Animal Land is a collaborative project between Alyssa C. Salomon, visual artist, and Anne Wright, Director of Environmental Outreach at the Rice Rivers Center, Virginia Commonwealth University’s biological field station. Animal Land unites contemporary art strategies with scientific research, to shine light on wildlife dwelling amongst tamed and untamed habitats...
Argus Paul Estabrook: School Memories – The Loss In Danwon High
Ten classrooms at Danwon High School were spontaneously transformed into memorial sites during the Sewol Ferry Tragedy on April 16, 2014, when the lives of 250 students and 12 teachers (nearly its entire second year class) were lost off the coast of Donggeochado, South Korea. Overnight these classrooms were covered...
Randy Wachtin: Cascadia By Nature
There exists an innate human instinct to care about and communicate with nature. Experts in the fields of Natural Science & Psychotherapy have been touting positive effects of nature on the human body and mind. A Japanese study describes a link between walking in forests and the reduction of chronic...
Florian Amoser: Quantified Landscape
Quantified Landscape introduces an ongoing research project on the photographic transposition of space on a flat surface. Deep in the heart of underground galleries, I mapped out the relief by placing a motor-mounted laser on the ground. The light beam slowly sweeps the walls of the cave, thereby drawing a...
Caique Cunha: Williamsburg
“The streets are full of sweat in the mortar of your pavement”, according to the nineteenth century Brazilian writer, João do Rio, in his book, The Enchanting Soul of the Streets. “Williamsburg” is the final work after spending some months (2015) in the neighborhood streets of Brooklyn. New York City...
Will Baxter: Rohingya
Viewed as outsiders in both Bangladesh and Myanmar, ethnic Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution for decades. Anti-Rohingya sentiment in Myanmar has swelled due to a movement led by radical Buddhist monks, and now more than 100,000 Rohingya are confined in squalid prison camps in western Rakhine state. Despite evidence that...
David Arribas: Yearning
I grow up listening a punk and rock music. For this reason I decided to create a photographical project about the way of life of a punki group "Ansia Viva" in Madrid, Spain. Between the years 2014 and 2015 I created a confident atmosphere that allow to me to be...
Shengelia Giorgi: Homeless
Because of 25 year long conflict situation in Georgia, 65% of the population is under poverty level. Internally displaced persons, along with the village population are settled down in Tbilisi, mainly. Unemployment is the main problem in the country. Among socially disadvantaged population, there are some in a critical situation,...
Kamil Sleszynski: Lost Place
The Catholic Centre for Education and Addiction Therapy Metanoia exists since 2000. The facility helps young people addicted to drugs and alcohol. Located in the Knyszynska Forest (Poland), occupies the former administration building Agroma – plants which in the past produced agricultural machinery, home appliances, and probably also weapons... Unfortunately...
Denis Esakov: This is Not a Tower
The story is old: iconic objects crumble into dust or, at best, provide a suitable background for selfies. One dramatic fall from grace has been particularly striking: the shift from tower—a dominant presence in the cityscape asserting supremacy of the modernist idea over man—to “gray concrete box”, from icon to...