The project presents photographs that depicts pieces of discarded photo paper which were found in the former KGB “Patarei” prison photography darkroom in Tallinn, Estonia. Photography in the context of KGB prisons was mainly used as a documenting tool and was very controlled, capturing the subject, and recasting him as...
Sergey Nazarov: Against
A new surge of protest activity covered almost all regions of Russia in 2017. The number of participants in protest actions was different depending on the regions, but undoubtedly, these actions can be called the most numerous and large-scale protests since 2012. Tens of thousands of people came to the...
Emmanuel Monzon: Urban Sprawl – Emptiness
Says Emmanuel: I like to play/'mix' two approaches: The codes of the new topographics and the concept of "in between-two states" inspired by the anthropologist Marc Auge under the name of non-places. I like transitional places, like intersections or passages from one world to another, such as from a residential...
Joanna Mrowka: Broniszow, Far From The City
This is ongoing project. Broniszów, a small post-farmer village in the Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland. The public bus doesn't run there every day. The brickyard being the main workplace for the village residents was closed many years ago. The school was also closed. "Dad sometimes goes abroad." Casual jobs allow for...
Marie Mons: Aurore Colbert
Marie Mons spent three winter months in a small village in the eastern fjords of Iceland, where she became Aurore. She embodied her character allowing surprise to play a large part, evoking the winter, its polar nights and the rhythm that it induces through a great shamanic ritual resembling a...
Venetia Menzies: 21st Century Bedouin
'21st Century Bedouin' is a documentary project that explores how nomadic life in Algeria has been radically transformed over the past century, through events such as French colonisation, civil war and mass urban migration. The project examines this change through the lens of an individual family, whose story is told...
Sébastien Michaud: Supermarket Landscape
Says Sébastien: The photographs which make up the Supermarket Landscape are non-other than the snow banks which can be found in our shipping mall parking lots every winter. They depict the snow that is plowed and pushed aside in a forgotten corner to allow the effective operational and economic activity...
Claudio Menna: Life, Death And Miracles
Rione Sanità is a popular and historical district of Naples located inside the city belly, known by most for the every day news about criminal organizations, drugs dealing, murders and baby gangs, as almost every popular districts in Naples. Despite its recent emancipation where cultural aggregation points and associations are...
Kathy Anne Lim: Salt Meets Ice
“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.” ― Italo Calvino Says Kathy: We are driving to Höfn, in south-east Iceland, on a journey defined by dramatic, ever-changing geography and unpredictable weather. Wind whistles and carves through the landscape, and we turn the steering wheel 11 degrees to...
Alice Mann: Maximum Effect
Says Alice: Following the period of African Independence from colonial rule, there are numerous contemporary challenges facing African citizens, compelling many people to migrate towards the more prosperous regions outside of the continent. In Congolese society, there is great significance attached to being able to create a new life within...