Says Pio: “Out of the Blue” portrays the secret encounters of two lovers destined to be together and yet cursed to be apart. Growing on the edge of a man-made cliff-top promenade, these trees and shrubs can never reach the ever-moving waters of the sea upon which they gaze. For...
Elliott Verdier: A Shaded Path
This is the story of a former Soviet republic landlocked in central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, home to six million people, esteemed for its nomadic traditions, its yurts, its horses, its breathtaking mountainous landscapes and steppe… It holds a less perceptible decor, less alluring perhaps, distant from the stereotypes and necessary embellishments...
Sharbendu De: Imagined Homeland
Imagined Homeland (2013-19) is a seven-year-long surrealistic exploration of the mythical life of the indigenous Lisu tribe living inside the dense forests of Namdapha National Park on the India-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Living in these forests is not easy. Traditionally, hunter-gatherers and now settling into subsistence farming, they...
Julien Coquentin: Tropics
He is an old man whose body I wash every morning. A room without soul, silence, an island. I do not know if he speaks my language, Mr. Yu was born in China. He smiles at me from time to time and seems to understand my simple orders. His wife...
Jillian Freyer: 42 Wayne
Says Jillian: These images work to explore the notion of experience as touch and emotional and physical endurance performed through female bodies. Witnessed events, staged performances and instinct serve as a way to seek new intimacies between me and my subjects. Texture and surface become an important role in their...
Austin Irving: Show Caves
Show Caves is a collection of large format photographs that explores the anthropocentric tendencies of modern tourism seen in domestic and international show caves. "Show Caves" are natural caves that are managed and modified by government or commercial organizations to accommodate tourists. The objective of this body of work is...
Ioanna Sakellaraki: The Truth Is In The Soil
About her project says Ioanna: After my father passed away three years ago, I returned to my homeland Greece and followed my mother’s behaviours as a believer seeking for shelter in the wider system of religious traditions and cultural beliefs in a society functioning on that basis. Photography transformed itself...
Robin Hinsch: WAHALA
The Project Wahala, was shot in July and August 2019 in Nigeria. Especially in Lagos, Port Harcourt and the Niger Delta. The Niger Delta covers 20,000 km within wetlands of 70,000 km formed primarily by sediment deposition. Home to 20 million people and 40 different ethnic groups, this floodplain makes...
International Photography Grant 2019 – Congratulations to the Winners!
We are delighted to announce the Winners of our 2019 International Photography Grant! International Photography Grant awards $1000 annually to the applicant with the most inspirational photographic idea to support visual project of the artist. The 2019 International Photography Grant received 3308 submissions from which 263 were awarded with Nominee...
Vladimir Seleznev: Dreamscape
Can the perception of space be the source of a particular emotional experience? Many of us keep memories of thrilling encounters with space and distance. Dreamscape is a landscape between scenery and abstraction, the idea of space itself free from familiar objects and natural phenomena, images of reality with no...