Skin Deep is a portrait series that seeks to understand the impacts tattoos have on former gang members and people trying to escape the gang life. How we as a society judge ex-gang members with tattoos and ultimately how they judge themselves. Portraits are taken off the participants and their...
Arvids Baranovs: Darkness/Light
Says Arvids: Winter in the Northern hemisphere is associated not only with cold, but also with darkness that dominates the half of the year. And with the lack of sunshine come the psychological struggles such as the so-called winter depression because the human body is not adapted to this kind...
Julieta Ansalas: Teatro De Cámara
Says Julieta: Teatro de cámara is part of a research process where I question the limits of photography. Through the interaction of time and movement images are revealed that the human eye cannot see. The images are created from the action of precise camera movements and slow exposure times. I...
María Abenia: Ulises
Says Maria: Ulises is the result of a selection of photographs taken during 2013 and 2018 in my trips to Mexico, South Korea and Spain. All the selected images express by themselves the brand of an era - starting by its digital nature- , as well as my particular affinity...
Ruben Salgado Escudero: Solar Portraits
The International Energy Agency estimates that roughly 1.1 billion people in the world still live without access to electricity. In many communities throughout the world, most all rural labor is still unmechanized, candles - which are both expensive and dangerous – are the only source of light available once the...
Francesca Catastini: Petrus
Petrus reflects on a certain rhetoric of masculinity in Western culture. It is about the human drive to define ourselves and the world through a definite form. Form is never stable though. It is the ever-changing result of a never-ending tension between forces pushing from within and pressures coming from...
Sharbendu De: Imagined Homeland
Imagined Homeland (2013-19) is a seven-year-long surrealistic exploration of the mythical life of the indigenous Lisu tribe living inside the dense forests of Namdapha National Park on the India-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Living in these forests is not easy. Traditionally, hunter-gatherers and now settling into subsistence farming, they...
Ioanna Sakellaraki: The Truth Is In The Soil
About her project says Ioanna: After my father passed away three years ago, I returned to my homeland Greece and followed my mother’s behaviours as a believer seeking for shelter in the wider system of religious traditions and cultural beliefs in a society functioning on that basis. Photography transformed itself...
Craig Schwanfelder: Half Court – Full Court
Half Court - Full Court is created using in-camera multiple exposure photography. This series presents the viewer with the experience of standing at center court and looking at both basketball hoops simultaneously. Each basketball court is unique, creating a portfolio of images that highlights the remarkable diversity of settings for...
Mara Sánchez-Renero: Iluikak
The Zongolica’s mountains, in the state of Veracruz, is traveled from its different altitudes and humidities, which are cross through with difficulty because its geographical conditions still place it as an isolated and remote region. What determines its precarious economy, which places it as one of the poorest areas of...