Says Lebohang: With the scotching sun piercing the skin, I spent weeks walking along the gravel roads of the small town Nieu Bethesda in the Karoo, Eastern Cape which the residents call a village, a term foreign in my vocabulary. Shawn Graaff - an American young woman who lives between...
Fernando Montiel Klint: Dystopia
Dystopia refers to an anti-utopia, where the promise of modernity to improve the quality of life of man happens to take the form, rather, of a Hypermodernity (Lipovetsky), full of contradictions. The present work seeks to project these issues into the near future. They are reflections about the transition to...
Ewa Doroszenko: The Promise of Sublime Words
Sophisticated editing tools, popular beauty apps, computer games are shifting our perception of what beauty is. We try to categorize and compartmentalize our world in oppositions: there is the digital and there is the physical; there is the nature and there is the culture. In actuality, none of these elements...
Miguel Brusch: The Black Pool
Blackpool on England‘s northwest coast is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the UK. But despite an increasing number of tourists, the town‘s economic and social situation is precarious: Hundreds of hotels are in a state of decay, the unemployment and drug abuse rates are among the highest...
Arseniy Neskhodimov: Prozac
Says Arseniy: This is an ongoing project that I started two years ago. I called it Prozac after a famous antidepressant prescribed for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Most people, including myself, suffer from depression every so often. I have tried taking medication in the past but they didn’t...
Silas Bahr: Semjase’s Friend
We see and we believe - despite knowing about possible manipulations. Almost since the beginning of photography, photographers use the power of the medium to draw attention to grievances and injustices while others try to abuse this weapon for their own interests. The series"Semjase's Friend" plays with this inherent indexical...
Benjamin Le Brun: The Center of Spare-time Activities
The project “The Center of Spare-time Activities” stages models playing the role of tourists in a chosen scenery: commercial areas in suburban zones. It illustrates the current mutation of malls, especially in France, through absurd and derision. These places aim at attracting more customers by providing spare-time activities. From the...
Philipp Gallon: An Anthology of Common Conversation
An Anthology of Common Conversation is a series of photographs exploring recent social and political changes in the USA from a queer European perspective. The long-term project depicts America, its people, and their surroundings, and attempts to create a visual archive focusing on subjective experience and individual encounters rather than...
Nathalie Daoust: Korean Dreams
Photographer Nathalie Daoust’s newest project, Korean Dreams, is a complex series that probes the unsettling vacuity of North Korea. Piercing its veil with her lens, these images reveal a country that seems to exist outside of time, as a carefully choreographed mirage. Daoust has spent much of her career exploring...
Michael Koch: Eternal Collection
In his series "eternal collection" Michael Koch combines photographs of nature and science and its (re)presentation. The pictures in this series are about the space between the imagined and real. Taken in his studio and museums of natural history around Europe, the photographs show bones, skulls and animals isolated from...