That we are not as beautiful as we ought to be in photographs is not a sign of the images being bad. We have learned to see ourselves beautiful in the mirror. The angle at which we look at ourselves in mirrors is our best possible one and we are...
Andrii Dostliev: Fairy Castles of Donetsk
Says Andrii: Remember how in the nineties we had cockroaches at home, and when you lit the stove the floor turned red from them? I once stole money that you were saving up for winter boots and bought Snickers bars for all my friends, and then was too scared to...
Jordanna Kalman: Little Romances
Says Jordanna: When considered as an object the photograph exists physically in the world, it belongs to someone; it gets held, it has weight, value. I’ve been interested in this concept for some time. It was this interest plus the recurrent use of my images online without my permission that...
Adrien Blondel: The Object and The Subject
The object and the subject is a reflexion on our relationship to the gaze of others. The images were submitted to an eye-tracking test revealing the gaze of participants. It is a study of the fictions we build around something that is condemned to remain foreign to us. The experience...
Bertrand Cavalier: Concrete Doesn’t Burn
The twentieth century saw many old European cities riddled with bullets and reduced to rubble by bombs. In the case of Belfast and Sarajevo, the wounds caused by armed conflict and war are still fairly fresh. Traumatic ruptures to the urban fabric of cities levelled during the Second World War...
Laura Gwenaëlle Berson: Percipere
Percipere is, in a way, an image of the experimentation of a metaphysical doubt in a concrete way. The construction of reality, whether internal or external, goes through our five senses. Since these senses are disorganized, our perception changes. This phenomenon, called derealization can occur for example during trauma, prolonged...
Elizabeth Casasola: No Title
Strange views are what we see of others that we begin to forget even though there is an extensive geographic catalog of bodily events. The body as a language, like any other language contains ambiguous meanings and histories, just as the language is short to refer to the meanings and...
Sadra Bagheri: Where is This Place?
Says Sadra: Our memories are not as honest as they appear. Human brain is not neutral about recreating memories and is always changing them according to new information it gets. When you think of a scene that you have memorized, your brain won't give you an exact image of it...
Debsuddha Banerjee: Towards the No Man’s Land, They Say
Ghoramara, Mousuni and Botkhali are those islands located in Gangetic delta region of West Bengal, India, has been disappearing, triggered since late 1960 but after Aila storm on 2009 has instigated the rate of erosion over the coastal region in India like Sundarban, world’s largest delta. The gradual engulfing by...
Anna-Tia Buss: I Never Realized
Says Anna-Tia: The female body is linked to beauty and all the expectations that come with it. Throughout visual history, the male view has dominated the perception of female beauty. This subjective notion is usually linked to culture and upbringing; despite globalization, beauty standards differ from place to place. These preferences...