In an attempt to explore one aspect of gun culture, I set up my darkroom tent and tintype gear at known target shooting locations in the Arizona desert. I create participants' tintype portraits, then give the subjects the option to use the image as a target. Tintypes were the primary...
Dasha Chegarovskaya: The Aliens
First of all, this project is about sensations: among them are vulnerability, self-destruction, being hurtfully beautiful. Project is about beauty which is the power and the destructiveness at the same time for those fragile girls it belongs to. It seems the images in the photos ask for help from those...
Ivan Pushkin: Sacred
The tradition of sanctification in the folk Slavic culture was the way to make places and objects sacred, and empower them with purifying and protective effects; it was the separation of the sacral space and everyday life. Recently, Russian society has become quiet sensitive to the boundaries between these areas,...
Oliver Regueiro – Earthbound | Portrait Series of Captive Birds
A series of portraits of captive macaws and cockatoos. Most of them have been abandoned and now live in a sanctuary. I wanted to create awareness about the issue of pet birds and illegal trade of exotic birds. Also want to continue the project and focus now on the trade...
Kurt Hollander: The Architecture of Sex
About his award winning project "The Architecture of Sex" says Kurt: On my first trip to Cali, Colombia I lived for two weeks in a thematic love motel called Kiss Me. Motel Kiss Me, Cali’s largest and most popular love motel, has more than 180 rooms, each one with a different theme...
Bruno Gori: How Deep is the Sea
About his project says Bruno: This project was inspired by a song called “Com’è profondo il mare” (How deep is the sea), written and sung by the Italian singer Lucio Dalla. In addition to groped to visually recreate the musical influences I have deliberately altered the characteristics of the subjects to...
Ikuru Kuwajima: Tundra Kids
In the arctic tundra of Russia, there is a boarding school for the Nenets, the nomadic northern indigenous people. The children study and live there to receive formal education from autumn to spring. From April to September, they are with their families and reindeers in the middle of the tundra,...
Jennifer Georgescu: Mother Sers
When you are a mother you are expected to be selfless, and any utterance of a challenge or obstacle will be seen as a complaint. Motherhood is a profession with no breaks or guidance, and the time and effort you put forth goes relatively unnoticed. In 2015, through good fortune,...
Kamil Kotarba: Hide and Seek
About "Hide and Seek" says Kamil: A virtual world always competes with a real world. Instead of focusing on interaction with other people, we prefer to stare at a small mobile screen which constantly offers us new incentives. The incentives which we choose without any restrictions of space and time in...
Can Dagarslani: Identities
In his series Identities, Can Dağarslanı portrayed two girls, making them both an integral part together with the diverse architectural elements. The search for `identity` is the point of origin of the series. For this series two identical and inseparable young women dressed and positioned in the same way, who...