world supported by facts, even the most die-hard sceptics among us (want to) believe in magic. Humans can’t help it; though we try to be logical, irrational beliefs are hardwired in our psyches. Since childhood, American photographer Grant Gill has believed in ...
Recycling waste not only benefits the environment, it breathes new life into old objects that were once destined for the landfill. In his series Wasteland, Portuguese artist Pedro Maia (1983) works with waste material produced by an analogue film lab and degraded film...
In 1997, when Israeli photographer Natan Dvir (1972) first arrived to his new home city of New York, he was overwhelmed by the huge commercial advertisements that dominate the urban landscape. Larger than life, the billboards have become such an everyday par...
In his series Portraitgraphs, Manuel Velasquez (Honduras) combines two features that are commonly used to distinguish one human from another: face and voice. Inspired by the algorithms used in facial recognition systems, Velasquez created a data-driven manipulation of...
In a society in which the church plays a major role, it is still a taboo to talk about topics like sexuality. In her photo series Zenth, Margo Ovcharenko (1989, Russia) connects religion and sexuality, two topics typically considered separate by society, even though t...
Western culture has traditionally viewed gender as a binary concept, with two rigidly fixed options: male or female, both grounded in a person’s physical anatomy. The idea is so common that it is a relatively new phenomenon to be challenged; we are born, assigned a sex, an...
Trona, a small mining town near Death Valley (California) was established in 1914 to house a workforce extracting borax and soda ash from Searles Dry Lake. American Trona Corporation owned and operated the town, building housing and schools, shops, dance halls, cinemas and a...
In her series Healing Plants for Hurt Landscapes, Laurence Aëgerter (1972, France) looks to photography as a means of recovery from disaster. Rather than looking head-on at victims or dealing directly with those who have been harmed by tragedies worldwide, ...
The Tōhoku earthquake of 2011 was the most powerful earthquake in recorded history to have hit Japan. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves, which, in turn, caused a nuclear disaster. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex and the associated evacuation zones affected hundred...
With her series Body Becoming, Leah Edelman-Brier (USA) confronts ideals of beauty while questioning the resilience of the body. Focusing on elements that draw our attention to corporeal decay and ill health, like excess weight, rotten teeth and eczema, Edelman-Brier accentuates ...
As society begins to awaken to the impact of the technological revolution, and reckon with the day following the dawn of the information age, artists use their work to both reflect and look forward. In his series Humanity, Kazuto Ishikawa (1983, Japan) consi...
With his series Tangibles, photographer Carlos Collado (1977, Spain) focuses on the moment in which an artwork leaves the showroom and is handled by curators, scientists, restorers and other museum staff. In this transition, the reality of the object changes along with its contex...
Turkish photographer Barbaros Kayan (1982) portrayed Syrian refugees who had to leave their homes in Kobani to escape to Turkey and have been settled in refugee camps. The grey, barren environments of the portraits make us aware of the poor living conditions in the camps. However...
Influenced by the research of anthropologist Francesco Remotti (1943) about the problematic character of human identity, photographer Valentina Murabito (Italy, 1981) wanted to create a series of portraits that would break the rigid rules of implying a stron...
A photograph can have multiple lives. By taking vintage photographs and physically manipulating them, Amy Friend (1974, Canada) participates in an orchestration of destruction to arrive at something new.
In her series Dare Alla Luce, an Italian term meaning ‘to bring to ...
In 2014, Rebecca Rütten (1991, Germany) travelled to Central America and began to photograph a group of long-term travellers who had settled in a hostel on an island. People from all over the world collected in this wooden fairyland, in pursuit of the same dream: to break free from societ...
The Great British seaside town: depicted as a place where the sun always shines, one can feast on jellied eels and 99p ice creams whilst lounging on a striped deck chair and the only form of transport is by donkey. This sunny stereotype is challenged by Mark Page (1967, UK) in hi...
What if you meet a stranger at night who tells you he’s a photographer and wants to photograph you naked? Giorgio Papadopoulos (1981, Spain) met people in bars and, after a talk, he invited himself to their private residences to capture a glimpse of their personality. In high contrast bl...
The original Olympus PEN-F first hit the streets in 1963. It was a revolutionary camera that triggered the half-frame camera boom of the 1960s and 1970s. Now, 53 years later, Olympus offers a digital update of the Original PEN-F. The camera, which looks retro and therefore similar to the original...
Theatrical and often absurd still-lifes of arranged food and everyday objects, like a quail’s egg, octopus, coffee sleeves, aluminium foil and toilet paper, are the subjects of Jiaxi Yang’s (1989, China) series The Horizontal Mode of a Waking Life. After being pla...
In case we of modern times, embedded hard in the throes of digital media, are ever tempted to forget that photography started as an alchemical, physical thing, let us remember to look at its remnants. Alison Rossiter (1953, USA) creates her camera-less photographic works with mat...
The photographic medium is used by many to document what is happening in front of the them. But what if what is happening in front of you is an elusive present – one that is constantly shifting and changing? French photographer Julien Lombardi (1980) uses photog...
In the early 1800s, after the emergence of stories of a black liquid seeping from the ground, the then fledgling Seneca Oil Company (Pennsylvania) sent Colonel Edwin Drake, a retired railroad worker, in search of this elusive substance. As seemingly unproductive progress was...
Dominated by stark colours and geometric shapes and surfaces, these abstract images by British photographer James Reeve evoke, at first glance, visions of alternate realities. However, the images in Fractures are actually quite terrestrial. Reeve photographe...
The winter motorcycle rally The Elefantentreffen takes place during a weekend in January or February in the Bavarian Forest, where the temperatures are often below zero. Conditions are tough: the bikers don’t have any facilities but tents and straw. Despite the frost and s...
With his photo series The Twelfth Night, Italian photographer Emanuele Camerini (1987) visualized a popular legend from Kalsoy (Faroe Islands), which he discovered during his study in Denmark. It is believed that once a year, on the twelfth night after Christmas, seal...
The meticulously constructed scenes in Korean photographer Jisun Choi’s series My Sweet Home seem so perfectly made that the work approaches the surreal. Clean symmetry and crisply chosen colours, together with an obsessive level of control over every deta...
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900 – 1958) was one of the founders of quantum physics, nicknamed the ‘Conscience of Physics’. He was also known, however, for a trait a little less honorary. Legend has it that when Pauli entered a room, experiments would fail and machinery woul...
Thinking about death can evoke uncertainty and fear, however, our mortality could be seen as something liberating and enlightening as well. With her photo series Juncture, Ebony Finck (1987, Australia) visualized a story about the sensitive subject of our transition between the s...
Vitor Schietti’s (1986, Brazil) light sculptures will never be perceived as a whole by a human witness. However, in his ongoing project Impermanent Sculptures, Schietti is able to capture light sculptures by making use of his favorite photography techniques, long exposure and l...
The bizarre scenes of Testament, in which couples and families, dressed only in their undergarments, interact with and are absorbed by strange, vibrantly coloured sculptures, make you want to take a closer look. To investigate heavy burdens and how we carry them, American ph...
