Since thousands of years, people visit the springs in the north of Greece. It is said that they have curative effects. Over the course of the economic crisis many state-owned spa resorts have been hurriedly abandoned by their administrations, leaving the sites to themselves. Today, left behind patient files are...
Ludovica Bastianini: In Your Place
According to estimates by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 13.5 million girls worldwide each year are forced to get married before turning 18 years old with men that are much older than them: 37,000 girls every day to whom, in fact, childhood is denied. Isolated, cut off from family...
Sutanta Aditya: Life Under The Deadly Shadows Of Sinabung Eruption
An estimated 30,000 people were displaced from their homes after Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra started erupting on June 2, 2010 - after 400 years of laying dormant. An eruption in 2010 killed two people and caught scientists off guard because the volcano had been quiet for...
Balint Alovits: Acclimate
Acclimate project was shot in Iceland and is about how an inhabited area is formed where natural conditions are basically unsuitable for human life. Project aims to represent how mankind adapts to extreme natural conditions by shaping its habitat and how man-made objects redefine raw nature while interacting with it....
Michele Martinelli: Mongolia’s Nomads
Silence is the protagonist of the boundless spaces that cross the horizon, an enveloping presence that forces one to look within and confront the reasons for a nature that prevails solemnly. The nomadic peoples of Mongolia live in perfect harmony with the earth and nature, far from the idea of...
Christina Czybik: The Beauty of Traditional Wedding Costumes in Germany
"Traditional Costumes in Germany" is a documentary portraiture series about traditional bridal costumes of Germany with the aim to preserve significant cultural-historical heritage. This project opens up the chance to discuss the role of women in our society and the process of emancipation. Christina Czybik - born and raised in Germany,...
Shannon Witz: Virunga’s Mountain Gorillas
Virunga National Park, DRC. Nov 2016 - this project is on the mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There is no doubt the DRC has a brutal past - it's people have been subjected to unspeakable acts of brutality over the years. It's...
Sergey Nazarov: The Sands of Kalmykia
Arid regions occupy 41% of terrestrial land. The destruction of soil leads to economical problems of the regions. In areas of increased desertification access to water becomes obstructed, the agricultural market is decreasing, unemployment and poverty are increasing. About one hundred million hectares in Russia are subjected to degradation. The soil...
Guillaume Pepy: Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita is first and foremost a journey to the end of the world, in the midst of the unsettling polar landscapes that fascinated explorers for so long. On the one hand the intriguing and mythical polar fauna, on the other the disorientating whiteness of the ice. Imagined from antiquity...
Alfredo Esparza: Terra Nullius
The name of this work comes from Latin, which in English translates as "nobody's land", a phrase used during European colonization to claim the land "discovered" as its own. Under this legal formula, the original inhabitants were stripped of their territory in order to be distributed among colonizers. In this...