Define exactly what a city signifies is very complicated. The reason is that human habitat is basically instable. Cities are in an ever occurring mutation. We know in every moment that we are urged by the consequences a good or bad architectural environment produces on us: if it didn’t have...
João Pedro Machado: Plano Miraflores
This series of images was taken in the residencial area of Miraflores, Lisboa. It was at 89 that my parents moved to an apartment in Miraflores, I was two years old and I lived there until eighteen. During the time I lived there I had no relationship with photography, much...
Marie-Pierre Dieterlé: Martin Luther King Park
About "Martin Luther King Park" says Marie-Pierre: This series is an ongoing project about my neighbourhood under construction in Paris with a center park called "Martin Luther King". This area is widely cited as a role model for the « Grand Paris » with new environmental and architectural standards. I...
Chris Garvi: Marseile
Chris Garvi is an independent photographer based in Marseille, south of France. French born, he studied English litterature and civilisation at university. As a consequence, his work is influenced by both french and american photography at the same time. Chris works on stories, documentary or imaginary, paying a particular attention...
Davit Koridze: Nowhere in Vaziani
Five kilometers away from Tbilisi, there’s a district called Vaziani. It’s a former military settlement with 41 buildings. The inhabitants call it “District 13”. There are no trees or green nature around. The asphalt road ends where the settlement starts. Plastic bags fly in the air because of the strong...
Tatiana Palyga: Cherepovets
Cherepovets is a Russian city, an administrative center of Vologda region, with a population of around 317 000 people. It is situated in the North-West of Russia somewhere between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. I was born in this city and lived there for twenty four years. As a big part...
Peter Ydeen: Easton Nights
Since the close of 2015 Peter Ydeen has been photographing at night in the Easton Pennsylvania area. Starting with images of George Tice's elegant night shots in mind, it soon matured into much more than he had expected. The night has it's own visual rules, it's own color wheel, and...
Orestis Seferoglou: Uniformity
Uniformity: the quality or state of being uniform. The desert as an open space has multiple roles and states. The basic characteristic is uniformity. From every point of view the desert has almost the same image. The desert is transformed into a modern city on an exponential growth. The desert...
Mikula Platz: Socialist Classicism – Dictatorial Architecture Behind the Iron Curtain
The Socialist classicism found its origin in the socialist realism, the only art movement which was approved in the Soviet Union since 1934, as well as in the constructivism and the Russian avant-garde, which represented a style-defining architectural direction in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Just...
Thibaut Derien: I Live in a Ghost City
Thibaut Derien began to travel France a decade ago, deliberately avoiding major roads and outputs bordered by kilometers of garish signs, bland prefabricated buildings, uniform housing estates and head-spining roundabouts, that years of careless urban policies have emerged as the new aesthetic standards of suburban areas. He was looking for...