The Republic of Moldova was part of the Soviet Union. Today, it is an independent country with a self-declared Transnistrian region in the East, an autonomous Turkish-speaking Gagauzian province in the South, a border to Ukraine to the North, one to Romania and the EU to the West. Photographing the...
Ksenia Sidorova: Simplex
Says Ksenia: My project focuses on young people in large Russian cities who are running away from their daily reality, transforming into fantastic creatures of imagination, or simply identifying themselves with someone else. My heroes are reenactors, streamers, role players, saberfighters, cosplayers, reenactors of historical dances, strikeball players. They engage in"for...
Vesa Pihanurmi: Floating City
These architectural abstractions extract the images of the buildings out of their real world surroundings and place them upon abstract art context. This makes us pay attention to the details, colors and geometry of the partly worn out and even centuries old architecture on a completely different way. The images...
Danial Khodaie: Silent Death
Since 2002, Khuzestan province of Iran has been engulfed by dust storms. This phenomenon is an environmental crisis and poses numerous health concerns for the citizens of Khuzestan. The main center of production of dust is from inside Iran,but dusts that are blown over from neighboring country-Iraq- exacerbates the conditions....
Valeria Cherchi: Barbaria
June, 1992: The upper part of his ear was found by a priest on the edge of a mountainous road in Barbagia, central Sardinia. The young boy, Farouk, was spending his fifth month in a hidden cave, in company of minute forest animals and a group of masked strangers. The...
Marica Kolcheva: Valon Kaupunki / City of Light
Relationships between Nordic people and light have always been special. Finish people live with almost no sunlight during the long winters and than nature gives them 24 hours of it in the summers. I spent one month (August 2017) in the region of Jyväskylä, Finland, trying to convey this intense...
Arito Nishiki: Namikake
By southern coastline of Niigata City is located in northern part of the Sea of Japan. A village sank into the sea by a coastal erosion called "Namikake" in their region. In the darkness of night on this coast, it takes a long time to adjust my vision. Once my...
Michela Ronco: Bari, I searched the city
Says Michela: Analysing the city of Bari, I focused my attention on the city planning and how it influences the contemporary lifestyle of its inhabitants. Starting from the Libertà neighbourhood, I searched for the city in all its complexity. Nowadays, the XIXth Century origin of its structure contributes to the...
Javier Corso: MATAGI
Matagi are traditional hunters living in small villages and settlements in the highlands of northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. From its origins, back in the middle of the XVI century, they have made a living by selling meat, skins and other products derived from the hunting. Its main...
Stephanie Gengotti: Amori Nomadi / Circus Love
The Circus. Perhaps there is nothing more anachronistic. A legacy of a past millennium, kept alive in microcosms on the fringe of reality, in many of the forgotten European States. They manifest for pleasure and nostalgia of times now buried among the ruined pages of worn history books. The Circus...