Katerina Shmidtke: People of Taiga

About her project "People of Taiga" says Katerina: This is a project about life in the solitude of taiga - tenacious of life, hardworking, hand in hand people who live in villages far away along Pinega river, being almost cut off from the rest of the world. The development of...

Momo Mustafa: River Erosion

Vola is one of the most affected districts in Bangladesh due to overall climate changes effect. River erosion is the main form of this climate changes effect in Vola. Almost 7% of cultivated land is being vanished every year here. Many houses of this area have gone under river already....

Interview with fine art photographer Ward Roberts

Ward Roberts is an independent conceptual artist who creates exquisitely composed photographs drawing on themes such as the effects of loneliness and isolation in the modern world. The artist’s perspective is fresh and engaging, the sophisticated aesthetic are often contradicted by subtle unscripted moments. A soft drenched colour pallet is...

Photochroms of Tyrol from 1890s

Tyrol is a historical region in the Alps, in northern Italy and western Austria. Photochrom is a process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). The process was...

Mirjana Vrbaski: Verses of Emptiness

Inspired by Byzantine iconography, Verses of Emptiness explores the iconic potential of the photographic portrait. Rather than using the portrait to capture a person’s likeness, Verses of Emptiness asks whether an image of an ordinary person can rise above the portrayed, transcend them, and in doing so reveal a more...

Anna Filipova: Research at the End of the World

Ny-Ålesund is situated on the 79th parallel north on Svalbard archipelago, which makes it the most northerly permanent civilian settlement in the world. It houses the largest laboratory for modern Arctic research in existence. It has a very restricted access both because of the scientific project that are conducted and...

Julien Coquentin: Black Seasons

About Black Seasons series says Julien: I do not know when exactly this series started. Without a doubt not in the first picture. I think all this goes back much further, beyond my own memory. Some images which tumble out: a priest dressed in a long black cape, walking in...

Fulvio Bugani: Twilight

The ancient traditions and the call of the ancestors are the forces that drive some populations to stay connected to inhospitable places, which they perceive as part of their group identity. The seasonal return to these remote areas, is a return to tradition, a rediscover of their roots and a...

Alexandra Polina: Myths, Masks and Subjects

The protagonists of the photo series are members of visible minorities who were born, raised and educated in Germany. These images deal with a social gap created by prejudiced stigmatized view and use clichéd folkloric settings and common stereotypes to question it. The result is a collage of individual experiences, based...