Private car ownership has been forbidden in Albania until 1991, when the Iron Curtain Fall and Capitalism replaced socialism. This kind of physical withdrawal from an object of desire is one reason for the huge amount of car washs that can be found in Albania. Not only owning a car...
David Denil: Let Us Not Fall Asleep While Walking
In 1991, Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union in the aftermath of its dissolution at the end of the Cold War. Following independence, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state. In 2013, protests against the government of President Yanukovych broke out in downtown Kiev after the government made the...
Luana Rigolli: In Aqua Salus
The ancient Romans knew the thermal springs flowing under Salsomaggiore, but the doctor Lorenzo Berzieri was the first one to understand the great curative properties of that water, in 1839. It was the beginning of a great success, based on the new thermal tourism, unprecedented for this small and rural...
Daria Garnik: Gagarin
The triumphal and tragically broken life of Yuri Gagarin - the first human to journey into outer space – made him the cult hero of the Soviet mythology and the central figure of scientific and atheistic propaganda of the USSR. Space exploration was one of the priority directions of domestic...
Andrea Di Martino: Chateaux!
In China red brings good luck. Maybe this is why the Chinese are drinking more wine than before, the vineyards are increasing and wineries are growing visibly. France with its "chateaux" is the reference model: large vineyards in farms dominated by ancient castles. To copy this successful iconography, in recent...
Christian Werner: Rubble and Delusion
With the fall of Aleppo, the regime of Bashar Assad once again controls the country's second-largest city. But is reconciliation possible in the country? A journey through the dictator's rump state, to have a deeper look in the everyday life in Assad's Syria. Christian Werner is a freelance multimedia/photojournalist based...
Mark Wohlrab: Monte Kali
At the sight of these mountains one feels, on the one hand, encouraged to give in to the aesthetics of the mountain landscape, but on the other hand it is irritated and horrified by this heap, dumped by human hands into the landscape. Over 150 million tonnes of salt produced...
Tomasz Lewandowski: Auschwitz – Ultima Ratio of the Modern Age
According to a duo of photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the form of the industrial construction is determined only by its function. The designing logic of the architecture in the concentration camp Auschwitz was, that the forms of the buildings were absolutely subordinated to their function as instruments of the...
Patricia Ackerman: The Animitas
'Animita' is born for compassion of the people in the place in which a 'bad death' happened. It is a popular cenotaph, the rests remains in the cemetery, by what the soul is honored, the "ánima". Where the journey on earth has finished, in the same place there is constructed...
Tiago Coelho: Joy Resort
The small city of Guaiba in the south of Brazil sits by the Guiba River, and it has 100.000 inhabitants. One particular aspect about Guaiba city is striking: a large cellulose factory, the only one in the world situated in an urban environment. From almost anywhere in the city, you...