German photographer Andreas Rzadkowsky takes as the starting point for his imagery a question: when does photography turn into a painting? The result is a series of highly processed images, unapologetically expressing signs of their physicality and manipulations, like...
Surveillance, and surveillance photography, has an ever-increasing presence in our daily lives. Yet, despite the fact that we are all under surveillance, on the street and in public and private areas, there’s still an unconscious judgment we tend to make when we see images of people under surve...
American photographer Kris Graves photographs black men in studio portraits that, while carefully arranged, offer a sensitivity in line with a genuine encounter. In taking a similar aesthetic approach to each man’s portrait, Graves manages to emphasize...
Not all stories are meant to make sense. In a series of black and white photographs and illustrations, Guilherme Gerais (1987, Brazil) introduces us to an alternative view on an unknowable universe. “The series is presented as a map, a guide, a trail to a ritualistic journe...
With his black-and-white photo series Médula, which is the Spanish word for marrow, photographer Camilo Amaya captures impressions of his experiences and memories. Drawing together disparate subject matters and sceneries, Amaya reveals visual thoughts that are someho...
French-Mexican photographer Alexandra Serrano takes a poetic walk through the woods in her series Nesting in the Wolf Tree. Contemplating the dual meaning of a forest as both a place where one can seek shelter, as well as a place of unknown danger, Serrano c...
The astronaut Neil Armstrong once said that when he looked back at the earth from the moon, he didn’t feel like a giant – instead he felt very, very small. In the series My First Dream, London-based photographer Diego Brambilla (1978, Italy) combines photography, ...
In folklore, the woods are seen as a place of magic; a place rarely travelled and where things are not always as they seem. Having grown up on a hundred-acre parcel of land, Canadian photographer Darren Rigo knows this too well. As a child, he explored the woods and s...
In this series, architect and photographer Claire Laude (b. 1975, Orleans) combines isolated aspects of landscapes with people into installations of decaying spaces. Through these constructed images, she creates an awkwardly artificial environment in which traces of life feel lon...
Since its inception, photography has been used as a way of collecting data, marking events and documenting evidence. Tal Barel (Israel) explores the institutions which, like photography, produce, organise and structure knowledge in her series Fool’s Gold. Focusing o...
The vibrantly coloured backgrounds in French photographer Christoph Soeder’s (1989) series Unfading immediately catch your eye, but the people that he portrays in front of them pull you in. These women are all affected by the autoimmune disease alopecia, a condition...
Learning to live in a new place can be a strange, disorientating process, especially if you move and have to adapt to an entirely new culture. Offcut, The Edge is the ongoing project from Chinese photographer Zhao Qian (1990), who moved from Shanghai to San Francisco ...
The legendary American country singer Dolly Parton once famously said “it takes a lot of money to look this cheap”, inspiring thousands of performers during her long and still active career. Dollypalooza, held in New York City, is the annual celebration of the national t...
Providence-based photographer Brett Henrikson uses the physicality of the photographic object in an unconventional way, combining the craft and alchemy of darkroom processes with collage techniques. Rather than providing the viewer a realistic window into our world, H...
Current technology in exploration means that we are able to receive images of planets and stars millions of miles away, undecipherable to the human eye from earth, having only been witnessed by a robot. American photographer Drew Nikonowicz (1993) investigates the role of the modern explor...
Brooklyn-based artist Sophie Kahn (1980) shows a fascinating interpretation of what it means to photograph life by combining 3D-scan technology with ancient bronze casting techniques. Her work speaks to the impossibility of capturing more than a trace of the...
Paper is often seen as a material on which to place art, be that a drawing, a photograph or some other creative expression. At first glance, New York City-based Patricia Voulgaris’ images of dismembered limbs covered by abstract forms, made of what appears to be folded paper, may seem pe...
According to Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt (1987) “Black and white photography is pure and doesn’t distract”. In this selection of recent work, containing single images all produced in 2015, he constructs stark photos with a certain kind of focus a...
With the ever-present nature of social media taking up increasing time and space in our lives, most of us have a curated online persona we convey to the outside world, with some so sophisticated, they are almost impossible to find flaws in, no matter how different from their...
Hong Kong photographer Dustin Shum explores the living conditions inside the artificially engineered residences of happiness with his series BLOCKS. Shum looks at the renovated and brightly coloured residences, which try to gloss over the image of public housing as ‘cheap r...
Vojtech Veskrna (1988, Czech Republic) has been fascinated since his childhood with flying. While spending most of his childhood in claustrophobic and unpleasant rooms of block housing, he kept dreaming about space, both for his mind and body. In his series My Air Force, he inclu...
London-based documentary photographer Anna Filipova documented the current living situation on Svalbard, a cold, dark and isolated island in the Arctic Ocean, situated about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. Norway and Russia are the only two nations with sett...
The colour ‘sky blue’ is a hue that is easy to picture in the mind, a light, slightly greyish blue that is often seen painted on the walls of baby boy’s bedrooms or bathrooms, but in fact, the sky can present many different shades, from icy and pale, to deep and rich. ...
Mysterious thick fog covers the wild landscape, rolling down hills or sitting ethereally on top of cold water. Brazilian photographer Laura Del Rey (1985) acknowledges the incomprehensible engine of nature in her series Hart, made in collaboration with cinematographer Alziro Barb...
Facial recognition systems, which attempt to automatically recognise an individual in a picture based on coordinates of facial features, date back to the ‘60s. The implications of developing the technology at that time, prior to mass available digital photography and the n...
There are many eye-catching moments in the everyday to be found, it is just that us adults rarely notice them, having lost our child-like wonder for the world around us. Dries Segers (1990, Belgium) captures these fleeting moments in his series Seeing a Rainbow, in which the spectrum of co...
According to a study by Focus Magazine, 76 per cent of Italians believe in ghosts and around half claim to have seen one. Photographer Barbara Leolini (1988) decided to investigate ghost-hunting groups in her native country, questioning: what happens when your rational mind cannot explain ...
Greek philosopher Plato wrote that when a person died, their soul rose to the night sky, becoming part of the stars. Glasgow-based photographer Alan Knox scattered the ashes of his grandfather onto photographic paper in his series Universal Sympathy, making them appea...
Italian photographer Michele Tagliaferri (1980) tries to break the perimeter of the photograph by capturing the energy that was kept within the photograph; an invincible energy that creates, transforms and destroys the life that surrounds us. To Michele, every photograph is born ...
Since the abolition of apartheid, South Africans have been working towards a more integrated society, where everyone lives together in one community, but there are still tensions and separation between races. Swiss photographer Claudio Rasano (1970) noticed the apparent divide and document...
Inside every human being is an animal instinct, a primordial urge that reminds us of our ancestors and when we were wild. Polish photographer Agnieszka Gotowała (1986) captures the relationship between the body and nature in her series Nothing Has Changed, ...
