PhotoBiography: Alec Soth

Alec Soth (born 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis, who makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners...

Julia Kaczorowska: WZORY

Says Julia: WZORY is about people, who like me and like 1-2% of the world’s population, has vitiligo, a condition by which the skin loses pigment in certain areas. WZORY, which in Polish means both 'designs' and 'role model', is my chronicle of and tribute to people with vitiligo, who...

Vintage Japanese Tattoos (1860-1890)

Irezumi is any of several forms of traditional Japanese tattooing, along with certain modern forms derived from or inspired by these. Tattooing for spiritual and decorative purposes in Japan is thought to extend back to at least the Jōmon or paleolithic period (approximately 10,000 BC). Some scholars have suggested that...

Can Dagarslani: Identities

In his series Identities, Can Dağarslanı portrayed two girls, making them both an integral part together with the diverse architectural elements. The search for `identity` is the point of origin of the series. For this series two identical and inseparable young women dressed and positioned in the same way, who...

Luca Quagliato: Worst Case Scenario

About his project says Luca: I imagined a deserted city, abandoned by its inhabitants. The worst-case scenario in which the economic crisis has forced citizens to leave the place where they live. It's a work in between the documentation of reality (in some photographs the buildings photographed are truly abandoned,...

Natascia Aquilano: Sons of Maidan

Ukraine's eastern periphery is today nothing more than a heap of destroyed buildings, where people live daily with the roar of mortars and exploding grenades because of the conflict started in 2014 in Maidan Square that still continues to hurt the nation. About her project "Sons of Maidan" says Natascia:...

Diogo Montes: All Paths Lead to NYC

"All Paths Lead to NYC" is a visual tribute to the city where all cultures converge. An intriguing art experiment where the lines between reality and imagination get (literally) blurred. A new way of exploring the saturated and overly depicted city of New York, inciting curiosity and giving the viewer...