There is an old legend the Abkhaz people like to tell to the visitors: When God gave each nation its place under the sun, the Abkhaz was too busy taking care of his guests so he came late and there was no land left for him. But God remembered the...
Jaeuk Lee: New Town
New Town is about the transformation of residential spaces through a large scale urban redevelopment project currently in progress in several South Korean cities. Old towns were forced by the government to be redeveloped for the sake of “progress”. They choose to create new spaces by eradicating existing areas to...
Antonio Guerra: Ver de Acción
“Ver de Acción” explores the limits between natural and cultural, creating an experience with landscape and space interaction. In order to do that, I use photography as a medium to create a veritable illusion and reveal the deceiving capability of landscape as a social construct, resorting to intervention and staging...
Avishek Das: The Faith of Life
Gajan is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Rural part of West Bengal. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of Chaitra continuing till the end of the Bengali year. It ends with Charak Puja Participants of this festival is known as Sannyasi or Devotee .Persons...
Katya Evdokimova: Here Was Vasya
The series is dealing with the theme of man’s relationship to nature. ’Zdesj byl Vasya’ [Здесь был Вася] – directly translating from Russian as ‘Here was Vasya’, is a phrase seen scribbled, more commonly than not, on a significant piece of architecture, a monument or another example of public or private...
Paulo Batalha: A Better Home Waiting in The Blue Sky
Says Paulo: This series represents part of a long-term project about immigration in my city, Sao Paulo, and my country, Brazil. I spent the last year accompanying the cult of a peculiar Pentecostal church located in Sao Paulo's downtown. It was created and is mostly attended by Nigerian immigrants which...
Yevgeny Nakonechnyy: Gold Bottom
Russia, Astrakhan and Volgograd regions. Baskunchak and Elton are one of the most amazing and the most saline lakes in the world. Unique landscapes reminiscent of other planets. According to one version of the lake Baskunchak name comes from the Turkic "Main camp". Lake Elton in Kazakh "Altyn-Nur" means "Gold...
Yannick Cormier: Theatre Land
The series Theatre Land arose when Yannick Cormier met Muruga Boopathy in 2015. The director of the theater company “Manalmagudi Theatre Land” is a descendant of a family of artists and intellectuals from Kovillpatti in Thoothukudi District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As the series evolved, it became a kind...
Bianca Salvo: The Universe Makers
The project The Universe Makers is the result of a research on space imagery and it aims to inquire on representative patterns and figurative models upon which our pop culture psyche bases and which still nowadays profoundly influence our attitudes toward the scientific and the outer space. Says Bianca: Through...
Gianluca Cecere: The Old Europe
The Old Europe is a project started ten years ago, in 2007, about the globalization seen as an investigation into the transformation of urban territory. The cultural homologation, meant as uniformity of the behaviors, of the models of life, of the consumptions, inevitably influences the landscape, simplifying and modifying irreversibly...