Rudiments is a series of photographs in which several objects are arranged in particular ways with the intention of displacing their usual purpose and re-signifying them through the juxtaposition of their elemental qualities: size, shape, density, geometry, opacity, color, texture. The project stems from an interest in the sculptural and...
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Anton Polyakov: Pioneers Palace
Says Anton: For 27 years, Transnistria - a narrow strip of land between Ukraine and Moldova, a length of about 125 miles - has the status of an unrecognized state. The subjects of my story are young people who were born and grew up on this territory. I belong to...
Vesa Pihanurmi: Skate Calligraphy
Says Vesa : Skate Calligraphy is a series of abstract images that I've created by photographing tracks of ice skaters on the surface of a frozen pond in Espoo, Finland. It's actually quite rare that there are even conditions that make it possible to shoot these kind of images. On...
Raffaele Petralla: Cosmodrome – Waste From The Sky
On the border with the Arctic Circle. Far north of Russia. 300 km from Arkhangelsk. Restricted area. Here Inhabitants - who base their own survival on hunting and fishing activities – use to build sledges and boats with fragments of space rockets. They also recover and sell all the other...
Valentyn Odnoviun: The Process
The project presents photographs that depicts pieces of discarded photo paper which were found in the former KGB “Patarei” prison photography darkroom in Tallinn, Estonia. Photography in the context of KGB prisons was mainly used as a documenting tool and was very controlled, capturing the subject, and recasting him as...
Sergey Nazarov: Against
A new surge of protest activity covered almost all regions of Russia in 2017. The number of participants in protest actions was different depending on the regions, but undoubtedly, these actions can be called the most numerous and large-scale protests since 2012. Tens of thousands of people came to the...
Emmanuel Monzon: Urban Sprawl – Emptiness
Says Emmanuel: I like to play/'mix' two approaches: The codes of the new topographics and the concept of "in between-two states" inspired by the anthropologist Marc Auge under the name of non-places. I like transitional places, like intersections or passages from one world to another, such as from a residential...
Joanna Mrowka: Broniszow, Far From The City
This is ongoing project. Broniszów, a small post-farmer village in the Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland. The public bus doesn't run there every day. The brickyard being the main workplace for the village residents was closed many years ago. The school was also closed. "Dad sometimes goes abroad." Casual jobs allow for...
Marie Mons: Aurore Colbert
Marie Mons spent three winter months in a small village in the eastern fjords of Iceland, where she became Aurore. She embodied her character allowing surprise to play a large part, evoking the winter, its polar nights and the rhythm that it induces through a great shamanic ritual resembling a...
Venetia Menzies: 21st Century Bedouin
'21st Century Bedouin' is a documentary project that explores how nomadic life in Algeria has been radically transformed over the past century, through events such as French colonisation, civil war and mass urban migration. The project examines this change through the lens of an individual family, whose story is told...