The "other" side of Crete, mainly known through narratives which seems to have come out of a novel, unseen at first sight. Land and inhabitants in a complete interaction, traditional customs, often in a primitive mode, maintain their influential power through time. It's difficult for anyone who is not an...
Vassilis Konstantinou: Unintentional Sculptures
Vassilis Konstantinou's project under the tittle' unintentional sculptures' was realized during the years 2015-1017 within the suburban landscape of Attica, which has gone through a great deal of changes due to the economic crisis. The photographer explores the landscape and decides to focus and highlight the man-made constructions that reveal...
Catherine Hyland: Universal Experience
Catherine Hyland is an artist based in London. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design with a First class BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art and completed her Masters at the Royal College of Art. About "Universal Experience" series Catherine says: I’m interested in fabricated memory, national identity, Chinese...
Davit Koridze: Nowhere in Vaziani
Five kilometers away from Tbilisi, there’s a district called Vaziani. It’s a former military settlement with 41 buildings. The inhabitants call it “District 13”. There are no trees or green nature around. The asphalt road ends where the settlement starts. Plastic bags fly in the air because of the strong...
Tatiana Palyga: Cherepovets
Cherepovets is a Russian city, an administrative center of Vologda region, with a population of around 317 000 people. It is situated in the North-West of Russia somewhere between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. I was born in this city and lived there for twenty four years. As a big part...
Arianna Sanesi: Dispersal
"It's a misty day and we've already been walking for a couple of hours. It's been raining for weeks now, the forest has an apocalyptic feel to it, trees have fallen and the air is still, yet full of muffled sounds. [..] Weather for wolves, we use to say in...
Daro Sulakauri: Deprived of Adolescence
Georgia has one of the highest rates in europe for early marriages. Marriages occur mainly in Kakheti and Adjara regions, it is mostly shown among religious and ethnic minorities. In villages large number of girls are taken out of school to be married. After going to a wedding in a...
Stefano Miliffi: Une Nouvelle Identitè
“Identity is not immutable, but growth and social changes can contribute to its evolution”. This concept can refer to both the individual and collective communities with a common cultural heritage. The case of Morocco is particularly interesting because it is a various and heterogeneous country with very ancient traditions, but...
Jasper Bastian: A Road Not Taken
The border between Belarus and Lithuania, two countries previously part of the Soviet Union, was once little more than an insignificant, thin line on a map. The people of this area interacted freely with one another. The bonds of their communal life were strong despite their national diversity. Families often...
Joydip Mitra: Losing Horizon – The Changpa Nomads of Trans-Himalayan India
Known as Changpas, or people who migrated from the Tibetan district of ‘Changthang, a very special community resides-- or rather moves around-- the dry mountains of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. Rearing goats is their only way of life and for these soft but hairy creatures these shepherds migrate from...