In 1991, Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union in the aftermath of its dissolution at the end of the Cold War. Following independence, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state. In 2013, protests against the government of President Yanukovych broke out in downtown Kiev after the government made the...
Carla Shapiro: To Capture a Shadow
To Capture a Shadow project by Carla Shapiro represent an intuitive reimagining of moments and experiences through a subtractive and additive process. Shapiro’s work process includes a reworking of the original photographic image in many layers of manipulation — in camera as she photographs, through scratching the film, reworking as...
Karen Khachaturov: Pastel Poetry
Surreal concepts by Karen Khachaturov is about the madness of the beautiful world,about the people that are surrounded with colorful vibe,but not noticing that.Most of the concept were done during 2016 and had been exhibited in Armenia,Yerevan in the same year.I call most of the images surreal. Karen Khachaturov is...
Amadeus Waldner: First Steps of a City
Seestadt, north of Vienna - one of the largest European urban development project of recent decades. Where fox and hare said good night just a few years ago, skyscrapers and office complexes shoot from the ground like mushrooms. 240 hectares are to be developed over the next ten years. This...
Luana Rigolli: In Aqua Salus
The ancient Romans knew the thermal springs flowing under Salsomaggiore, but the doctor Lorenzo Berzieri was the first one to understand the great curative properties of that water, in 1839. It was the beginning of a great success, based on the new thermal tourism, unprecedented for this small and rural...
George Curzon: Cymbeline’s Child
Imogen, Shakespeare's heroine in Cymbeline, King of Britain, overcomes adversity in her quest for the truth, and in turn discovers herself. The portrayal of Imogen in Cymbeline is that of ideal womanhood. The challenges she faces test her character and her relationships throughout this physical and psychological journey. Nervous innocence,...
Ranita Roy: Flood in West Bengal, India
The floods of West Bengal have an exceptional peculiarity. Though the state receives heavy rainfall, yet it’s mostly affected by water from adjoining states or countries. The stagnated condition of the Mahananda river in the Northern region affects Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur, Malda and relatively affected Darjeeling....
Daria Garnik: Gagarin
The triumphal and tragically broken life of Yuri Gagarin - the first human to journey into outer space – made him the cult hero of the Soviet mythology and the central figure of scientific and atheistic propaganda of the USSR. Space exploration was one of the priority directions of domestic...
Karin Crona: Duckface
This is the meeting between a series of nude self portraits and a box of women's magazines found at a garage sale. Published in 1967-69, their pages show the kind of society I was born into - naked as a baby girl, with no idea where I had landed. I...
Markus Kaesler: Shadows on Concrete
The texture of the material concrete creates in interaction with light spaces, that seem to be free of geographical determinants. Photographs emerge, that may not be located, and, through the absence of any cultural affiliation, contain the freedom to be viewed without prejudices. They cross the borders in our heads...