Seestadt, north of Vienna - one of the largest European urban development project of recent decades. Where fox and hare said good night just a few years ago, skyscrapers and office complexes shoot from the ground like mushrooms. 240 hectares are to be developed over the next ten years. This...
Luana Rigolli: In Aqua Salus
The ancient Romans knew the thermal springs flowing under Salsomaggiore, but the doctor Lorenzo Berzieri was the first one to understand the great curative properties of that water, in 1839. It was the beginning of a great success, based on the new thermal tourism, unprecedented for this small and rural...
David Magee: Outside – Photo Book
David Magee will present his first public exhibition of landscape and seascape photographs at Herrick Gallery in February 2018. The exhibition showcases a retrospective body of work spanning twenty-five years, which will coincide with the release of his limited edition book Outside, published by Concentric Editions. This beautifully printed and...
Carine Thévenau: Seasonal Abandonment of Imaginary Worlds – Photo Book
‘Seasonal Abandonment of Imaginary Worlds’ is a photographic collection of aging Japanese playgrounds, captured by photographer Carine Thévenau, in rural Japan. The playscapes are either abandoned or empty due to seasonal snowfall, but the absence of life creates a space, ripe for the imagination. Although the playgrounds may arouse a...
PhotoBiography: Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer noted for photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers—and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal. Her work has been described as consisting of formal manipulation characterized by...
George Curzon: Cymbeline’s Child
Imogen, Shakespeare's heroine in Cymbeline, King of Britain, overcomes adversity in her quest for the truth, and in turn discovers herself. The portrayal of Imogen in Cymbeline is that of ideal womanhood. The challenges she faces test her character and her relationships throughout this physical and psychological journey. Nervous innocence,...
Ranita Roy: Flood in West Bengal, India
The floods of West Bengal have an exceptional peculiarity. Though the state receives heavy rainfall, yet it’s mostly affected by water from adjoining states or countries. The stagnated condition of the Mahananda river in the Northern region affects Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur, Malda and relatively affected Darjeeling....
Daria Garnik: Gagarin
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...