“Tzniut means modesty, dignity, demureness. It is the way to embellish the human being, hiding what only in intimacy shall be revealed.” - The Secret of Jewish Femininity. Says Natalia: In the Jewish religion, modesty is a means to create privacy. The veiling of married Jewish woman’s hair is motivated...
Philippe Braquenier: Earth Not a Globe
The continents float on an endless ocean which somehow has a layer of rock and fire underneath it. Earth is a disc under a glass dome and the lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic ocean, bordered by a 150-foot-tall circular...
Marcela Barrios Hernandez: Bazuko
Says Marcela: Bazuko is a classic portraits series that aims to document the world of drug addicts in Medellin-Colombia. The word "bazuko" comes from English word "bazooka" and this drug is similar to crack and is extremely toxic. Most of this persons are pushed in their quotidian to steal, prostitute...
David Arribas: Jaula
In today's society of social networks these thoughts tempt millions of people whose ambition to turn their personal appearance into a brand identity pushes an obsession for the image that, however, comes from time ago. In 1689 Dr. Richard Morton sees the first documented patient of what he would call...
Swen Bernitz: ESSEN 51
The photo series "ESSEN 51" deals with the post-industrial transformation of an urban landscape. The Krupp cast steel factory, the nucleus of the later Krupp armaments group and German heavy industry, was built on the site shown at the beginning of the 19th century. Strongly destroyed in World War II,...
Nicholas Constant: Firn
Firn is the Swiss-German word for a type of snow in between snow and ice. This is an analogy for the current situation Bosnia have been in, inbetween reform and war. Firn also means ‘before’ so it is talking about a past event. 20 years after the end of conflict,...
Francisco Ibáñez: Non-Structures
The series ‘Non-Structures’ presents London – and cities in general – as a spectacle of constant conflict, negotiation and flux. Capturing key moments in the life of diverse buildings, the images reveal a condition of transience, trapped as these buildings and sites are between the boundaries of architecture and ruin,...
Susana Girón: 90 Varas
The Alarcon family is one of the last families who still work as nomadic shepherds in Spain and Europe. In the heart of Europe, the phenomenon of transhumance has survived for centuries: families of shepherds that migrate through the territory by foot with their animals in search of better pastures,...
Elliott Verdier: A Shaded Path
This is the story of a former Soviet republic landlocked in central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, home to six million people, esteemed for its nomadic traditions, its yurts, its horses, its breathtaking mountainous landscapes and steppe… It holds a less perceptible decor, less alluring perhaps, distant from the stereotypes and necessary embellishments...
Austin Irving: Show Caves
Show Caves is a collection of large format photographs that explores the anthropocentric tendencies of modern tourism seen in domestic and international show caves. "Show Caves" are natural caves that are managed and modified by government or commercial organizations to accommodate tourists. The objective of this body of work is...