Russian Palimpsest is a photographic exploration of the contemporary post-Soviet inhabited landscape in Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine (approximately 70 urban and suburban locations overall). I am shifting the optics from the Soviet sublime and Western exoticism to the everyday of our cities transitioning from a Communist Utopia to...
Karin Crona: Neither Nor
Old towns, shopping malls, industrial areas and wastelands, highways, big parking lots, suburbs divided in residential areas and compounds, green areas, tourist attractions, more or less visible slums - the major European cities and their suburbs get more and more alike. These images gives away clues to where they were...
Alban Lécuyer: The Grand Opening of Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is a unique example of our times of a capital that was almost entirely stripped of its population. Buildings were abandoned and traffic prohibited, as well as schools and public spaces being converted into farmland: from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime advocated domination over the “new...
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...
Michel Le Belhomme: The Two Labyrinths
While I hold a great respect for classical traditions of photography, I believe it is indispensable to place them in perspective. “The Two Labyrinths” explores its most blatant legend: landscape and its representation. Landscape, the ultimate romantic subject, most often expresses itself from the angle of the contemplative or the...
Anastasia Tsayder: Arcadia
Photographer Anastasia Tsayder discovers idyllic 'Arcadia' in Togliatti, a ‘socialist’ city rebuilt in the late 1960s on the bank of the Volga. Soviet standards of housing and infrastructure required mandatory creation of green areas filled with sculptures and fountains. Various potted plants inhabited large empty halls of public institutions -...
Valentina Casalini: Red Velvet
These images intend to draw the relation between London and its intrinsic urban features. This is an attempt to understand how the geographical environment of London could play an influence in shaping the poetic visions of so many writers and artists, particularly during the Victorian Age. That period has seen...
Julia Abzaltdinova: Noise in the Park
A park as an open grassy green area, designed for enjoying your leisure time, appeared on the wave of Romanticism in the XVIII century. Opened to public city parks appeared in Europe only at the beginning of the XIX century. Parks were promoting the cult of nature, harmony, quietness, seclusion....
Jordi Huisman: Rear Window
The view from the rear of a residential building in an old city exhibits the ways in which people influence their surroundings. When a new building block is designed and built as a single structure and concept it acquires a uniformity and alignment; in older cities a much more fragmented...