After Zone1, Anti-Humans and Afro-Fem, Pol Kurucz is launching his fourth supercharged series, Poor Billionaires, inspired by the deep social void in Brazil. The only glimpse rich and poor Brazilians have of each other’s lives is through the distorted prism of soap operas and social media. A miner will never...
Kashef Chowdhury: Dhaka. Memories or Lost
Upon setting foot in Dhaka, it becomes clear that this is a city steeped in history. One of the oldest settlements in Bangladesh, it is today among the largest cities in the world, and rapid, often unplanned, urbanization has vastly outpaced sustainability, threatening the historic buildings and communities that make...
Vassilis Konstantinou: Unintentional Sculptures
Vassilis Konstantinou's project under the tittle' unintentional sculptures' was realized during the years 2015-1017 within the suburban landscape of Attica, which has gone through a great deal of changes due to the economic crisis. The photographer explores the landscape and decides to focus and highlight the man-made constructions that reveal...
Interview with fine art photographer Ákos Major
Akos Major - born in Gyöngyös, Hungary, graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design (MOME) in Budapest, with a degree in Visual Communications. He worked for ten years as a senior art director in a Budapest-based Publicis ad-agency. Now he is working as a freelance designer. Website: akosmajor.com How did...
PhotoBiography: Tobias Madörin
Tobias Madörin, born 1965 in Basel, lives and works in Zurich. His travels through Europe, South and North America, as well as Asia and Africa have led him to the most diverse places where the photos arose for his long-running project Topos. Since 1990, Tobias Madörin has regularly exhibited in...
Stefania Prandi: Tomato Women
Immigrant female workers are sexually harassed and coerced in greenhouses and fields housing Italian vegetables, which are grown to be exported internationally. The Italian media have focused their attention on the exploitative conditions endured by the immigrant workers in the Italian greenhouses but haven't considered enough the gender issues, mostly...
Photochrom postcards from 1900s
Photochrom is a process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856–1924), an employee of the Swiss...
Bram Tackenberg: Living Room Portraits
About his project Bram says: "In 2015 I've started making this series, which is still in progress. I've been cruising the Netherlands visiting Dutch households in diverse compositions, photographing them in their own living rooms. Due to the solemn approach and seeming lack of emotion, the portraits tend to transcend...
Simone Sapienza: United States of Vietnam
“United States of Vietnam” is a project that reflects on the current economical and social aspects of Vietnam in comparison with its history and society. The project represents Vietnam under its recent Western guise, enhancing the fascination for the consumeristic culture through past, present and future of the Vietnamese society....
Roland Iselin: Unguided Road Trip
Unguided Road Trip is photographer Roloand Iselin’s latest long-term project. Since 2011, he has been travelling his native Switzerland and his adopted second home country, the US, documenting how in either place the landscape is “furnished” with all sorts of structures and objects. Bus stops, public toilets, gas stations. We...