Techirghiol, derived from (Turkish) Tekir’s lake, is a small Romanian town on the Black Sea famous for its therapeutic mud discovered by an old Turkish man and his donkey. There are several variations of the story and its origins, but all share the same principle: the thick black mud (highly-concentrated...
Vincenzo Labellarte: Omnia Mutantur
Says Vincenzo: Everything changes, through space and time. The cities we live in are a constantly mutating organism stratified during the centuries. Rome, in particular, reveals the traces of its changes: the first defensive walls establishig an impassable limit nowadays go across the main railway station of the city, a...
Andrea Foligni: Fakescapes
The European Landscape Convention (Florence, Italy, October 2000) defines the landscape «an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors». The concept of this work is the perception of landscapes. The conception and the representation of landscapes have...
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...
Anna Pantelia: Greece’s Dirty Secret
“My father died of Leukemia when I was 12. Four other men from his shift lost their lives from Leukemia.” - Kostas, a 32 year old man who works as a guard for the Greek Public Power Corporation (DEI) tells me. Kostas’ father was one of the many workers of...
Sui Sawada: Self-Flowering
Blooming flowers are in the most unstable position in the course of life's activities that repeat life and death. It melts into my own mental scenery and it has been projected many times as if it symbolizes the spirit of the self, which shakes in the space between life and...
Ruta Krau: Rough Brutalism
Toronto-based photographer Ruta Krau has captured stunning photographs of the Andrews Building, one of Canada’s most noted brutalist buildings, and a celebrated part of Toronto’s concrete architecture. Designed by John Andrews, architect of Toronto’s iconic CN Tower, the Andrews Building embodies the Modernist ethos of connecting with the surrounding environment,...
Valerio Figuccio: The Dystopian Nature of Things
The Dystopian Nature of Things emerges from a long journey of 8 months between Australia and Asia during 2017/2018. In this work I'm particularly interested in recreate an unreal perception of reality through the connection of different elements. With particular attention to details and contrast between lights and shadows, the...
Fernanda Frazao: Amazon B Side
Says Fernanda: Working with travel photography in the last years, I could experiment tourism in its multiples dimensions. One of its aspects that really fascinates me is its democratization. In the last decade, Brazilian middle class increased its expenses on tourism by 277%. Displacement, besides being more frequent, is more...
Alice Oliver: 5p
When was the last time you saw a plastic bag on the side of the road and thought 'Art'? Actually when was the last time you saw a plastic bag on the side of the road and thought anything? Are we blind to this form of pollution? 5 trillion plastic...