It is difficult to imagine life without electricity, to power our mobile phones or light our houses at night, but in Myanmar, only 26% of the country has access to the electrical grid. The country previously known as Burma is surrounded by economic heavyweights such as China and India, who have d...
British photographer Dougie Wallace reflects on the most pressing social issue of our time in a visual journey through the growing wealth divide. His series Harrodsburg, a reference to Harrods, the most renowned luxury department store of London, can be seen as an up-close wealth...
Ask anyone what Las Vegas looks like and you’ll often receive the same answer: glittering lights and huge casinos. It is not even necessary to have visited to be able to picture the city in your mind. But besides the glitz and glamour of the strip, there are suburban, resi...
The Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri in Cyprus is one of the two British Sovereign Territories created in 1960. It is autonomous and has as its head of state the British Monarch. But, there are no border barriers, no customs offices. Daily life for civilians carries on along the peninsula, right n...
Nigerian-American photographer Nkiruka Oparah (b. 1985) researches what cultural identity looks like in a digital age. Oparah combines photos that she finds online, with self-portraits, drawings, still images from video, and digital collage. The result is a colourful series in wh...
It is hard to find someone who enjoys the biting cold of winter, but the residents of the frozen lakes of Maine often have to withstand temperatures of -23° C (-10° F) and colder in the darker months of the year. In his series Traps and Flags, Penn Chan (USA) has captured these people, s...
Human beings often consider themselves superior to other animals, able to control their instincts and impulses, but in Elements, Russian photographer Anna Block (1982) reminds the viewer that no matter how civilised, untamed forces of nature still reside inside them. Block pursues the noti...
Globalisation has transformed culture into a permeable substance, absorbing or being absorbed by neighbouring nations. Ideas, fashion and cuisine travel fluently across physical and digital distances – sometimes melting into an existing identity, and other times being adopted as an exotic annex...
Sometimes the eye can trick you into seeing something that is not really there, in periphery vision or even, right in front of you. Swedish photographer Stefan Bladh (1976) plays with what he calls “illusory reality” in his series Fiction, taken during many years of travelling. The ima...
Siberia is often seen as a symbol of extreme cold and isolation, or even synonymous with the gruelling punishment of the gulag. Today, however, the region takes on a new interpretation as people in Russia come to talk about it as a magical place for energetic and spiritual healing.
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Tradition, folklore, familial bonds, nature and poetics are separate stars connected in a single sky in this photo series from American photographer Paul Thulin (1971). The setting is Gray’s Point, where Thulin’s family has returned each summer for over ...
“Everything that’s great about India and everything that’s wrong with it can be summarised in a single wedding”, says Indian photographer Mahesh Shantaram (1977). Though he became known in his home country primarily as a wedding photographer, Shantar...
In the world of the smartphone, with apps such as Instagram and Tumblr, we are constantly bombarded with images that all look the same. We become numb to them and seek out uniqueness. Saba Gilaki (1988, Iran) aims to break the mould with her series Reaction, featuring...
Namibia is a country named after a desert, so it is quite easy to assume that the majority of land would be filled with desolate emptiness. Maroesjka Lavigne (1989, Belgium) photographed the sandy landscapes of Namibia in her series Land of Nothingness, capturing an eerie beauty ...
The loss of a family member can be absolutely devastating, hitting everyone differently and leaving a lasting mark on those affected. When New York-based photographer Jordanna Kalman’s mother died suddenly, she found herself unable to continue with her previous work...
For many people, the opportunity to go to school and finish education seems like something that is certain, never thinking that there may be some obstacle or reason to give up school. Greek photography duo Panos Charalampidis and Mary Chairetaki decided to capture people who had dec...
Russian photographer Yanina Boldyreva (1986) and Ukrainian photographer Alexander Isaenko(1976) have joined forces to create a photo series that shines light on ‘The Rupture Zone,’ a place of military conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The photographic duo focuses on the e...
In Tehran and other Iranian cities, there are numerous female musicians, painters, photographers and other creatives, but they are suppressed by a government that deems their practice to be against Islam. Claudia Willmitzer (1982, Germany) documents the imaginary world of these women in St...
For as long as American photographer Sarah Malakoff (b. 1972) can remember, she has had a preoccupation with domestic interiors, constantly rearranging furniture and other items. Her obsession continues in the series Second Nature, in which she demonstrates...
Our eyes capture thousands of images every day, so many in fact, that it is impossible for us to appreciate the beauty or strangeness in the mundane. Charles-Henry Bédué (1980, France) photographs observations of his daily life in The Cult of Self, made in normal moments throughout the d...
In The Two Labyrinths, Michel Le Belhomme (1973, France) takes on one of traditional photography’s biggest darlings: landscape and its representation. Describing landscapes as the “ultimate romantic subject”, often expressed as contemplative or breath-taking, Le Belhomme co...
“It all started with that one skull”, a symbol of mortality and vulnerability, a reminder that everything has its end, discovered by Polish photographer Michal Korta (1975). He found this animal skull whilst on a walk and after photographing it, created the...
Over the past three years, Sebastian Palmer (1979, UK) has been living with and photographing marginalised sections of Brazilian society. In São Paulo, where 70,000 people migrate every year in search of better conditions, life can be particularly hard – ...
In her series Interference, Danish photographer Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen (1991) brings together two separate entities, to form one, imagining the idea of two waves, meeting on the shore and creating another wave, travelling in a new direction. Interference investi...
Spa towns first originated in Britain in the 18th century, but have had a lasting effect in German culture, which boasts over 300 spa towns, where people go to rest, recuperate and ease health problems. Alexander Krack (1981, Germany) explored some of these places in his series ...
Mythology and the human spirit are themes explored by Greek photographer Petros Koublis (1981) in his series In Dreams, in which wild animals and ghostly apparitions are set against a backdrop of even wilder nature. Unspoiled landscapes, such as an empty coastline and overgrown swamps are ...
The sight of a gaseous yellow ooze emanating from a cantaloupe melon might be slightly unnerving to most people, but Maciek Jasik (b. 1978, Poland) uses this smoke-like substance to represent symbolism attached to food in The Secret Lives of Fruit and Vegetables. The modern world has separ...
American Photographer Doug Rickard (1968) took advantage of Google Street View’s massive image archive to virtually explore the roads of America over a four-year period. With his photo series A New American Picture, Rickard searched for forgotten, economically devastated, and largely aba...
For the Ekondas pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the most important moment in the life of a woman is the birth of her first child. The young mother is called Walé (‘primiparous nursing mother’). A walé carries both responsibilities and status: she returns ...
The relationship between family members seems like the strongest bond that one can feel, but over time and distance, these bonds can lose their strength. Since moving to Spain in 2013, Italian photographer Diambra Mariani (1982) has been preoccupied with the notion of distance, both geogra...
In this world, there are many terrible things that have to exist, in order to see or understand the good. For example, there would be no bravery without fear, and no honesty without deceitfulness. Paris-based photographer Pamela Maddaleno (Italy) explores these ideas ...
