The 2017 Thomas Fire is the largest in California history, an extreme example of an increasingly powerful destructive and creative cycle endemic to the region. The burn came within a quarter mile of my home, and as the smoke cleared, I was struck by how it had abstracted the landscape,...
Sébastien Bridot: Nowhereland
Nowhereland is a concentrate of images from different potentially antithetical geographical places, which, confronted with each other, form a surreal, intriguing, unique world, nevertheless bearing witness to a multiple universality - the Nowhereland. Through this mixture of heterogeneous landscapes and architectures, natural and anthropic elements, presences and absences, Nowhereland is...
Mehrdad Afsari: Forty – A Treatise on Terrene Traverse
This project inspired by an ancient Persian Philosophers: Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi's treaties on "Light". Landscapes of different geographical areas in Iran have been photographed with medium format digital camera. Statement of the series is a retell text according to Suhrawardi's treaties: Where these two lines begin is a point...
Giulio Di Sturco: Ganga Ma
A symbol of spirituality as old as Jerusalem and Athens, the Ganges River has become the first non-human entity in India to be granted the same legal status as that of human beings. The river goddess Ganga once flowed wild and free, ripping through the Indian landscape with vigor and...
Katya Evdokimova: Here Was Vasya
The series is dealing with the theme of man’s relationship to nature. ’Zdesj byl Vasya’ [Здесь был Вася] – directly translating from Russian as ‘Here was Vasya’, is a phrase seen scribbled, more commonly than not, on a significant piece of architecture, a monument or another example of public or private...
Yevgeny Nakonechnyy: Gold Bottom
Russia, Astrakhan and Volgograd regions. Baskunchak and Elton are one of the most amazing and the most saline lakes in the world. Unique landscapes reminiscent of other planets. According to one version of the lake Baskunchak name comes from the Turkic "Main camp". Lake Elton in Kazakh "Altyn-Nur" means "Gold...
Mael Le Golvan: Ecumene
These photographs question our relationship to the landscape and the natural environment through a construction of space by light. The term "ecumene" is used in particular by the geographer Augustin Berque, to describe the relation of the human to his environment, a relationship both concrete and sensitive, symbolic and technical....
Matteo Redaelli: Looking for Balance
Looking for Balance is a project that investigates the inbred draw to nature every human being experiences in the modern context of globalization, reconnecting the sense of peacefulness wild, unspoiled landscapes instill in those who are consumed by the cogs of modern society. Collecting beautiful vistas between Italy and New...
Arito Nishiki: Namikake
By southern coastline of Niigata City is located in northern part of the Sea of Japan. A village sank into the sea by a coastal erosion called "Namikake" in their region. In the darkness of night on this coast, it takes a long time to adjust my vision. Once my...
Anakin Fox: In The Middle Of Nowhere
Says Anakin: Scandinavian adventure to watch Aurora Borealis in most possible remote nature. Landscape so frozen, remote and abandoned that you can feel like first and only man on the moon. Most interesting is that even you can't see anything but snow, fog and clouds, you have no chance to estimate...