Every September one of the most popular Catalan “Correfocs” is taking place in Barcelona for La Mercè, a festivity for the Patron Saint of the city. The “Correfoc” is a pyrotechnical display inherited from a medieval practice known as “Ball de Diables” (Dance of the Demons) born, according to the...
Mariam Amurvelashvili: Take Me Home
These portraits are of people and the dogs that they adopted from shelters and the streets of Georgia. The laws and regulations on the matter of animal rights are still developing in Georgia, therefore many animals are abused, abandoned, killed daily. Says Mariam: Every day I witnessed how young people...
Tatiana Afinogenova: Fabulous Nights Of Russian Province
Says Tatiana: My project is dedicated to one of my favorite genres of photography - night landscape. Since childhood, I liked to walk until late at night and admire the beautiful starry sky. Thanks to my camera, I can share with the viewer the fabulous atmosphere that I feel while...
Romeo Alaeff: In der Fremde – Pictures from Home
In der Fremde: Pictures from Home is a cinematic view of Berlin through the lens of an eternal outsider. Framed by Alaeff’s complex cultural background, spanning from Yemen to the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Israel/Palestine, and the United States, the images are tinged with a deep sense...
María Abenia: Ulises
Says Maria: Ulises is the result of a selection of photographs taken during 2013 and 2018 in my trips to Mexico, South Korea and Spain. All the selected images express by themselves the brand of an era - starting by its digital nature- , as well as my particular affinity...
Milan Sachs: All the Bricks are Wood
“All the Bricks are Wood,” shot on 35mm film, is a depiction of my obsession to reveal a non-fictional Los Angeles. This obsession began when I toured Universal Studios. After passing Bates Motel and Whoville, my uncle and I arrived at a manicured suburban cul de sac. We looked into...
Ruben Salgado Escudero: Solar Portraits
The International Energy Agency estimates that roughly 1.1 billion people in the world still live without access to electricity. In many communities throughout the world, most all rural labor is still unmechanized, candles - which are both expensive and dangerous – are the only source of light available once the...
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,...
Francesca Catastini: Petrus
Petrus reflects on a certain rhetoric of masculinity in Western culture. It is about the human drive to define ourselves and the world through a definite form. Form is never stable though. It is the ever-changing result of a never-ending tension between forces pushing from within and pressures coming from...