Lima is the biggest city in the world built on a desert, so when you cross the topological frontieres of the city, after the barriadas (peruvian township usually constructed on the mounts of the city) the desert reappear. In the north of the Panamericana road wich cross the wole city...
Emanuele Amighetti: Unrecognized Nation, Forgotten War
The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been a long one. The troubles started in 1988, escalating into a full-scale war when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. It left 65,000 ethnic Armenians and 40,000 ethnic Azeris displaced. Today, soldiers are still defending their positions over the frontline, despite an...
Laura Gwenaëlle Berson: Percipere
Percipere is, in a way, an image of the experimentation of a metaphysical doubt in a concrete way. The construction of reality, whether internal or external, goes through our five senses. Since these senses are disorganized, our perception changes. This phenomenon, called derealization can occur for example during trauma, prolonged...
Xavier Blondeau: Presence Obscure
There exist places or situations in which, despite the absence of any human entity, a faint presence can still be felt beyond objects. This ‘shadowy’ presence, like the barely perceptible persistence of a recent past, gives things another dimension. As if they needed a human stamp to exist. Thus, the...
Sébastien Bridot: Nowhereland
Nowhereland is a concentrate of images from different potentially antithetical geographical places, which, confronted with each other, form a surreal, intriguing, unique world, nevertheless bearing witness to a multiple universality - the Nowhereland. Through this mixture of heterogeneous landscapes and architectures, natural and anthropic elements, presences and absences, Nowhereland is...
Elizabeth Casasola: No Title
Strange views are what we see of others that we begin to forget even though there is an extensive geographic catalog of bodily events. The body as a language, like any other language contains ambiguous meanings and histories, just as the language is short to refer to the meanings and...
Sadra Bagheri: Where is This Place?
Says Sadra: Our memories are not as honest as they appear. Human brain is not neutral about recreating memories and is always changing them according to new information it gets. When you think of a scene that you have memorized, your brain won't give you an exact image of it...
Debsuddha Banerjee: Towards the No Man’s Land, They Say
Ghoramara, Mousuni and Botkhali are those islands located in Gangetic delta region of West Bengal, India, has been disappearing, triggered since late 1960 but after Aila storm on 2009 has instigated the rate of erosion over the coastal region in India like Sundarban, world’s largest delta. The gradual engulfing by...
Javier Alvarez: PREDIO
During the nineties, the working class and social groups began squatting in abandoned buildings in São Paulo’s (Brazil) downtown. Today, there are more than 40 different movements throughout the country, of families, immigrants and/or workers squatting in hundreds of abandoned properties. On the thirteen floors of the Marconi squat, nearly...
Aleksandra Bardas: In the Desert of the Aral Sea
The project "In the desert of Aral Sea" deals with desiccation of the Aral Sea, its impact on ecology of the surrounding areas and on the culture and traditions of the Karakalpak people on the part of Uzbekistan. "Regions of Uzbekistan were hit by a toxic saltstrom on May 26....