The project named Monolith is part of my ongoing focus on the marks and stigmata of history as seen today and for their ultimate fate. After working on the Berlin Wall, looking at war memorials, the D-Day beaches and various historic structures, I started the work in 2004. It all...
Adam Friedberg: Single Story
The last fifteen years or so have seen an enormous increase in the development and construction of new buildings in New York City, especially in downtown Manhattan’s East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, and Bowery neighborhoods. Previously, buildings greater than six stories were less common between the Financial District...
Thomas Hobbs: Maravilla del Mundo
Iquitos, Peru is a city of approximately half a million people located on the Amazon river. Its only accesses are by boat or plane. There are no highways connecting it with the rest of Peru, making the city a kind of island. Surrounded on three sides by water, the city...
Anna Filipova: Arcitc Coal
Svalbard is a cold, dark and isolated island in the Arctic Ocean, situated about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. Norway and Russia are the only two nations with settlements there. Large-scale coal mining that established communities in Svalbard during the 1920s remains the main industry to this...
Anastasia Tsayder: Arcadia
Photographer Anastasia Tsayder discovers idyllic 'Arcadia' in Togliatti, a ‘socialist’ city rebuilt in the late 1960s on the bank of the Volga. Soviet standards of housing and infrastructure required mandatory creation of green areas filled with sculptures and fountains. Various potted plants inhabited large empty halls of public institutions -...
Orestis Seferoglou: (Un)Settled Territory
Idomeni (Greek: Ειδομένη) is a small village in Greece, near the borders with the FYROM. The village is built in an elevation of 65 meters, in the outskirts of Kouri hill. It mounts in the West bank of Axios river. The village is interwoven with a railway station, which is...
Janne Riikonen: When Everything Comes Together But Nothing Makes Sense
When Everything Comes Together But Nothing Makes Sense is an ethnographic study into graffiti culture in Sweden with means of photography, portraying the people behind the thriving underground culture. The work gives a voice to the unheard part-takers of the subculture, while the audience gets a glance to their world....
Tamina-Florentine Zuch: Gür Orman – A Thick Forest
The Türkish Province of Istanbul is made up of 44% woodland. Over 2,500 naturally-occuring plant forms are to be found here. These woodlands are essential for the supply of oxygen and water to the city of Istanbul. The forests are also essential for their fauna: they provide a resting place...
Duy Phuong: Volatile States
All around us, our landscape is changing. As globalization casts its spores across Vietnam, the cities face the threat of losing their individuality in the process. Destruction shadows the course of construction, upheavals accompany installations, and buildings blossom overnight. The incessant replenishing of our environment results in the formation of...
Benedetta Ristori: Lay Off
In recent times many states have proceeded with a reshaping of working, intensifying the pace to cope with economic crisis due to the massive challenge and competition of the international markets. We are seeing a considerable increase in shifts of night work that, in the current organizational model of production,...