This photographic project explores the issue of the long-term impact of war and propaganda on the daily lives of civilians in the Donbass warzone. It is a comprehensive attempt at recording the changes taking place in society in the warzone. Only 20 minutes away from the coffee shops in the...
Thomas Correa: Lomas de Ancon
Lima is the biggest city in the world built on a desert, so when you cross the topological frontieres of the city, after the barriadas (peruvian township usually constructed on the mounts of the city) the desert reappear. In the north of the Panamericana road wich cross the wole city...
Emanuele Amighetti: Unrecognized Nation, Forgotten War
The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been a long one. The troubles started in 1988, escalating into a full-scale war when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. It left 65,000 ethnic Armenians and 40,000 ethnic Azeris displaced. Today, soldiers are still defending their positions over the frontline, despite an...
Javier Alvarez: PREDIO
During the nineties, the working class and social groups began squatting in abandoned buildings in São Paulo’s (Brazil) downtown. Today, there are more than 40 different movements throughout the country, of families, immigrants and/or workers squatting in hundreds of abandoned properties. On the thirteen floors of the Marconi squat, nearly...
Chris Bierl: City Tales From Frunze
Says Chris: In winter 2017/18 I spent almost three months in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. I lived close to the west banks of the small river Alamedin. The suburban part of Bishkek starts on the east bank and with it another way of life, social class and cityscape. My interest lied in...
Louise Amelie & Aljaz Fuis: Sole Harlem
Sole Harlem. The one and only, unique and pure – just Harlem, and nothing else. The title introduces Harlem as a magical place of longing that only works and lives within, and cannot carry its characteristics to the outside world. The words do not only convey the uniqueness of this...
Aitor Garmendia: Slaughterhouse
Says Aitor: Over the course of a number of months, between the years 2015 and 2017 I gained access to 58 slaughterhouses, located ten different Mexican states. During this time, I documented the killing of cows, goats, chickens and horses, as well as the transport of these animals, from farm...
Mijannur Gazi: Extension of a City
Kolkata (Calcutta), the metro city of India, like other big cities, is getting bigger by the day in its physical format. The adjacent suburban areas are also becoming part of the main city. A few years back areas which were just negligible neighboring spaces, have now integrated into the city....
Owen Harvey: Ground Clearance
In the mid-to-late 1940’s a new subculture in America emerged and grew during the post war prosperity of the 1950’s. Young Latino youths had been known to place sandbags in their custom vehicles, so that the body of their car would ride close to the road; “slow and low” being...
Solmaz Daryani: Hamoun Wetland to Wasteland
Iran is “water bankrupt,” and mainly suffering from a socio-economic drought, where water demand exceeds the natural water supply. My country is facing a serious and protracted water crisis and desertification as lakes and rivers once-fertile become barren. water shortages sparked protests in the south of Iran in the last...