The window: a pane of glass designed for people to be able to see in- and outside of a building, the epitome of transparency, can be rendered completely useless by the simple act of whitewashing. Spanish photographer Josep Maria de Llobet (1973) captures windows of closed bank buildings in...
In 2009, photographer Irina Popova (1986) left her home country of Russia and since then, she has been looking through her archives for an image that represents the connection to her Motherland. The ‘mysterious Russian soul’ however, is by nature complicated, uncontrollable and absurd,...
Family albums often overlook the negative, highlighting only the happiest memories from daily life and special events, to be remembered and looked back upon with nostalgia. American photographer Erin Geideman captures the opposite in her series I Can See Right Through...
Certain places, such as New York City’s Times Square, have been photographed and reproduced so many times, it is possible to believe you know it inch by inch, even if you have never stepped on US soil. South African photographer and mixed-media artist Deborah Kanfer plays with the landsc...
There is a part of the EU in South America: Guiana is a French territory that uses the Euro and sits 7,000 kilometres away from the continent. Ariane Pfannschmidt (1984, Germany) photographed the people and places in this last vestige of French colonialism, in order to discover a new side ...
A burst of red, white and pink on a deep black background, colour spreading from a central source across the image. On first inspection, it looks like a firework, but on second glance it becomes clear that these colours aren’t coming from pyrotechnics, but from flowers. Sarah Illenberger...
There are many people who live on a country’s border, and must cross it every day in order to work, journeying only a few kilometres into entirely strange territory. Fabrizio Albertini (1984, Italy) documents some such people in his series Dairy of an Italian Border-worker. Albertini sta...
On January 23, 1973, a previously unknown volcano erupted on the Icelandic island of Heimaey, splitting the island open and eventually, increasing its size by 20%. Scottish photographer Peter Holliday travelled to the volcanically active archipelago in 2014 to document the island...
The power of mythology transcends time, carried through generations, changing and yet not losing force. Although many modern cultures enjoy legends, they rarely take them seriously. In this series from German photographer Yana Wernicke (1990), named Irrlicht, the German word for will-oR...
Hair is a rather complicated thing, with hidden meanings nestling between strands: in Western society, especially for women, it is desirable for most body hair to be removed and yet, the hair on your head should be prized, coiffed and cherished. An unwieldy mane is often a s...
Abandonment is one of the great fears and often a difficult subject to broach, but Igor Pisuk (1984, Poland) explores the dark world of loneliness in his on-going project Deceitful Reverence. He documents the world around him, photographing people or subjects that are close to him, ...
Photography is typically used to convey presence or reframe a memory, but Camille Lévêque (1985, France) turns this idea on its head in the series Dads, highlighting the disappearance of a certain male figure in family portraits. Touching on the subject of an absent father that can affec...
Between 2006 and 2013, Lucas Foglia (1983, USA) traveled throughout rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming to report on a boom in mining and energy development that is transforming the contemporary landscape there – often in the b...
The bond between a mother and daughter is like no other and yet, as the child grows, the connection changes, develops and can become fraught. Alicja Brodowicz (Poland) explores this relationship in Learning To Swim, about the physical and emotional distance that incre...
For Slovak photographer Evelyn Bencicova (1992), the combination of academic knowledge, her interest in aesthetics and her will to communicate a strong and active message to the audience are the most important aspects of creating her work. In her photo series ‘Icon�...
Christian Vium (1980) explores historical and his own perception of ‘the other’ in his series The Wake, in which he re-traces the steps of the anthropologists and photographers Frank J Gillen and W Baldwin Spencer. Between 1875 and 1912, Gillen and Spencer documen...
Electronic chips are present in many people’s everyday life and contain information that, when combined, can reveal almost every detail of the owner’s lifestyle, from earnings and expenses to opinions and identity. Maximilian Tomozei (1986, Romania) portrays chips from cell p...
‘Indian Hobbyism’ is a practice that originated in Germany in the 1920s and grew in popularity throughout the Eastern Bloc during the Communist period. The cultural mirroring of Native American societies still exists today, acting as a form of escapism, but the people who take part are incred...
“Everyone knows what is happening in Ukraine right now, this is about it”, China-based Ukrainian Sergey Melnitchenko (1991), states about his own series Military Commissariat. It’s true that the situation has been so well covered by the news that it doesn’t ne...
The word ‘Urbanistan’ conjures images in the mind of bustling foreign cities, from the hectic roads of Mumbai to the ordered chaos of Tokyo, but Slovenian photographer Matjaž Krivic has decided to capture the road less travelled. In a sort of antidote to the busi...
Bodily change and self-confidence play a major role in the realization of one‘s identity. The act of seeking recognition from the other arouses the central tenet of portrait photography: The issue of identity and self-image. German photographer Anna Charlotte Schmid ...
Siblings can become distant and turn into strangers as they each grow and forge their own path in life. Photographer Yoshikatsu Fujii wanted to understand the reason behind his parents’ divorce, so he decided to try looking at his family as he would strang...
For the past ten years, Dutch photographer Marlies Swinkels has been taking photos of her four great-aunts in De Tantes (The Aunts). Riek, Toos, Nellie and Jo (who passed away in 2009) all live together in their own, carefully structured world. None of them ever marri...
Ukrainian photography duo Synchrodogs often deal with the surreal in their images and their new photo series Supernatural is no different, acting as an exploration of the unknown. The project deals with intuition, the subconscious and natural phenomena unable to be explained by s...
In today’s society, it is possible to be constantly ‘connected’, reaching out to people by texting, checking-in, tweeting and more. Supposedly, this makes us more social, contacting friends and distant relatives, but in fact, it isolates us from the present and those around us. Eric Pick...
For Maroesjka Lavigne (1989, Belgium) the island of Japan seemed to be an isolated world far away. The Western world has cultivated a certain image of Japan, based in part on ukiyo-e pictures. These ‘pictures of the floating world’ created an unreal and idealized image of Jap...
Caring for a newborn baby is one of the most emotionally tumultuous times in anyone’s life. A mother can feel like a robot, unable to connect with the outside world, and like she has lost a part of herself. Ani Zur (1979, Ukraine) documents this formative ...
We live in a time in which fame seems to be more achievable than ever, but for some, it remains just out of reach. Gianluca Abblasio (1977, Italy) follows one such hopeful in the series I Am Dario, about a man who works in a bingo hall in Rome by day, but transforms into a rock star at nig...
Architecture has the ability to evoke emotion, associations that can be related back to childhood or a familiar memory. Matthias Jung (Germany) combines this familiarity with his fondness for collage to create Surreal Architecture. He believes “a latticed window conveys coziness, framewo...
The Grands Ensembles in Paris is a group of housing estates originally built to solve demographic growth, rural outflow and house a migrant population, while meeting the needs in modern housing. It is often portrayed by the French media as a neglected scar on the map. In the on-going project Souv...
