Blackpool on England‘s northwest coast is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the UK. But despite an increasing number of tourists, the town‘s economic and social situation is precarious: Hundreds of hotels are in a state of decay, the unemployment and drug abuse rates are among the highest...
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Natalia Dana: Tzniut
“Tzniut means modesty, dignity, demureness. It is the way to embellish the human being, hiding what only in intimacy shall be revealed.” - The Secret of Jewish Femininity. Says Natalia: In the Jewish religion, modesty is a means to create privacy. The veiling of married Jewish woman’s hair is motivated...
Batuhan Keskiner: Wonderland
This series includes the artist’s nighttime photographs taken in a small suburb in Norway for six months. The town is unfathomably different from the artist’s habits, daily practices, and the crowded urban setting he was born into, and unrealistically peaceful. It is, almost, a Wonder Land. But the artist takes...
Philippe Braquenier: Earth Not a Globe
The continents float on an endless ocean which somehow has a layer of rock and fire underneath it. Earth is a disc under a glass dome and the lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic ocean, bordered by a 150-foot-tall circular...
Julia Bezhanova: Disintegration
Reflecting on the themes of motherhood and bodily fatigue, Julia created a series of works of self-portraits called “disintegration”. For this surrealistic story, Julia created soft sculptures and collages from photographs of self-portraits. The visual inspiration for the project was the work of Hieronymus Bosch. In her work, Julia likes...
Arseniy Neskhodimov: Prozac
Says Arseniy: This is an ongoing project that I started two years ago. I called it Prozac after a famous antidepressant prescribed for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Most people, including myself, suffer from depression every so often. I have tried taking medication in the past but they didn’t...
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Steven Burton: Skin Deep – Looking Beyond the Tattoos
Skin Deep is a portrait series that seeks to understand the impacts tattoos have on former gang members and people trying to escape the gang life. How we as a society judge ex-gang members with tattoos and ultimately how they judge themselves. Portraits are taken off the participants and their...
Gianfilippo De Rossi: Urban Landscape
Says Gianfilippo: Urban Landscape is a project that I have been carrying out for about 3 years. It arises from the need to find new ideas in the composition and architecture of the city of Los Angeles. In the megalopolis of over 10 million people the challenge is to find...
Silas Bahr: Semjase’s Friend
We see and we believe - despite knowing about possible manipulations. Almost since the beginning of photography, photographers use the power of the medium to draw attention to grievances and injustices while others try to abuse this weapon for their own interests. The series"Semjase's Friend" plays with this inherent indexical...