In what way does human sensory perception take place in a high-tech world for connections outside of what is apparently possible? For us humans, perception is first of all the recognition of an object or state in our immediate environment with the help of our 5 senses: smell, see, taste,...
Xiaopeng Liu: Petrichor
Petrichor is a photographic project that examines the exploration of my own existence. An untamed horse, the dome of a mottled palace, the silent sea, and a pathway that leads me toward nowhere. All of these visions have constantly revisited me. By recording these scenes which keep appearing in my...
Seb Agnew: Grown-Syncope-Epiphany
As an ongoing body of work, the three series Grown, Syncope and Epiphany examine individual stages of human reflection, which are interlinked with one another. Grown primarily deals with the border between childhood and adulthood – if there is any – and raises the question of what becomes of early...
Işık Kaya: Second Nature
With the uprise of mobile devices, the infrastructural needs of the telecommunication industry have exploded, and since the 1980s, cell towers have started to fill the cityscapes. The scenery changed dramatically when the first antenna was transformed into an artificial pine tree in 1992 by a company called Larson Camouflage:...
Swen Bernitz: Landmarks
Landmarks is a conceptual documentation of architectural art objects on former mining dumps in the Ruhr area of Germany. The Ruhr area has been significantly impacted by industrialisation and mining over the last 200 years. As the coal was extracted from underground, inevitably the surrounding rock was also mined. This...
Satyadeep Singh: Thy Kingdom Come
According to a report by World Christian Database, Nepal has one of the fastest growing Christian populations in the world. Interestingly, as many as 65% of Christians are Dalits, according to the Federation of National Christian Nepal. In 2017, Christian conversion and evangelisation was criminalised by the Nepal government. As...
Julia Abzaltdinova: CHAD
This work shows collective social image of a certain category of people through a general portrait of a contemporary “man in a case”. He is an average office worker always wearing business suit, doing routine work every day, suspecting and some times realising that he lives a grey, sad and...
Teresa Eng: China Dream
China Dream explores the fractured identity of the second generation diaspora as they’re straddled their birth country and their motherland. Teresa Eng, whose parents immigrated to Canada from China via Hong Kong, sought out to explore her ancestral homeland between 2013-2017. Teresa’s cultural knowledge of a country which she has...
Javier Clemente Martinez: Sumaj Orck’o
The Cerro de Potosí, also known as the Cerro Rico de Potosí, and in the Quechua language as Sumaj Orck'o ("beautiful hill"); named Sumaj Orck'o before its plunder and subsequent exploitation by the Spanish Empire, which began 475 years ago. Now, the name of "beautiful hill" sounds ironic. The Mines...
Marco Zedler: LAND
In LAND the photographer and author deals with the cultural land of his surroundings. Useable area - a sober term which, on closer inspection, seems to be appropriate for a large part of the agricultural cultivated land. Collective consciousness, on the other hand, usually associates man-made landscapes with concepts such...