The humble chicken is rarely a bird that is portrayed as noble or worth celebrating, but Jean Pagliuso’s (1963, USA) series Poultry Suite may challenge the viewer’s perception on just how beautiful this bird can be. Pagliuso grew up in Southern California, where she helped he...
With a nod to the 19th century Goya painting of the same name, Tres de Mayo, American photographer Adam Jason Cohen (1986) explains how this artwork provided inspirations that are subtly reflected in his work: “If you look at the painting, it’...
In the photographs of Victor Enrich (1976, Spain) buildings all over the world are getting some wild renovations. He was ten years old when he started to draw unreal cities. Eventually, his love of photography came to equal his fascination for architecture. After working in the f...
It is the strange nature of photographic images that intrigues American photographer David Samuel Stern (1982): they have the unique ability to reflect the real, while being limited as two-dimensional, static pieces of ordinary matter. Portraiture, like phot...
The porn industry is one of the most profitable and yet controversial markets in the world today, often subject to widespread scrutiny and criticism. French photographer Sophie Ebrard aims to change people’s perception of pornography through her photo series It’s Just Love. S...
The English landscapes of London-based photographer Polly Tootal (1978) teeter between descriptive places of self-assured Englishness and ambiguous places of generic anywhereness. In looking at parking lots and playgrounds, suburban housing complexes and shopping centres, she dir...
Eclectic individualism takes a collective identity in these portraits of the youth culture in Johannesburg from Oliver Kruger (1977, South Africa). Working with a melange of source material, with accessories referencing various geographies and time-periods, ...
“Symbols and rituals have long been part of human nature as a bridge to access what our senses cannot,” writes Danish photographer André Viking (1989) about his series Closed Eyes. “By being a universal language and a symbolic surface, photographs become a similar brid...
Since the 2011 earthquake of Fukushima, residents have been displaced, unable to return to their former lives. The quake, tsunami and following nuclear fallout which all contributed to Fukushima’s present inhabitability have rendered the city a ghost town, a strangely quie...
Nicholas Nixon (1947, USA) has always worked with a large-format camera, with negatives measuring 8×10 or 11×14 inches. The purpose of this is to include every minute detail of the subject in order to capture life with ultimate precision. The artist revels in variation ...
Charles Baudelaire’s assertion that “what one can see in sunlight is always less interesting than what happens behind a pane of glass” is endorsed by Gail Albert-Halaban (1970, USA) as she shares glances into personal residences of Paris, evidencing th...
Once the grand focus of Russian literature, the Volga River that flows through the nation was nourished by generation after generation as the population attempted to preserve its grandeur. However, the communities and industry that once tended to the river have now abandoned...
“This body of work represents a step from behind the veil of ideas and techniques to find earnest revelations of my struggle to be whole with my fragmented sense of self.”
The vast, serene landscapes of self-portrait artist Ville Kansanen (1984, Finland) explore the ever-changin...
Sanne Sannes (1937-1967) was the agent provocateur of the Dutch photography scene in the 1960’s. His grainy, black and white, intimate and erotic portraits of women, who he photographed in intense and ecstatic sessions, went against all the traditional rules of photography....
“Many things we meet in daily life appear inert and lifeless and so are overlooked. Closer scrutiny reveals that they’re furtively signalling each other, emitting unfathomable messages, as in some scene from a horror sci-fi doomsday movie, the kind that always end in tragedy.”
With a...
Outside of Bratislava’s mainstream society, an unconventional community has taken shape. Facing the reality of homelessness, individuals – mostly former criminals and some drug addicts – choose to create their own society where they can live by their own rules.
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Italian migration to the British cities of Bedford and Peterborough in the 1950s formed foreign societies whose culture the rest of the country was largely ignorant to. These communities’ desire to preserve their culture inspired Lucy Levene (1978, UK) as she encoun...
“In Iran, we do not have homosexuals like in your country,” former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed whilst visiting Columbia.
Laurence Rasti (b. 1990, Switzerland) visits Denizil, a small town in Turkey, where some of Iran’s gay refugees have relocated in sear...
“This confrontation is eternal, it started ages ago and will continue again and again.”
Maxim Dondyuk (1983, Ukraine) experienced first hand the winter of 2013 that changed Ukraine, yet his series conjures associations that move between the realms of reality and fiction...
Georgian photographer Dina Oganova (1987) has lived through her nation’s changing faces: formerly part of the Soviet Union, the country won independence before going on to lose parts of itself during civil war.
Despite her homeland’s continuous transformation, Oganova displays a...
Japanese society’s rejection of individualism in favour of conservative collectivism is summarised by the nation’s saying: the nail that sticks up will be hammered down. From this translation the series by Pascal Vossen (1983, Netherlands) finds its titl...
Personal items and traces of lifestyle transform houses into homes. These possessions and signs feed the interpretation of the characters that live in them, as Seza Bali (1982, Turkey) sets out to understand what personal assets are able to articulate about individual...
The guilt of a seven-year absence from his parents’ lives motivated Lek Kiatsirikajorn (1977, Thailand) to document the traces of aging that have affected their bodies and home, utilizing the therapeutic value of the photographic process. In his series As Time Goes ...
Norwegian photographer Elin Høyland captured the daily routines of two brothers, Harald (75) and Mathias (80) in rural Norway. When she started photographing the brothers, they still lived in the small farm in which they were born. Photographed in black and white, Høyland conve...
Blunt and bold, the abstract compositions of Vilma Pimenoff (1980, Finland) challenge visual perception; what happens between seeing these creations and understanding them?
Tablecloths covered in prints of fruit and flowers replace the physical objects they depict as they are stuffe...
The Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes inhabit 2,626,415 square kilometres of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, USA. Forced into the reservation in 1851 these historic enemies face the compromise of living together as the only solution to maintain their rich culture and history.
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Following the Tour de France on the back of a motorcycle, Laurent Cipriani (1980) turns his attention to its spectators. Their role is reversed; bystanders briefly become the attraction of the event. Over the last three years the eclectic mix of individuals by the roadside has captured the...
In the artisanal gold mines of Bani, Burkina Faso, death is an anticipated occurrence. For some children these mines are not just a place of work but also their home. As the price of gold declines, Slovenian photographer Matjaz Krivic observes young miners venture deeper into the ground in...
It is difficult to define the area that occupies the east coast of the Akrotiri peninsula in Limassol, Cyprus. Lady’s Mile is a coexistence of diverse cultural, historical, political and natural elements that manifest in just 7km of flat sand. The controversial territory w...
London based photographer Daniel Stier provides a “curious outsiders view into the world of science” as he documents the surreal reality of scientific research. Stier’s own investigations into existing and imagined experiments are combined with observations...
Returning to the landscapes of his childhood, Robin de Goede (b. 1978, Netherlands) remembers, “my imagination often took part of me, and I could find myself in a fairy-tale-like world filled with mythical creatures.” Offering an opportunity to escape back into this fictional world, th...
