This series includes the artist’s nighttime photographs taken in a small suburb in Norway for six months. The town is unfathomably different from the artist’s habits, daily practices, and the crowded urban setting he was born into, and unrealistically peaceful. It is, almost, a Wonder Land. But the artist takes...
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...
Julia Bezhanova: Disintegration
Reflecting on the themes of motherhood and bodily fatigue, Julia created a series of works of self-portraits called “disintegration”. For this surrealistic story, Julia created soft sculptures and collages from photographs of self-portraits. The visual inspiration for the project was the work of Hieronymus Bosch. In her work, Julia likes...
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...
Steven Burton: Skin Deep – Looking Beyond the Tattoos
Skin Deep is a portrait series that seeks to understand the impacts tattoos have on former gang members and people trying to escape the gang life. How we as a society judge ex-gang members with tattoos and ultimately how they judge themselves. Portraits are taken off the participants and their...
Gianfilippo De Rossi: Urban Landscape
Says Gianfilippo: Urban Landscape is a project that I have been carrying out for about 3 years. It arises from the need to find new ideas in the composition and architecture of the city of Los Angeles. In the megalopolis of over 10 million people the challenge is to find...
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...
Arvids Baranovs: Darkness/Light
Says Arvids: Winter in the Northern hemisphere is associated not only with cold, but also with darkness that dominates the half of the year. And with the lack of sunshine come the psychological struggles such as the so-called winter depression because the human body is not adapted to this kind...
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...