Says Anna: Lampedusa is an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Lampedusa was the salvation for many migrants, oasis in the endless desert of the sea. But it is also the holiday destination of many tourists looking for peace. Arid but generous, warm and enveloping, but you can...
Daro Sulakauri: The Black Gold
Walking in the City of Chiatura in a hot weather is almost like a misty dance floor of a club. Manganese dust looks as if it is visible due to open pit mines. The main river Kvirila, which flows through the whole town is poluted as the remnants of the...
Zuzana Pustaiova: Faces of Family
What is a family? A family is a small social group made out of individuals, and also an environment which we are most bound to, and which influences us a great deal. A family can encompass various forms, faces, emotions, and moods. Looking at my family, I find and examine...
Antonio Guerra: Ver de Acción
“Ver de Acción” explores the limits between natural and cultural, creating an experience with landscape and space interaction. In order to do that, I use photography as a medium to create a veritable illusion and reveal the deceiving capability of landscape as a social construct, resorting to intervention and staging...
Paulo Batalha: A Better Home Waiting in The Blue Sky
Says Paulo: This series represents part of a long-term project about immigration in my city, Sao Paulo, and my country, Brazil. I spent the last year accompanying the cult of a peculiar Pentecostal church located in Sao Paulo's downtown. It was created and is mostly attended by Nigerian immigrants which...
Bianca Salvo: The Universe Makers
The project The Universe Makers is the result of a research on space imagery and it aims to inquire on representative patterns and figurative models upon which our pop culture psyche bases and which still nowadays profoundly influence our attitudes toward the scientific and the outer space. Says Bianca: Through...
Milica Mrvic: Safari
Just like animals use their patterns, spots and colors of their skins and furs to merge with the environment in order to prolong their fleeting life, humans mask every day in order to fit into social norms and stereotypes. However, clothes with wild animal patterns and designs are directly contrary...
Marina Caneve: Are They Rocks or Clouds?
"Are They Rocks or Clouds?" is a research based on the comprehension of something which is so prominent that people can only adapt their lives. "Nature failure is inevitable, we can only face it." When a natural catastrophe happens we suddenly realise that the environment we live can be dangerous....
Emily Wiethorn: A Certain Kind Of Woman
Says Emily: In this series, I explore what we show to the world as women. As a young girl I was given many instructions on how a woman should act. I spent my life in the well-intentioned disguises taught to me by my mother. I concealed much of my introverted...
Ksenia Sidorova: Simplex
Says Ksenia: My project focuses on young people in large Russian cities who are running away from their daily reality, transforming into fantastic creatures of imagination, or simply identifying themselves with someone else. My heroes are reenactors, streamers, role players, saberfighters, cosplayers, reenactors of historical dances, strikeball players. They engage in"for...