“I re-appropriate anonymous photos (taken from family albums or the internet) and superimpose my face on the bodies of unknown people. And I adopt the ambivalent status of a chameleon to traverse our forest of images in a back and forth movement, oscillatin...
The sum of Edith’s life is now found in the lonely possessions left behind in her flat after her death. In clearing out her belongings, Yorkshire photographer Christopher Nunn documents with sober and mournful tones the symbolic items of her living space and life. “Edith, a h...
“It was a trip I had always wanted to take; the legendary journey along the Trans Siberian Railway.”
For Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol (1976, Copenhagen) the journey was a sequence of unknowns: unknown photographic equipment, unk...
Polish photographer Anna Grzelewska captures the “ambiguous and perturbing” nature of the transition from girl to woman, in the documentation of her daughter approaching adulthood.
This series does not focus on the sweet and innocent aspects of childhood so commonly portrayed. N...
No longer fit for purpose, an estimated 150,000 hunting dogs are abandoned or killed in rural Spain at the end of each hunting season. London-based photographer Martin Usborne (b. 1973) restores nobility to these dogs in his series that combines the animals’ portraits with the landscapes...
G. is a special boy, but his story is one like many others.
Italian documentary photographer Claudio Menna (1985, Naples) embeds himself in the extraordinary life of a boy referred to only as ‘G.’ who he encountered at an institute for...
Toronto-based photographer Nathan Cyprys evokes absurdity and awkwardness in his series Ayre (of Distances), which was motivated by his observation of the near universal consumption of technology and the images that become attributed to it. He writes: “The subject sits posed, imitating t...
Over the past four years, Toby Coulson (1984) has visited a vast array of animal and agricultural shows to portray the relationship between people with their animals. Or as it often appears, the prized pet with their devoted owner.
Fascinated already from his first animal show, as h...
I went to the worst bars hoping to get killed but all I could do is get drunk again
Ciarán Óg Arnold (1977, Ballinasloe) observes his childhood town in a series where personal boundaries between photographer and...
“Economic disparity is sometimes subtle rather than blatant. It is quiet and insidious. It doesn’t always represent itself in a clear and concise manner.”
All that Glitters… certainly is not gold, and may in-fact be a method of control, teaching us to accept economic dispa...
No other nation in the world has as many Internet users as China – more than 600 million. However, with this new technology, now accessible at home, at work, in cybercafés and on the go through mobile devices, has also come a troubling tendency towards addiction. Jacked in to network gaming, s...
Yet the poor fellows think they are safe! They think that the war is over! Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – from George Santayana’s “Tipperary”
During the ‘90s and ‘00s the Middle East has been continuously portrayed by the ...
The photographer Giorgio Taraschi, who is currently based in Bangkok, shows in his series They Took Our Land a fight between nature and man-made activity. In 2008 the government of Berlusconi signed an international agreement with the president of Montenegro...
Occasionally, evidence comes in to destroy the flights of our imagination. Based on a BBC headline in which an alleged Bigfoot was discovered to be actually just a man in a monkey suit, this series from Brandon Juhasz (1976, USA) reacts with bold and humorous cynicism to a world ...
The Long Island based photographer Patricia Voulgaris aims to show the interesting relationship between photography and memory. In her series Fragments she reconstructs personal memories of her past and gives them a new meaning by deconstructing them. “I’m very interes...
If time is the variable that lets us see change at work, then it is perhaps inevitable that we look to objects from different points in time as a way of writing the story of evolution. In this series from Jan Rosseel (b. 1979, Belgium), we see a colle...
Thai photographer Miti Ruangkritya‘s (b. 1981,Thailand) views the surroundings of the nearby city of Siem Reap – once a sleepy backwater town, today a must-see tourist location due to the nearby Angkor Wat ruins. On the Edge explores this fast pa...
The Cologne based photographer Jonathan Fuss (1989) noticed how the city of Istanbul is currently undergoing a great transformation. There has been an expansion of economic growth in the last few years and this has brought a desire to modernize.
The series Altered Neighborhoods show...
Italy, France, Turkey, Thailand and Kosovo, Francesco Merlini (1986, Italy) has visited all of these places over the last three years to collect images of Farang, the Thai word for foreigner or stranger. As an almost constant outsider in these cultures and places he was surrounde...
MMA not only is the fastest growing sport in the world, it is also the most complete style of fighting because it mixes up all the martial arts and combat sports in a unique discipline. Inside the cage, you can hit with punches, elbows, kicks, knees but you are also allowed ...
Urban development can be like amnesia for cities. The destruction of old buildings can be like memories being erased only to be replaced by the new histories of concrete and glass. In Zhu Lan Qing’s home town of Dongshan Island she attempts to fight this amnesia with her camera...
In these videos from Theo Tagholm, who lives and works in London, stock footage of American landscapes are used to explore the concepts of simulation, and how it degrades reality into moments which only temporarily map the reality that moves and changes behind its stationary faca...
The Korean photographer Jeongmee Yoon (1969) got inspired for her Pink and Blue project by her own daughter. ”My six-year-old daughter loves pink. She wants to wear only pink clothes and only own pink toys and objects.” She decided to photograph American and South Korean...
July 1, 1916. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme, one of the more bloody battles during WW1. It’s nearly a hundred years ago, which means few people are alive now that experienced the news of that day – but some points in history take on such significance that they echo t...
The book The Road by Cormac McCarthy tells the story of a father’s journey with his young son in a post-apocalyptic world, in search of food and salvation. After reading this book, Rome-based photographer Fabio Moscatelli was inspired to produce his series The L...
“I’ve been flying since I can remember. Every time I would look out the window I would see these incredible little stories outside. The little police cars and stadiums, I always wanted to capture that somehow”. LA-based director and photographer Vincent Laforet (1975) fulfill...
Machines don’t see the way we do, that much is clear. In these urban, suburban and natural vistas taken from Apple Maps, which uses a form of 3D imaging, we see a visual representation of landscapes that’s far different from our own. Based on an incredible stream...
Simple can be beautiful and in these vigorously minimalist images from polish photographer Edyta Dufaj (1988), that simplicity is applied to question our acceptance of reality. At first the images appear as though documenting fantastical situations she has d...
Staraya Utka, a small village in Russia has has had a long history… unfortunately it is one mainly of decay and deterioration. Ever since the local Staro-Utkinsky Metallurgical Factory was abandoned by its administration the people who were depending on it to invigorate their economy were l...
We live in a world of concrete and tarmac, into which great operas are performed — our daily lives. These cold materials house the life of cities and act as a stage for the moments of connection and action, which bring us together or tear us apart. Using these concrete backdrops Gabor K...
Ask yourself, how much envy can you endure?
Neither wealth nor influence will bring them back again.
Grab this opportunity and live a ‘life fulfilled’.
Wake up every day to a spectacular view of the blue sky romancing the sea...
The empty of valley of this project’s name is actually an incredibly important location to the history of classical art and architecture. Situated near the city of Carrara the valley has provided the materials for some of the most iconic statues that mankind has ever made, like Michelangelo...
