Says Alfonso: I have built a filter made of selenite – crystalline mineral gypsum – and used it to document the vestiges of the old town of Gessopalena (Italy), whose habitations are dug into the gypsum rock itself. Destroyed by a quake in 1933 and razed to the ground again...
Ronghui Chen: Freezing Land
Says Ronghui: My project Freezing Land is a series of photos made, on the road, across northeastern China’s countryside that mixes landscape photography with environmental portraits. It is a story about the shrinking cities in northeastern China and their lonely young people. I grew up in southern China with warm...
Olga Kulaga: The Lost Town
In the 1930-es in USSR most Mologa-Sheksna interfluve area got caught in a flowage during the construction of the Rybinsk hydroelectric power station. Town Mologa and 700 closest villages landed at the bottom of Rybinsk Reservoir. People had to abandon their habitable and some of them moved with their wood...
Jennifer Loeber: GYRLE
"In my mind, my own self-image, is the picture of Jennifer and some of the other girls I knew and admired back then. Girls I desperately wanted to be like. Wishing every day that I could be one of those awkward teenage girls instead of the awkward teenage boy I...
Alessandro Gallo: With the Best of Intentions
Dozens of incomplete or uninhabited buildings stand guards of the village - Cagnano Varano - suspended between the sea, the lake and the mountains. We could call it the town of unfulfilled hopes, because most of these buildings were built by numerous citizens who emigrated abroad in the 50s. Thus,...
Kaitlyn Danielson: Of Breath And Dust
The breath is our life source; its’ cycle resembling a miniature life and death, appearing and disappearing in a constant, undulating rhythm. The breath awakens us into this world and remains a steadfast companion until our bodies reject its’ presence with one, final exhale. Says Kaitlyn: The work in my...
Kati Bruder: WE – THE REST OF US
Says Kati: Inspired by Beltempo’s text, I initiated several visits to housing communities, searching for the relationship between social connectivity and rooms for inhabitation. The US that defines communities, is a kind of social sculpture which one belongs to, but which at the same time looks out towards the OTHER....
Marica Kolcheva: Meteorologica
Says Marica: By hybridizing documentary and fictional narrative strategies, I investigate the relationship between modern meteorological science and weather modification experiments and earlier modes of knowledge about the weather. I put my focus on process of magic-becoming-science and open a dialoge space between the past, the present and the future....
Michał Konrad: Birds and People
Birds are like humans, and people are like birds. They are smart and stupid. They are nice and ugly. They are full and hungry. They are gentle and predatory. They are singing and shouting. People like birds can fly. Birds fly to warm countries. People are flying away in their...
Bérangère Fromont: Except the Clouds
Says Berangere: Athens is an oxymoron city. Its flamboyant mythological heritage coexists with its dark and dramatic political-economic situation. Its sun shines with a thousand lights but crushes its streets. It is a blinding light that reveals its violence and its twilight faces. And yet we feel a life force...