The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015, when an increasing number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union (EU) to seek asylum, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southern Europe. They came from areas such as Western and South Asia, Africa,...
Interview with fine art photographer Christos J. Palios
Christos J. Palios (Baltimore, MD) is a Greek-American photographer drawn to and intrigued by history, cultural diversity, socioeconomic themes and architecture, and whose work probes ideas of identity and isolation within a variety of environments. He earned his BA from the University of Maryland in Baltimore County. Recently, he was...
Alina Fedorenko: Footprint
Athar Al Nabi is the name of a quarter in the south of Cairo, it is a low income neighborhood, alike a slum where people live in not the best conditions, garbage is a part of the daily sight.In spite of everything people fight for this place, against loosing a...
Hakim Boulouiz: Wax Dolls
Cities are growing day after day. Life is being transformed and accelerated in the middle of modernity. In this context, the urban body is vibrating and experimenting with new adventures. It sneaks between advertising, windows, showcases, colors, prints, shadows and lights. The urban body is reflected and conditioned through architecture....
Helena Falabino: Talk to Us
About her project says Helena: I strongly believe that the way we think about sex work has directly to do with how we perceive sexuality, our own and in general. I used to have an idea of sex work built upon what I knew from mainstream media, that hardly ever makes...
Photochroms of Istanbul from 1890s
Istanbul, historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosphorus strait (which separates Europe and Asia) between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and...
Rielle Oase: Lacking Warmth
About her "Lacking Warmth" project says Rielle: My grandmother’s crocheted hats and scarves at Christmas time were my evidence that I had a good family. These holiday traditions kept by my father’s family repeated themselves until our ritual became stale. We were cheap reproductions of Norman Rockwell’s ideal American family....
Roger Wehrli: Bilbao – Photographs since 1988
In the 1980s, Bilbao, metropolis of the Basque Country in Spain, was considered the country’s most polluted city and its mining and iron industries were in decline. In 1993, seven years after Spain had joined the European Union, a radical transformation was initiated, moving away from manufacturing to service industries...
Interview with fine art photographer Floriane de Lassée
Floriane de Lassée - born in 1977, she lives and works in Paris, France. Website: florianedelassee.com How did you get interested in photography? Do you have an educational artistic background? I always wanted to be a photographer but, I did not know if I was good at it, so I decided...
Sarah Blesener: Toy Soldiers
Over 200,000 youth are currently enrolled in clubs with 10,000 in Moscow. Each club functions independently with their own structures and philosophies. In 2015, a proposed program from the Russian government entitled the “Patriotic Education of Russian Citizens in 2016-2020” called for an eight percent increase in patriotic youth within...