On April 27, 1986 people in cities and villages of the Chernobyl zone heard a notice of a temporary evacuation because of the “adverse radiation situation”. Tens of thousands of people left their homes, assured by the Soviet government to come back in a few days, taking only the necessities...
Stefano Stranges – The Victims Of Our Wealth
Accra - Ghana. Its name is Agbogbloshie, but when you look for it, you better ask for “Sodom and Gomorrah”, everyone knows it with that name. It is the black dump of the West. 100,000 tons a year including mobiles, fridges, televisions, computers. Here, they are burnt, opened, selected, recycled...
Alessio Pellicoro: L’ altro Deserto Rosso
A project that aims to examine the so-called microworlds born and developed at the edges of Taranto. The current socio-economic and, above all, environmental situation of this city appears very difficult. I have taken into consideration marginal quarters as Paolo VI, Tamburi, Salinella, which represent the internal suburbs of the...
Filippo Venturi: Korean Dream
Between 1905 and 1945 Korea was dominated by the Japanese, thus becoming a colony of the Empire. In 1945, after Japan's defeat, Korea was involved in the Cold War and became an object of interest for the USA, the URSS and lately for China as well. This brought to the...
Benjamin Filarski: Above the Hill
After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in January 1979, Cambodia left behind depopulated cities. A quarter of the population was exterminated including 90% of the local elite. The capital, Phnom Penh, was sorely marked by abandonment during these years of conflict, and the ensuing political instability in the...
Roger Grasas: Ha Aretz, the Promised Land
Named after the Aramaic language that was supposedly spoken by Jesus Christ, and referring to the Promised Land, 'Ha Aretz' is a photographic interpretation of the biblical locations amidst a globalized land of alienation, conflict and consumerism. The project consists of photographs taken between 2012 and 2020 throughout Israel, Palestine,...
Stefano Marzoli: Oblivio
Oblivio is a long-term photographic project (2012-2020) born with the intent to tell the story of the European ethnic minorities that are going to disappear. This project is documenting through photography these populations hidden in between the European history. These communities and their past are going to be forget in...
Gleb Simonov: This, Promised
What do we do if a theory of landscape necessitates a theory of everything? Accumulating data breeds new specialties, but adds to the fragmentation — while one's relationship with the land is something inherently personal. Landscape is something walked — a sense of intimacy mixed up with logistics. In the...
Yiannis Antonopoulos: South East of Eden
South East of Eden is an ongoing project (2017-2020) that takes place so far in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Macedonia. History of Balkans has been presented over the centuries as a history of violence and conflict. This stereotype, which has shaped the image of the Balkan people in the...
Jose Navarrete: Outskirts. Looks at 9,90€
Outskirts. Looks at 9,90€ is a documentary photography project that focuses its gaze on the restaurants in the industrial zones of those cities are in the “Eje del Mediterraneo”, an important way of transporting goods in Spain, both rail, port and road. Outskirts is a project that aims to place...