Terra Incognita is first and foremost a journey to the end of the world, in the midst of the unsettling polar landscapes that fascinated explorers for so long. On the one hand the intriguing and mythical polar fauna, on the other the disorientating whiteness of the ice. Imagined from antiquity...
Sharafat Ali Dar: Who Am I – Uncertain Identity
Kashmir, one of the most under-reported conflicts in the world today, is often seen by many as just a territorial dispute between South Asian nuclear rivals, India and Pakistan. But in the last 28 years, the humanitarian cost of the conflict has been extremely huge. Once called the paradise on...
Marzena Kolarz: ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia)
About ALL series says Marzena: My series is about leukemia, but is in a very subjective and personal way. When my daughter was 3 year old fell ill on this disease. During this time, illness, hospital, treatment, nuisance and anxieties become common place our family. This series is something a kind of...
Carla Shapiro: To Capture a Shadow
To Capture a Shadow project by Carla Shapiro represent an intuitive reimagining of moments and experiences through a subtractive and additive process. Shapiro’s work process includes a reworking of the original photographic image in many layers of manipulation — in camera as she photographs, through scratching the film, reworking as...
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...
Pavel Volkov: Playing with Darkness
About his project says Pavel: Sergey Mangos story for me is an example of outstanding human strength and power - not only physical but also spiritual. For the first time I saw Sergey near one Moscow underground station in a rush hour. He was standing near the entrance, not very...
Nadav Ariel: The Face of the Tribe
Says Nadav: This is an ongoing project, that has began few years ago, when I started to “collect” young Israelis, who gave me a strong impression or influenced me in some way, and photograph them in various parts of the country. Through the filming process I seek to better understand their...
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...
Anna Zatonow: God’s Greatest Gift
While in many developed countries birth rates are falling and special incentive programs are implemented by the governments to encourage families to have more children, in Guatemala the population is growing uncontrollably while poverty, hunger, health care and education remain huge problems. Guatemalan families, particularly those from rural and indigenous...
Mashruk Ahmed: The War Is Not Over Yet
About his series says Mashruk: We achieved our independence after a big sacrifice for the people of Bangladesh. After a 9 months war, we had our victory. Man and also the women participated in the war, but our history does not remember those women that lost their everything in the...