Byron Smith: Mosul Offensive 2016

Nearly two years since the Islamic State took the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the Iraqi Army launched an offensive to wrest the city back from the insurgency in October of 2016. While the forward push of the Iraqi Security Forces has slowed down after a month of fighting,...

Chiara Raffo: The Wolfsschanze

The Wolfsschanze was the most famous and most used Führer Haupt Quartier of Hitler, who spent a lot of time there to coordinate the troops during the invasion of Russia. Wolfsschanze is derived from "Wolf", a self-adopted nickname of Hitler. The top secret, high security site was in the Masurian...

PhotoBiography: David Maisel

David Maisel (born in New York, NY in 1961) is an American photographer and visual artist whose works explore vestiges and remnants of civilizations both past and present. His work is exhibited internationally and is collected in major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA and the Victoria and...

Andrea and Magda: Sinai Park

Egypt has largely bet on the tourist industry (around 12% of the GDP), and for the Sinai region it is nearly all of the economy that is based on tourism. A risky bet, since as soon as political tensions occur, it is the entire region that is deeply affected. The...

Sayan Hazra: Ghost Town

This is a reportage which depicts the consequences of natural disaster on civil population. Dhanushkodi, Tamil Nadu, has the only land border between India and Sri Lanka which is one of the smallest in the world-just 50 yards in length on a shoal in Palk Strait. Before the 1964 cyclone,...

Dasha Chegarovskaya: The Aliens

First of all, this project is about sensations: among them are vulnerability, self-destruction, being hurtfully beautiful. Project is about beauty which is the power and the destructiveness at the same time for those fragile girls it belongs to. It seems the images in the photos ask for help from those...

Jennifer Garza-Cuen: Rabun

About her "Rabun" project says Jennifer: Many years ago I left America to travel the world. I spent over a decade doing just that and in the process experienced first-hand the often arresting disparity between our perceptions (made up of memory and myth) and reality (which seems to lie somewhere...

Andrey Semenov: Invasion

Earth equally soaks up temple and shit. Close your eyes for a minute, and cities surrounding you will disappear. So-called artefacts, like buildings, highways, airports or shopping malls, which are considered to be the proof of superiority of certain species of this planet – all of them remind of a...

Linus Escandor II: Philippines’ War on Drugs

Death has been knocking on Filipinos' doors since Rodrigo Roa Duterte became President of the Philippines on June 30, 2016. He vowed to become "The Punisher" of criminals, drug lords, pushers and addicts. Death often knocked in slum areas where the country's poorest of the poor live. Hands of so-called...

Interview with documentary photographer Jessica Auer

Jessica Auer is a Canadian photographer and visual artist who works between Montréal, Québec and Seydisfjördur, Iceland. Her work is broadly concerned with the study of landscapes as cultural sites, focusing on themes that connect history, place, journey and cultural experience. In the last decade, she has completed over a...