Says Anna-Tia: The female body is linked to beauty and all the expectations that come with it. Throughout visual history, the male view has dominated the perception of female beauty. This subjective notion is usually linked to culture and upbringing; despite globalization, beauty standards differ from place to place. These preferences...
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Chris Bierl: City Tales From Frunze
Says Chris: In winter 2017/18 I spent almost three months in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. I lived close to the west banks of the small river Alamedin. The suburban part of Bishkek starts on the east bank and with it another way of life, social class and cityscape. My interest lied in...
Flavio Aquino: Urban Interference
Urban Interference is an experimental project with artistic narratives about the influence and occupation of urbanization on urban space and the author 's interference in this occupation. An archaeological action of the author himself, who throughout the year photographed various spaces and situations of the city of Natal. Using the...
Sameer Al-Doumy: Life Under War
In the war, life has a different meaning, everything about the normality will just disappear. The daily routine is definitely abnormal, even if it seems normal for people who live there. Every day, bombs fall, people die, buildings will be destroyed. The reality of war cannot be denied, but however,...
Mohammad Baghal Asghari: Forgotten Dried Land
Iran is one of the country that will face with the problem of drought. The cities of this country, and especially its center, suffer from low rainfall and drought. Kerman province (11.5% of the country's total area) is one of these provinces and is located on the south east side of...
Alicja Brodowicz: Visual Exercises
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.” - Alice WalkerI photograph the human body – the microcosm. Its’ fragments: hair, scars, texture of skin, wrinkles. I am interested in individual particularities; I look for distinguishing features...
Louise Amelie & Aljaz Fuis: Sole Harlem
Sole Harlem. The one and only, unique and pure – just Harlem, and nothing else. The title introduces Harlem as a magical place of longing that only works and lives within, and cannot carry its characteristics to the outside world. The words do not only convey the uniqueness of this...
Mehrdad Afsari: Forty – A Treatise on Terrene Traverse
This project inspired by an ancient Persian Philosophers: Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi's treaties on "Light". Landscapes of different geographical areas in Iran have been photographed with medium format digital camera. Statement of the series is a retell text according to Suhrawardi's treaties: Where these two lines begin is a point...
Juan Carlos: Young Days, Dangerous Times
"In this country young people are like the dawn, they do not last long." -Roque Dalton Nowadays is a menace to be young in El Salvador, the country is living dangerous times due to the gang violence which has had an impact on society for decades. Gangs are targeting and...
Sutanta Aditya: Human – Wild Sumatran Orangutan Conflicts
Based on data from the proliferation of conflicts between protected wildlife, especially wild elephants and the Sumatran Orangutan with humans continue to occur. Based on data from WWF-Indonesia study shows that the population of Sumatran elephants increasingly growing concern today, in 25 years, the Sumatran elephant has lost about 70%...