Portrait of Hope, is a series of 10 portraits of crack addicted men and women, they live in the Favela da Maré, one of Rio de Janeiro's largest Favelas, dominated by drug traffickers, factional warfare, and military police are On the spot, crack sales are a major source of income...
Aleksey Ivanov: Nikel. The Lost Element.
Says Aleksey: The town of Nikel is one of the numerous single-industry towns in modern Russia. It is located in the North-Western part of the Kola Peninsula, 123 km North-West of Murmansk and a few kilometers from the Norwegian border. It was founded by Finnish companies in 1935 for the...
Sebastián Thomas: Navarino Island
Says Sebastián: In the summer of 2019 I set out on a cargo ferry from Punta Arenas to Wulla, the name that the Yagan people gave to Navarino Island prior to the European expeditions of the first half of the 19th century. It brought to mind the imaginary trips I...
Natela Grigalashvili: The Final Days of Georgian Nomads
Mountainous Adjara is one of the most distinguished regions of Georgia. The traditions and the old ways of life have been preserved to this day in this area. The isolation and alienation of inhabitants of this mountainous area has been an ongoing issue for a long time. Last several decades...
Daniel Mirer: Indifferent West
Indifferent West is a photographic and video series that investigates the personification of North American identity. The American West and it's touristic architectural locations are linked to a contemporary landscape as metaphors. Through this project, I photograph the found and sentimental representations of the mythic frontier of the American West....
Alisa Ganzharova: Asatru – Renewal
Today, a lot of people in the Western world consider themselves atheists, mostly because traditional dogmatic religions seem outdated. Meanwhile a new temple for the pagan religion of Vikings Asatru is being built in Iceland. This ancient faith was abandoned in favour of Christianity centuries ago, secretly practised for many...
Rory Doyle: Delta Hill Riders
A recent article in Smithsonian estimated that just after the Civil War, one in four cowboys were African American. Yet this population was drastically underrepresented in popular accounts. And it is still. The “cowboy” identity retains a strong presence in many contemporary black communities. This ongoing documentary project in the...
Enrico Doria: The Rahmeni Family
Says Enrico: The differences between the north and the south of Tunisia were accentuated after the "jasmine revolution" of 2011, and today, although many of the aspirations that have driven thousands of people to protest in the streets at that time have not been realized, the part of Tunisia closer...
Roman Demyanenko: Vorkuta
Vorkuta is situated in permafrost zone, 150 km from the Arctic Circle, only 180 km from the Arctic Ocean coastline, and it is the easternmost town in Europe. In 1930 Georgii Chernov’s expedition discovered the largest and best quality industrial coal fields in Eastern Europe near place where later was...
Ryan Debolski: LIKE
LIKE explores the physical and digital relationships of the migrant workers who build the infrastructure of Oman, a rapidly modernizing country rich in oil and natural gas. These men, predominantly from East Africa and the Indian subcontinent, send money home to support their families, communicating using widely available, low-cost smartphones...