Oseyev is the abandoned city in Russian Federation. It was designed as an innovative housing cluster based on the concept of self-sufficiency. However, due to economic miscalculations, construction errors and poor infrastructure planning, it gradually lost its financial attractiveness, began to empty and ended up by becoming a kind of...
Clea Rekhou: Monsieur
Many stories have been told about domestic violence, but we have been excluding one key character from the conversation. Men. Monsieur is a project about men attending the only rehabilitation center in France for perpetrators of domestic violence. All of them have either been sentenced or have acknowledged the facts...
Karol Palka: Edifice
Edifice is a visual journey back to a time most people would like to forget. Karol Pałka documents buildings that have survived the Communist regime, which years ago rolled over Central and Eastern Europe. The photographs show the interiors of the Polana Hotel, a closed holiday facility once owned by...
Nicola Muirhead: The Last Place On Earth
‘The Last Place on Earth’ is a multi-chaptered narrative that seeks to explore the complex identities and cultural inheritance of one of the last remaining British Overseas Territories on earth, the island of Bermuda. Born and raised in this community, this documentary is both a personal journey and an investigation...
Simone Mizzotti: Ningbo Polytechnic
[...] Zhu Jian moves as if he was afraid of going wrong; has been in Ningbo for two years, before long - without great ceremonies - he will celebrate eighteen. Think about enrolling in the course driving on campus, although it is unlikely that he will need the car or...
Schore Mehrdju: The Second
The Second is a project about the increasing number of polygynous marriages in Tajikistan. Polygyny is a patriarchal practice which refers to the marriage of one man to two or more wives at a time. „A woman without a husband is nothing here.“ Says Schore: After years of Soviet domination...
Nadia Vuilleumier: There Was Someone, There Was No One
This photographic long-term ongoing project invites you to discover the work of a Swiss photographer living in Southern Iran, fascinated by this little known and poorly understood country. Neither the portrait of a place nor a documentary – although never staged – it is a voluntarily non-political body of work:...
Jorge López Muñoz: EL CLOT
“I didn’t know why I was photographing gypsies, but I did know that I was building something and that I had to embrace it all”. – Josef Koudelka. This is a project of artistic documentary and portrait photography. The Clot neighborhood has virtually disappeared, with the only remains left standing...
Egor Kirillov: Melting Cities
Murmansk is the largest city in the polar circle. 310 thousand people lived there in 1971. In 20 years the population has grown to almost half a million. This was due to the growth of the fishing and naval industries and huge progress in all areas of city life. People...
Tadas Kazakevicius: Soon to be Gone
Says Tadas: As far back as in the 1930s, during the times of the Great Depression in the United States, a group of photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Jack Delano, led by Roy Stryker, Head of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), kept restlessly recording views which were...