Says Vlad: Every hour in Russia, 10 people become infected with HIV. Today, our country ranks third in the world in terms of the number of new cases of infection (after South Africa and Nigeria). A million Russians are HIV-positive. Irkutsk region is confidently among the first in terms of...
Matthieu Litt: Tidal Horizon
Text by Darren Campion. If today we are more familiar than ever with the large-scale cycles and processes of the natural world, this is due not only to advances in scientific knowledge, but also to the fact that these cycles seem to have been interrupted and destabilised largely through human...
Ioanna Natsikou: Filter Object Series
Filter Object Series question our stereotypical perceptions of the female representation. Drawing a thin line between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the imagined and the real, fantasy and representation was part of a self conscious process. Tactility, visual puns, light and color are combined to trigger fantasy and ambiguity. These...
Guillaume Hebert: Updated Landscape
This series of a hybrid genre combines pieces of modern landscapes with, in the background, landscapes that come from old and famous paintings. The name of this series is a notion that tells us about the changes created by urbanisation in our modern societies. This work invites us to compare...
Natalia Drepina: The Night Garden of the Subconscious Mind
About her project says Natalia: This is a conceptual project about my inner garden. A place where I keep fragile memories of the past and lost moments. The suffocating city slowly destroys the nature around me. All that remains is memories, dried flowers and dead insects. I'm trying to create...
Denis Davydenko: Joseon
Joseon - this is how the inhabitants call their country. In Korean it means "Country of morning freshness". Outside its borders it is known as North Korea. Complicated, contradictory, shrouded in myths and legends in media publications. It is the only country on the Earth in which there is classical...
Richard Le Manz: Habitat, Beyond Photography
Habitat, Beyond Photography is a conceptual work that seeks to call for reflection on the compatibility between the natural wealth of the planet and progress dependent on the consumption of fossil fuels. Internal elements of the engines, such as intake and exhaust valves, camshafts, etc; they interact with other everyday...
Anna Miroshnichenko: Femininity Vulgaris
Says Anna: My concepts of femininity were being developed in my childhood when I was observing my mother. My mother is a large wardrobe with an infinite number of underwear, clothes, jewellery. Lots of accessories to seem more attractive, slimmer, more beautiful. My mother is dozens of bottles with perfume...
Camille Gharbi: A Place to Live
Those pictures were taken over spring 2016 in what was called the Calais Jungle. They display some of the constructions that were built by refugees and association workers in the slum, which sheltered several thousands of people since 2014 and was dismantled in October 2016 on government order. The constructions...