We’ve all witnessed our memories evolve over time as they echo around our minds, clouding over details, adding fabrications and subtracting facts, but never before have we had so much visual documentation of our lives. Photographic evidence is available now for most of us within instant reach i...
Nature is an ephemeral entity constantly moving and changing but on a time scale so immense that its transitions take millennia. These alterations of nature are etched into the surface of this planet in the layers of the earth’s crust. The movement of the earth, while ...
Its easy to lose yourself in a virtual world, to inhabit and become the characters and avatars present on the screen in front of you. It’s a case of oversensitive empathy, throwing your mind forward into a simulated other. Feeling and sensing what that small construct of pixels and polygons doe...
Over the past two years Australian photographer Tom Blachford has made repeated trips to Palm Springs in America. During his first trip there he spent his evenings wandering around the suburbs photographing the American modernist houses. Inspired by the poss...
New Orleans: a romantic American city widely understood as a place full of mystery, faith and magic, but also a landscape loaded with history. This friction between the mystique and the everyday intrigued New Orleans based photographer Sophie T. Lvoff (1986), leading to he...
London-based photographer Dave Imms (b. 1985) documents groups we might be quick to stereotype or just simply pass by, such as doner boys or dog walkers. By drawing our attention to these mundane professions of the everyday, he makes the ordinary simply sparkle.
For...
Karōshi, literally meaning death from overwork, is a major problem in Japan. It is a problem mainly faced by the salaryman, a corporate employee who works for the same company since they leave college. They can be expected to work for over 110 hours a week and then in their free time they must e...
The Aether is everything. A heavenly substance breathed by immortal gods it is an invisible but essential catalyst for all reactions between the other four elements. It carries the light from the sun to our eyes and it binds matter together. Or at least that was the theory some 300+ years ago. If...
In the news there has been a lot of coverage about the immigrants entering Europe by boats across the Mediterranean. While the coverage has been focused on the tragedies of the boats that don’t make it across and the deaths of their passengers, there has been little report...
In contemporary China, everything seems gigantic – if not ‘oversized’. There is at least an overly visual contrast between its urban constructions (architectural high-rises that seem to topple each other) and the people that inhabit these spaces. It is by now clear that China is undergoing ...
For her series The Day After Yesterday (TDAY), Moscow-based photographer Natalia Pokrovskaya tries to show how the past is still part of the present – in other words: how today is the day after yesterday. She did this by asking people from former Soviet countries to show ob...
We’re an Empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And While your’re studying that reality – Judiciously, as you will – we will act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We a...
The rural communities of Mordovia in Western Russia are about to lose some of their schools. With too few children to be able to sustain them all, the government will close them next year. Wishing to document these vanishing community hubs Dina Dubrovskaya (...
This series tells the story of a middle-aged couple lost in the modern world, who have chemical addictions, violent disorders and no prospects. ‘What if’ by Karolina Sekula (b. 1984, Poland) works with the layering and juxtaposition of images to explore a disjointed and non-l...
Over five years, Canadian photographer Charles-Frédérick Ouellet captured the life of men working at sea along the coast of the St. Lawrence River, a large river in North America that connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Ouellet says the project evolved over...
In her series Lacuna, American photographer Jordan Tiberio (b. 1992) reflects on the degradation of memories due to the passage of time and the influence of imagination. Focusing in particular on romantic relationships, Tiberio expresses through black and white photographs the wi...
Stateside is an outsiders view of the American Dream. As an English man traveling the American landscape, it appeared to Matt Wilson that the American Dream ended some time ago, and they have been resolutely awake since the 1970s. That is when the industrial...
It almost feels like you are entering a David Lynch film set as you flick through the photographs of How To Disappear Completely by the German Boris Eldagsen. How To Disappear Completely is a meta-series of single images that we can combine in various shapes an...
Since 2010, Christian Stemper is photographically documenting the last remaining individual fishermen and their boats, on the Greek island of Paros. In September 2014, together with a camera crew he captured the work and life of fishermen and boat builders providing a deeper insi...
Since the beginning of human history, the forest has occupied a unique place in our collective imagination. Countless histories and myths involve humankind venturing beyond the structured limits of civilization into the chaotic labyrinth of the woods. Brooklyn-based photogra...
A cat show is a judged event where the cat owners bring their prized pets in order compete for titles. The series Cat Shows, from New York-based photographer Beth Kleinpeter, grew out of her early experiences with showing cattle in the 4-H club as a young gi...
The concept of the ‘sublime’, often experienced in landscapes and natural phenomena, is rooted in an emotional reaction of the viewer. It is a response to outstanding and overwhelming beauty, suddenly revealed, that takes for granted that all pieces combine towar...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the President of Russia since 2012, previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, additionally serving as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. In other words, his political presence in Russia has been a do...
Photographer Julia Borissova (St Petersburg) found some images of Antarctic expeditions and decided to create a series aimed at intersecting with her state of mind. To accomplish this, it was not enough to use only archival photographs of unknown polar explorers—she wanted to be part of ...
What exactly can be read into an image that pairs a child’s fairy wand with a vibrator, which is then set next to an image of a cactus? Or, perhaps you too cringe at a sliced frankfurter, for some unfathomable reason. Jan Maschinski (b. 1983, Germany) channels viscer...
Over the course of a week Delphine Burtin (b. 1974, Switzerland) collected, archived and photographed every object that she would have normally thrown away.
“My photographs can be seen as contemporary vanities rather than as ecological mo...
Dust is the remainder of life, a surplus substance we ignore wherever possible, satisfied to give it consideration only when dealing with its removal. Collecting in corners and underfoot, its contents nevertheless reveal much about the life that goes on in the rooms where it is found. Klaus Pi...
Eight-hundred and ninety meters high in the Swiss Mountains, a couple called Jacques and Marion Granges live and farm the land. Practicing something called ‘Biodynamic Argriculture’ they fuse organic and mineral fertiliser with knowledge of lunar and cosmic cycles in a form of alchemy...
July 6, 2013: a train filled with oil derailed in downtown Lac-Megantic in Quebec, creating an explosion that destroyed much of the area and instantly killed 47 people. The Canadian photographer Michel Huneault (b. 1976) visited Lac-Megantic for the first time 20 hour...
High school reunions are big events in American life. For Sebastian Collett (b. 1973), returning to his hometown in Ohio stirred memories and desires from his youth. Growing up gay in a small town, he was felt that many of life’s possibilities were bey...
Strong, dry winds blow over the desert, carrying along dust clouds. The dust is so dense that visibility is reduced almost to zero. The sun is shining, but it looks like another planet. Dust, a series realised by the French photographer Gabriel de la Chapelle, is captured as an e...
Travelling for 32 hours from Guangzhou to Shanghai, and another 24 hours from Shanghai to Beijing. Visiting the streets of Hong Kong, Beijing and Guangzhou. Talking to people of different jobs, different ages and cultural backgrounds, listening to their stories and taking ph...
