Changing Landscape is a photographic research about landscape transfromations and urbanization along the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Says Barbara: Working on the concept behind the development of contemporary cities I question how natural and manmade environments are commonly represented and how they interact with each other in a country...
Gustavo Gusmão: Limbus
”Limbus” which means margin, edge, border, fringe. With this origin, the connotation of limbo is a state of being neglected, forgotten.” The cemeteries of Manila (the capital of the Philippines) are huge communities on the margins of society. With their own structures and manners of functioning, they are home to...
Jalal Shamsazaran: Without Hamoun
Hamoun has been dried and the wind blows everywhere. These days, Iranian people are dealing with environmental and economic problems. Climate changes, drought, reduction of raining, governmental mismanagement and drying the lakes and wetlands are the most important problems. Sistan in Southeast of Iran and in the boundary of Afghanistan...
Lucas O’Neil: The Underground
The Underground is a project in documenting Boston’s independent music community created by the young crowd, hosted in their countless basement and apartment venues. The project aims to capture the subtle energy, the details of what goes on at these events that one can’t normally find at a concert in...
Ece Gökalp: A Mountain As Many
A Mountain As Many is a research project on Mount Ağrı and its spectators. It focuses on the ways in which the mountain has been constructed through stories, myths and things that have happened around or on the mountain itself over the centuries, the combination of which has lead to...
Natela Grigalashvili: Life 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...
Moe Zoyari: Parallel Lives
By day, Tony spends time working as a restaurant manager in Hamburger Mary’s in Chicago, Illinois. Openly gay, this man makes a complete transformation into a drag queen once a week. Tony calls himself a manger by day and Tasha, a female impersonator by night. Tasha has been participating in...
Daniel George: Trigger Trash
Says Daniel: The term "Trigger Trash" is used by the United States Bureau of Land Management to describe firearm related waste found on federally owned, public land. In Eastern Idaho, recreational shooting is legal in these rural places, but it is unlawful to discard any targets, shrapnel, or debris. As...
Mary Gelman: Svetlana
In Russia, people have a lot of prejudice towards people with mental disorders. They are not considered full-fledged people with abilities to learn and socialize, they stay unemployed. But there is a place where everything is different. Svetlana is a unique social village in Russia, Leningrad Oblast. This Сamphill gives...
Anna Pantelia: Greece’s Dirty Secret
“My father died of Leukemia when I was 12. Four other men from his shift lost their lives from Leukemia.” - Kostas, a 32 year old man who works as a guard for the Greek Public Power Corporation (DEI) tells me. Kostas’ father was one of the many workers of...