The project presents photographs that depicts pieces of discarded photo paper which were found in the former KGB “Patarei” prison photography darkroom in Tallinn, Estonia. Photography in the context of KGB prisons was mainly used as a documenting tool and was very controlled, capturing the subject, and recasting him as...
Marie Mons: Aurore Colbert
Marie Mons spent three winter months in a small village in the eastern fjords of Iceland, where she became Aurore. She embodied her character allowing surprise to play a large part, evoking the winter, its polar nights and the rhythm that it induces through a great shamanic ritual resembling a...
Venetia Menzies: 21st Century Bedouin
'21st Century Bedouin' is a documentary project that explores how nomadic life in Algeria has been radically transformed over the past century, through events such as French colonisation, civil war and mass urban migration. The project examines this change through the lens of an individual family, whose story is told...
Erin Lee: Este Lado / This Side
Este Lado is a collaborative project with residents from various cities between Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez along the northern border of Mexico. This work portrays the lives, memories, and futures of the people living in these communities and the aspect of normalcy, which still exists for those who grow up...
Federica Landi: Crisalide
Says Federica: Crisalide is a project developed during Humus Interdisciplinary Residence and aims to investigates the processes of memory and forgetfulness related to our own traditions and cultural roots. Traveling around the eastern part of Veneto region I had the chance to study the history of the “paesaggio di bonifica”,...
Khashayar Javanmardi: To Leave, Or Not To Leave
Inspired by the renowned Shakespearean inquiry, this project considers immigration as a vessel that leads the subject to the possibility of building a better life. The project considers the flow of migrants from Iran, many of whom stay in Turkey pending resettlement. Iran is under severe economic duress, a situation...
Nasos Karabelas: Deformed Bodies
This series is the attempt to understand the functioning of sensations. To explorate the space of emotions and the interaction between the forms of the image and the viewer. Each photo is an entity, which includes a certain mental condition. So, we are dealing with a variety of emotional loads...
Florence Iff: 67P
"67P" project is an investigation on light, time and space on the one hand within the subject of photography itself and on the other hand on the example of the space mission „Rosetta“. Images from NASA and ESA depict the journey to the comet 67P, which have been the designation...
Antonio Guerra: Comporta-miento Para un Simulacro
The first explorers and mountaineers like Windham or Burnet, were not able to describe in detail or give an idea about the new spot what they were seeing, because they did not know any other territory that resembled that new environment that they discovery. To solve it, they resorted to...
Marcos Goymil: The Metric and The Tear
Through a series of images, this project presents an imaginary return journey to places and objects that we can never see in the same way again. These photographs and installations are rooted in the study carried out by Michel Foucault on Panopticismin his book “Discipline and Punish", as well as...