One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic. - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Wars, states of emergency and continuing repression are immense breeding places for the pogroms against the people sacrificed in order to achieve political or economic goals. Terror that serves the ideology is a phenomenon imprinted in...
Adam Friedberg: Single Story
The last fifteen years or so have seen an enormous increase in the development and construction of new buildings in New York City, especially in downtown Manhattan’s East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, and Bowery neighborhoods. Previously, buildings greater than six stories were less common between the Financial District...
Zhou Han Shun: Frenetic City
About his Hong Kong project entitled "Frenetic City" Chinese photographer Zhou Han Shun says: Frenetic City is an exploration of this complicated and multi-layered world. This work focuses on how people from different walks of life come to live together in a particular place. The congregation of people creates a multi-layered society which...
Anna Filipova: Arcitc Coal
Svalbard is a cold, dark and isolated island in the Arctic Ocean, situated about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. Norway and Russia are the only two nations with settlements there. Large-scale coal mining that established communities in Svalbard during the 1920s remains the main industry to this...
Antonio Aragon Renuncio: Sorcière. The Witches. The Soul Eaters
Les Sorcières. The witches. The soul eaters. At Burkina Faso. In the middle of the deep savannah. Far from everything. Close to nowhere. Even today in the Mossi tribal culture many women are accused of being “witches” by their neighbors, simply because they assume that they are responsible for any...
Galina Kurlat: Child Portraits
In this new series of portraits of children between the ages of 6-12, I explore the vast interactions of the child and his or her reaction to being photographed using an antiquated and unfamiliar method. Drawing from a rich history of child portraits from the 1800s, including post-mortem photography, I...
Tatevik Vardanyan: Panels
Armenia reestablished its independence nearly 25 years ago with the legacy of Soviet architecture. These buildings across the republic are as fascinating as they are monotonous. Their utilitarian purpose is incorporated into the design: colorless blocks, uniform heights. An idea of creating something similar while giving some differences like the...
Maurice Ressel: Faces of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is ranking first on the list of the world’s most lethal contagious diseases. It is being transmitted through droplet infection from one person to another. Especially people with an already weak immune system are vulnerable to infection. Most frequently, the disease afflicts the respiratory passages. But also bones, lymph...
Jalal Shamsazaran: The Story of People Who Will no Longer Have a Lake
Urmia Lake, located in the northwestern Iran was the second largest salt lake in the world and the largest in the Middle East. The lake was protected as a national park by Iranian Department of Environment and it was one of the most famous international wetlands registered in The Ramsar...
Marcin Ryczek: Simple World
Simple World is a series of minimalistic and conceptual photographs which refer to symbolism. The minimum of the form and the maximum of the contents and references - this is its main feature and keynote. Simplicity refers here to the existing situations which make up our world and to the...