About her project says Tabitha: Growing up in a small town in rural Maine, my contact with others was limited. My sisters and I lived in a close-knit religious culture where sexuality was never mentioned. I was raised alongside three sisters. As children we created elaborate fantasy games and tried...
Giulio Di Sturco: Ganga Ma
A symbol of spirituality as old as Jerusalem and Athens, the Ganges River has become the first non-human entity in India to be granted the same legal status as that of human beings. The river goddess Ganga once flowed wild and free, ripping through the Indian landscape with vigor and...
Julien Malabry: L’île Aux Lotophages
Sand. Overwhelming light of a warm summer afternoon. Reverbering boom. Rickety fences. Remains of any concrete installation. And everywhere the void. And everywhere absence. Absence, absence of man in a space that he built and then deserted. It is the diffuse feeling that emerges from the images of Julien Malabry....
Eduard Korniyenko: Lords of the Guns
The state-run school is based in the southern Russian city of Stavropol, some 150 miles from the Olympic resort of Sochi. It is named in honour of Alexei Yermolov, the famous Russian imperial general, and the institution itself is as military-influenced as its name. A highlight for lots of these...
Raul Guillermo: Plage Isolée
Deauville, Étretat, Marseille, Le Havre, Saint-Pierre de Quiberon. What do all these places have in common? Most of these cities are popular touristic sites during the summer for the French population. Why not dive into the majestic beauty of Deauville with its stunning horses galloping through the sand, contemplate the...
Jacek Fota: PKiN
The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw – less and less a symbol of Stalinist domination, more and more an icon of the city. It evokes strong emotions all the while remaining largely unexplored, and as such a tad alien. At the time of planning, in 1952, the monumental...
Dara McGrath: Project Cleansweep
Taking its name from a Ministry of Defence investigation issued in 2011, that assessed the risk contamination at sites in the United Kingdom used in the manufacture, storage, and disposal of chemical weapons from WWI to the present day. Beyond the assessment to the ways that landscapes are psychologically charged...
Mattia Vacca: The Russian Doukhobors – Disappearing Minority in Georgia
The Doukhobors have left Russia since Tsar Nicholas I exiled them in the 1840s. They settled their community in remote Georgian villages among the border with Armenia and Turkey at almost 2500 meters of altitude. They are a Christian sect that believed God resides within every person, rendering the need...
Rob Zeigler: Faces of Chaco
Faces of Chaco is an ongoing documentary and portrait photography series focused on members of the Navajo community in the Greater Chaco area of New Mexico. The project will bring attention to the trials they face as a result of the oil and gas industry disrupting their lives, traditions and...
Sharbendu De: Imagined Homeland
Imagined Homeland (2013-ongoing) is a crossover documentary series on the life of the Tibeto-Burmese Lisu tribe living in the dense forests of Namdapha National Park (NNP) and Tiger Reserve on the remote Indo-Myanmar border of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Says De: The Lisus call the forests ‘home’, self educate their children,...