Private car ownership has been forbidden in Albania until 1991, when the Iron Curtain Fall and Capitalism replaced socialism. This kind of physical withdrawal from an object of desire is one reason for the huge amount of car washs that can be found in Albania. Not only owning a car...
Amadeus Waldner: First Steps of a City
Seestadt, north of Vienna - one of the largest European urban development project of recent decades. Where fox and hare said good night just a few years ago, skyscrapers and office complexes shoot from the ground like mushrooms. 240 hectares are to be developed over the next ten years. This...
Luana Rigolli: In Aqua Salus
The ancient Romans knew the thermal springs flowing under Salsomaggiore, but the doctor Lorenzo Berzieri was the first one to understand the great curative properties of that water, in 1839. It was the beginning of a great success, based on the new thermal tourism, unprecedented for this small and rural...
Markus Kaesler: Shadows on Concrete
The texture of the material concrete creates in interaction with light spaces, that seem to be free of geographical determinants. Photographs emerge, that may not be located, and, through the absence of any cultural affiliation, contain the freedom to be viewed without prejudices. They cross the borders in our heads...
Andrea Di Martino: Chateaux!
In China red brings good luck. Maybe this is why the Chinese are drinking more wine than before, the vineyards are increasing and wineries are growing visibly. France with its "chateaux" is the reference model: large vineyards in farms dominated by ancient castles. To copy this successful iconography, in recent...
Tony McAteer: City +
Both thrilling and frightening, massive growth of cities is one of the global features of our time. These photographs look at striking city developments in regions that have been at the forefront of this growth. The photographs include brand new skylines, extensive landscaping, ambitious infrastructure, sprawling housing and extravagant architecture....
Tomasz Lewandowski: Auschwitz – Ultima Ratio of the Modern Age
According to a duo of photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the form of the industrial construction is determined only by its function. The designing logic of the architecture in the concentration camp Auschwitz was, that the forms of the buildings were absolutely subordinated to their function as instruments of the...
Tiago Coelho: Joy Resort
The small city of Guaiba in the south of Brazil sits by the Guiba River, and it has 100.000 inhabitants. One particular aspect about Guaiba city is striking: a large cellulose factory, the only one in the world situated in an urban environment. From almost anywhere in the city, you...
Michele Vittori: China Cities
A long trip across four major cities in the north of China: Beijing, Xi'an, Xining and Lanzhou offered me the opportunity to assemble this photographic series focusing on the rapid transformation of Chinese urban territory. The series shows the common profile of the cities, the massive urban modernisation, the sharp...
Markel Redondo: Sand Castles
Spain is one of the countries hardest hit by the European economic crisis. Due to a toxic combination of billions of euros worth of bad loans held by Spanish banks and a real estate bubble that burst in spectacular style in 2007, Spain's economy now faces multiple simultaneous challenges which...