Chameleon is a photo essay about visibility and stands as a conversation between masculinities and spaces. Looking beyond heteronormative confines the still frames evoke the love, fear, joy and safe environments of people that exist outside these constructs that can be suffocating. A narrative both personal and collective, a statement,...
Baltazar Fajto: Everything’s Fine
There is a topos for apocalypse stories; its most interesting part is initial stage where destructive forces are yet to come – before they burst out there are latent signs that herald coming catastrophe. It is always ignored or overlooked by the cataclysm subjects. This is collection of images of...
Li Sun: Beholders
Says Li: Surveillance system is the observer of the city, but citizens who are observed seldom look the cameras face to face. If we take the surveillance system as a creature, then the camera must be the face of it, being the area that is equipped with the most front-end...
Igor Elukov: The Book of Miracles
Says Igor: The series is titled after the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a 16th century German illustrated manuscript listing the supernatural phenomena from the Flood to the time of the book’s completion. The events described in the manuscript reveal the involvement of God in the human world. In contrast, I...
Ewa Doroszenko: The Promise of Sublime Words
Sophisticated editing tools, popular beauty apps, computer games are shifting our perception of what beauty is. We try to categorize and compartmentalize our world in oppositions: there is the digital and there is the physical; there is the nature and there is the culture. In actuality, none of these elements...
Annick Donkers: Un-identified
UN-IDENTIFIED is an ongoing series about the belief in alien species and how people construct their own world and perceptions. Says Annick: I am intrigued by how people deal with this belief on a personal, psychological and collective level. The series is based on a personal experience I had at...
Roberto Chierichini: Moths
No matter how hard they try to oppose, they will always be attracted to light. The moths, nocturnal animals, wandering, driven to come out of the dark, because in the dark they are indistinguishable and in the light they build their identity, without which it is difficult to orientate. The...
Philippe Braquenier: Earth Not a Globe
The continents float on an endless ocean which somehow has a layer of rock and fire underneath it. Earth is a disc under a glass dome and the lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic ocean, bordered by a 150-foot-tall circular...
Julia Bezhanova: Disintegration
Reflecting on the themes of motherhood and bodily fatigue, Julia created a series of works of self-portraits called “disintegration”. For this surrealistic story, Julia created soft sculptures and collages from photographs of self-portraits. The visual inspiration for the project was the work of Hieronymus Bosch. In her work, Julia likes...
Arseniy Neskhodimov: Prozac
Says Arseniy: This is an ongoing project that I started two years ago. I called it Prozac after a famous antidepressant prescribed for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Most people, including myself, suffer from depression every so often. I have tried taking medication in the past but they didn’t...