About Yourself. Hybrids is a self-portrait series that combines two themes into each single image: past and present, fears and expectations, childhood with adulthood. Series made in wet plate collodion, exactly in ambrotype. Marzena Kolarz – fine art photographer, born in Cracow, in 1979, Poland. Website: marzenakolarz.com
Harry Flook: Beyond What is Written
There is a strong divide between the conservative and liberal Christians in Tennessee, but the non-religious community is so small that it is completely overlooked. – Tad Beaty, Chattanooga Humanist Assembly. Beyond What is Written was created during a month spent photographing various non-religious communities in Tennessee; the ‘heart of...
Stepan Chubaev: Simplification
Says Stepan: Simplification is a visual research in which I am discovering how do different-colored objects affect on the perception of compositions, how do spots determine emotions and how do forms work with colors. The subtle line and the smallest point can make composition static or dynamic depending on where they...
Tatiana Bondareva: Boys
Boys from 14 to 18 years old who committed various crimes including hooliganism, rape and murder serve their sentences in the young offender institution in Saint-Petersburg. The conditions of detention in such institutions are much better compared to a regular prison in Russia. For many of the boys, who grew...
Tata Gorian: Copypaste
'Copypaste' is an observation of the ways in which the human living in a technocratic world continues recreating nature inside and outside the home. The imitation of the environment in artificial materials embodies the striving for immortality. Plastic flowers don’t fade; foam fruit will never rot. Natural subjects reduplicated in...
Margarita Khatmullina: Injury
Says Margarita: At the end of winter, I broke my arm. A fracture of the hand was difficult, I was offered to perform an operation and implant a titanium plate. And although my case is far from the first, nevertheless it seemed that my body is a kind of object of scientific...
Tom Finke: Spaces Between
About Spaces Between says Tom: The concept and construction of personal space is highly variable, both individually and culturally. I am often struck by the ways in which boundaries are marked between one home and another in Japanese cities. The astonishing density of urban populations leaves little room for expansive...
Alessio Cabras: Euclyptus
Says Alessio: Like a foreign object, like a no fruit tree that comes from afar. A plant that grows up with massive roots which sets up into the society: human hands that imprison the rich land for expel it exhausted out. Sardinia is the most militarized zone in Europe: more of...
Betty Bogaert: The Howling Mountain
Says Betty: A Sunday in February in the local newspaper, the wolf is on the cover. In Savoy, the growing presence of this protected species is a subject of debate. I choose to follow the wolf’s trail, or rather those who speak about it : farmers, shepherds, hunters, park wardens,...
Luther Gerlach: Thomas Fire Burn
The 2017 Thomas Fire is the largest in California history, an extreme example of an increasingly powerful destructive and creative cycle endemic to the region. The burn came within a quarter mile of my home, and as the smoke cleared, I was struck by how it had abstracted the landscape,...