About his award winning project "The Architecture of Sex" says Kurt: On my first trip to Cali, Colombia I lived for two weeks in a thematic love motel called Kiss Me. Motel Kiss Me, Cali’s largest and most popular love motel, has more than 180 rooms, each one with a different theme...
Fabian Muir: Shades of Leisure in North Korea
Mention of 'North Korea' evokes a very specific mental image, dominated by military parades, the leaders and the famine of the 1990s. Its reputation has deteriorated even further in 2017 with a surge in weapons testing and the tragic death of a detained US tourist. Even so, life in North...
Matthew Broadhead: Heimr
In 1965 and 1967 NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey organized field trips to Iceland for American astronauts to learn geology in locations described as ‘terrestrial analogue sites’. Also called ‘space analogues’, they are places on Earth with assumed past or present geological, environmental or biological conditions of a celestial...
Carolina Santana: Guaicurus
Walking through my city in a street (Guaicurus), it exist since the city was established, called "zone" of prostitution, I began to wonder: How are these women? How lead their lives? What are your wishes? I decided to go into their rooms and photographing they naked. Nakedness reveals much, exposure...
Bruno Gori: How Deep is the Sea
About his project says Bruno: This project was inspired by a song called “Com’è profondo il mare” (How deep is the sea), written and sung by the Italian singer Lucio Dalla. In addition to groped to visually recreate the musical influences I have deliberately altered the characteristics of the subjects to...
Balarka Brahma: Forward Pass
In 2003, a group called the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee started a residential home for kids from various brothel colonies at Baruipur, a small town near Kolkata. The group, long active in advocating for the rights of brothel workers in Kolkata, felt the need to do something for the children...
Ikuru Kuwajima: Tundra Kids
In the arctic tundra of Russia, there is a boarding school for the Nenets, the nomadic northern indigenous people. The children study and live there to receive formal education from autumn to spring. From April to September, they are with their families and reindeers in the middle of the tundra,...
Jennifer Georgescu: Mother Sers
When you are a mother you are expected to be selfless, and any utterance of a challenge or obstacle will be seen as a complaint. Motherhood is a profession with no breaks or guidance, and the time and effort you put forth goes relatively unnoticed. In 2015, through good fortune,...
Valentin Bianchi: The Hope To Exist
A few weeks after the last bombardments on Gaza, life trying to recover. The destroyed buildings are almost all rebuilt, however, some traces are still visible. Most promises are not respected. The fishing area is not expanded steadily, hospitals are desperately short of medecine, electrics cuts are still too frequent....
Adel Koleszar: New Routes of Faith
About her project seys Adel: 'New Routes of Faith' is a photographic documentary based on the research of new religious movements which exclusively originated in Mexico. I seek to capture religious practices, devotees as well as their living environments in a personal documentary style. These alternative faiths are adapted to...