American photographer Brian Merriam (b. 1982) looks with aching clarity at the American landscape in an alternative photographic roadtrip. Only occasionally stepping a toe into the romanticism or symbolism of the natural world encountered while travelling, h...
There’s something disconcerting about the portraits made by New York-based photographer Gary Schneider (b. 1954, South Africa). The uncomfortably close positioning of the faces, the awkwardly intense colour tones, the occasional stretched and warped skin … something’s gone aw...
Children used to dream of running away to the circus, a dream that Norma I. Quintana (b. 1954, U.S.A) fulfilled, many times over the course of ten years. She would drive for hundreds of miles to meet up and to photograph the troupe of an American one-ring ci...
”When you meet Vegas once, you feel like you are standing on the edge of a very tall cliff,” said Austrian photographer Stefanie Moshammer. ”If you fall, you fall into a jungle of madness.” Moshammer stayed in Las Vegas for two and a half months last year ...
Simon Menner (b. 1978, Germany) has gained wide recognition for having discovered remarkable photos of East German undercover agents, as he was conducting a two years of research through the Stasi archives. Considering Menner’s career as a conceptual artist, how...
The Marie-Stella-Maris Foundation got in touch with GUP Magazine for a collaboration that would visualize its ideals: facilitating a talented photographer to shoot documentary images and autonomous wo...
Interiors is a selection of vernacular photographs found on the internet and digitally manipulated by London-based photographer Maria Kapajeva (b. 1976, Estonia). In the photos, Russian women copy sexual poses from Western mass media in their homes. While these women tried to sta...
Dust sprinkled on the glass of a photocopier machine while lost to scale gains in stature. Flour can be returned once again to star dust through the intangibility of scale. A trick exploited in these images by Dominique Teufen (b. 1975, Switzerland) whom doesn’t just...
The selfie is an international phenomena and this portfolio by artists Luisa Dörr (1988, Brazil) and Navin Kala (1980, India), shows the other side camera as people contort themselves to get the best shot. Called The Self Promenade it focuses on the avenue of ...
Karan Vaid has a long history with dog shows in his home country of India. Memories of traveling—sometimes for days at a time—in the cold of winter between two dogs in the backseat of his parents’ car, has lead him to revive his interest in the qui...
“When the nights are longer than the days, darkness clouds the senses. Time seems to go slower and the world feels isolated by a thick black haze. The lack of information puts your mind to sleep; a mental hibernation that is brutally awakened by the endless days of summer.”
In her series Memory of Trees, Kathryn Cook (b. 1979) captures images that tell about the Armenian genocide that happened in Turkey in 1915. While the Turkish government denies the genocide, many Armenian families mourn their lost grandparents. In search of ...
French photographer Cédric Delsaux (b. 1974) traces the path of a murderer and imposter in this haunted story of truth and illusion. For almost eighteen years, Frenchman Jean-Claude Romand passed himself off as a doctor and researcher. “Every morning,...
Between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia lies the River Axios sheltered on each side by thick woodland it provides the perfect location for many to illegally enter Greece. Fleeing from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and seeking better lives for themselves and their families they ...
Katarzyna Mazur (b. 1987, Poland) takes us into the ring of the Female Fight Club Berlin, a private club of female wrestling that takes place in a rented room. Founded in 2010 by the fighters Anna Konda and Red Devil, it serves as a revival of a tradition that can be dated back t...
Mythology and history are important facets in this series from American photographer Clare Benson. Her work The Shepherd’s Daughter provides a link to her familial lineage of hunters, tracking back through her father to her grandmother and great grandmother before her.
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In Bangladesh, specifically in the capital Dhaka, there is yet another flourishing film industry. The stories do not change much: boy meets girl, falls in love, bad guy takes girl away and hero fights to get her back. There is always similar climax and a happy ending. People...
South Korean photographer Lee JeeYoung (b. 1983) creates intricate installations in which she photographs herself. In her Seoul studio space of 3 by 6 metres, she builds worlds that express the feelings she’s dealing with at the moment, whether it’s a broken heart, being in love, or hating th...
In her series ‘Letters for Two, and No-One Else’, Ksenia Yurkova (b. 1985, Russia) explores family fictions, false memories and the complexity of identity apart from one’s roots. She constructs her photographic project from her family archive of lette...
Greek photographer Vassilis A. Poularikas (b. 1970) started photographing his family in 2010 when the economic crisis hit Greece. In contrast to the crisis which changed the economy and people’s ideas of the future, the domestic rituals of the family mostl...
Encounters is the first part of a trilogy on the night called Realms Nocturna. Over an eight-year period, Arko Datto explored the end of the night with all its manifest and hidden interpretation. In his images he strives to seek the sense of life that exists withi...
Sophie Green is a 23 years old London based photographer working between portraiture, documentary and fashion photography. For Bangers & Smash Green went to the Wimbleton Stadium, London to document the spectacle of the Stock ...
Brooklyn-based photographer Maggie Shannon documents life on the small island where she grew up, focusing on the relationship that residents have with the ocean, using the popular movie Jaws (shot on Martha’s Vineyard in 1975) as a cultural and visual landmark in...
Japanese photographer Yuichi Ikehata (b. 1975) creates pictures to express the border between reality and fiction. In An Observer’s Report the photographer tells the story of a character that wanders in the boundary of these two worlds. In the creative process of his work...
Canadian photographer Chad Coombs creates photo collages, which combine analog instant photography with the opportunities of digital image processing through the eyes of a former painter. In order to distract the idea of dreamlike aesthetics Coomb...
Sujata Majumdar is an emerging photographer that seeks to reflect her ‘hybrid’ identity in the landscapes around her. With a background in different cultures, Majumdar’s artistic endeavour emerges from the need to reunite the different sides of herself. Boundary situations ...
Swiss photographer Claudio Rasano (b. 1970, Basel) chases the traces of the former Soviet Union in the city Tbilisi. Rasano is fascinated by the relationship that is build between spaces and the humans that appear in it. In Dosoliated Tbilisi the photographer recognise...
On the emergency exit stairways of a shopping mall, Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek captured the proud community of Bodybuilders transforming themselves into their stage outfit. The series was shot during the World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Vienna 2014 and...
East of the Sun, West of the Moon is a collaborative series between photographers Gregory Halpern and Ahndraya Parlato, made on the solstices and equinoxes of 2012 and 2013. Named after a Norwegian folk tale, Halpern explains of the concept:...
As a woman brought up in China, photographer Pixy Yijun Liao (b. 1979) grew up thinking that the person she would love would be her protector, her mentor, someone older and more mature than she was. Yet she ended up meeting Moro, who is five years younger than she is. Because of ...
Eyes as Big as Plates is an ongoing collaborative venture between photographers Riitta Ikonen (Finland) and Karoline Hjorth...
Animals, not represented as beastly, noble, or as props to illustrate human life, but as part of our everyday world, have always been important elements in the work of Robin Schwartz (1957, USA). Together with her daughter Amelia, Schwartz plays out and expl...
