The triumphal and tragically broken life of Yuri Gagarin - the first human to journey into outer space – made him the cult hero of the Soviet mythology and the central figure of scientific and atheistic propaganda of the USSR. Space exploration was one of the priority directions of domestic...
Karin Crona: Duckface
This is the meeting between a series of nude self portraits and a box of women's magazines found at a garage sale. Published in 1967-69, their pages show the kind of society I was born into - naked as a baby girl, with no idea where I had landed. I...
Markus Kaesler: Shadows on Concrete
The texture of the material concrete creates in interaction with light spaces, that seem to be free of geographical determinants. Photographs emerge, that may not be located, and, through the absence of any cultural affiliation, contain the freedom to be viewed without prejudices. They cross the borders in our heads...
Marcus Wiechmann: The Yazidis – Where to Go From Here?
The religion of the Yazidis is one of the oldest religious traditions that exists today and gets practised since more than 4000 years. Their belief is monotheistic and they pray for the sun and elements as a natural wonder, created by God for their benefit. That is why they see...
Pavel Volkov: Playing with Darkness
About his project says Pavel: Sergey Mangos story for me is an example of outstanding human strength and power - not only physical but also spiritual. For the first time I saw Sergey near one Moscow underground station in a rush hour. He was standing near the entrance, not very...
Andrea Di Martino: Chateaux!
In China red brings good luck. Maybe this is why the Chinese are drinking more wine than before, the vineyards are increasing and wineries are growing visibly. France with its "chateaux" is the reference model: large vineyards in farms dominated by ancient castles. To copy this successful iconography, in recent...
Jose David Valiente: Insomnia
Insomnia is a ongoing project that has been developed during the past 2 years. Due the economic crisis I was forced to move back to my hometown. Coming back to a village, where there is nothing to do, where everyone knows you and it seems to controls your life, made...
Nadav Ariel: The Face of the Tribe
Says Nadav: This is an ongoing project, that has began few years ago, when I started to “collect” young Israelis, who gave me a strong impression or influenced me in some way, and photograph them in various parts of the country. Through the filming process I seek to better understand their...
Gleb Simonov: Nevertheless
About his Nevertheless series says Gleb: The key properties that I focus on are small movements, silence, voluntary immobility, inanimate observation, pointing. It's an attempt to create a proposition, in which the barely visible harmonies of the outside are suggested to be the driving qualities through which the meaningfulness of the world...
Christian Werner: Rubble and Delusion
With the fall of Aleppo, the regime of Bashar Assad once again controls the country's second-largest city. But is reconciliation possible in the country? A journey through the dictator's rump state, to have a deeper look in the everyday life in Assad's Syria. Christian Werner is a freelance multimedia/photojournalist based...