About her "Lacking Warmth" project says Rielle: My grandmother’s crocheted hats and scarves at Christmas time were my evidence that I had a good family. These holiday traditions kept by my father’s family repeated themselves until our ritual became stale. We were cheap reproductions of Norman Rockwell’s ideal American family....
Roger Wehrli: Bilbao – Photographs since 1988
In the 1980s, Bilbao, metropolis of the Basque Country in Spain, was considered the country’s most polluted city and its mining and iron industries were in decline. In 1993, seven years after Spain had joined the European Union, a radical transformation was initiated, moving away from manufacturing to service industries...
Interview with fine art photographer Floriane de Lassée
Floriane de Lassée - born in 1977, she lives and works in Paris, France. Website: florianedelassee.com How did you get interested in photography? Do you have an educational artistic background? I always wanted to be a photographer but, I did not know if I was good at it, so I decided...
Sarah Blesener: Toy Soldiers
Over 200,000 youth are currently enrolled in clubs with 10,000 in Moscow. Each club functions independently with their own structures and philosophies. In 2015, a proposed program from the Russian government entitled the “Patriotic Education of Russian Citizens in 2016-2020” called for an eight percent increase in patriotic youth within...
PhotoBiography: Peter Bialobrzeski
Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961 in Wolfsburg, West Germany) is a photographer and a professor of photography at the University of the Arts Bremen in Germany. Bialobrzeski originally studied politics and sociology in Germany before he studied photography at University of Essen and at the London College of Printing (now University...
Vinci Weng: My Wonderlands
In my experience in the practice of contemporary photography, it is fundamentally related to traditional skills, computer technology and notions of painting, which communicate new ways of seeing and thinking. The photographic project focuses on the re-thinking of ‘cinematographic’ picture in terms of the sceneries of Eastern and Western paintings,...
Walter Mittelholzer Revisited – From the Walter Mittelholzer Photo Archive
Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937) was a pioneering aviator and cofounder of Switzerland’s legendary airline Swissair. From his earliest flights, he was also an avid aerial photographer, and his spectacular views of the Swiss Alps have been popular ever since he began publishing them in the 1920s. Mittelholzer also participated in expeditions...
Natela Grigalashvili: Book of my Mother
My mother was born in the beginning of World War II in a small village. By this time her father was already in war, from where he didn’t return. She was ten years old when her mother died. She was hit by a train. I remember her saying once: “I...
Christian Vogt: The Longer I Look
Christian Vogt is one of Switzerland’s most important contemporary artists. For nearly fifty years, he has engaged in a complex dialogue with his central medium of expression—photography—rendering a new image language that puts him ahead of his time. Each image is a projection that invites many different reactions depending on...
Interview with fine art photographer Damián Ucieda Cortés
Damián Ucieda Cortés was born in 1980 in A Coruña, Spain. In 2004 he completed his studies in Ilustration from Escola Massana from Barcelona. He graduated with a BA Hons degree in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007. His work has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as Moscow...