The religion of the Yazidis is one of the oldest religious traditions that exists today and gets practised since more than 4000 years. Their belief is monotheistic and they pray for the sun and elements as a natural wonder, created by God for their benefit. That is why they see...
Pavel Volkov: Playing with Darkness
About his project says Pavel: Sergey Mangos story for me is an example of outstanding human strength and power - not only physical but also spiritual. For the first time I saw Sergey near one Moscow underground station in a rush hour. He was standing near the entrance, not very...
Andrea Di Martino: Chateaux!
In China red brings good luck. Maybe this is why the Chinese are drinking more wine than before, the vineyards are increasing and wineries are growing visibly. France with its "chateaux" is the reference model: large vineyards in farms dominated by ancient castles. To copy this successful iconography, in recent...
Jose David Valiente: Insomnia
Insomnia is a ongoing project that has been developed during the past 2 years. Due the economic crisis I was forced to move back to my hometown. Coming back to a village, where there is nothing to do, where everyone knows you and it seems to controls your life, made...
Nadav Ariel: The Face of the Tribe
Says Nadav: This is an ongoing project, that has began few years ago, when I started to “collect” young Israelis, who gave me a strong impression or influenced me in some way, and photograph them in various parts of the country. Through the filming process I seek to better understand their...
Gleb Simonov: Nevertheless
About his Nevertheless series says Gleb: The key properties that I focus on are small movements, silence, voluntary immobility, inanimate observation, pointing. It's an attempt to create a proposition, in which the barely visible harmonies of the outside are suggested to be the driving qualities through which the meaningfulness of the world...
Christian Werner: Rubble and Delusion
With the fall of Aleppo, the regime of Bashar Assad once again controls the country's second-largest city. But is reconciliation possible in the country? A journey through the dictator's rump state, to have a deeper look in the everyday life in Assad's Syria. Christian Werner is a freelance multimedia/photojournalist based...
Tony McAteer: City +
Both thrilling and frightening, massive growth of cities is one of the global features of our time. These photographs look at striking city developments in regions that have been at the forefront of this growth. The photographs include brand new skylines, extensive landscaping, ambitious infrastructure, sprawling housing and extravagant architecture....
Elvira Kolerova: Figures and Incidents
In the ongoing photographic project with the working title “Figures and Incidents” (2016-2017) Elvira Kolerova explores the aesthetics, manipulative techniques and the stylistic construction of the probably least respected film genre ‒ the slasher film. By using the visual language of slasher movies combined with vivid colors, strong contrasts and...
Mark Wohlrab: Monte Kali
At the sight of these mountains one feels, on the one hand, encouraged to give in to the aesthetics of the mountain landscape, but on the other hand it is irritated and horrified by this heap, dumped by human hands into the landscape. Over 150 million tonnes of salt produced...