space equal to itself which rises or denies itself Mallarmé “Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne-Atlas is an unfinished attempt to map the pathways that give art history and cosmography their pathos-laden meanings. Warburg thought this visual, metaphoric encyclopedia, with its constellations of symbolic images, would animate the viewer’s memory, imagination, and understanding...
Simone Mizzotti: Beautiful Paradise
The pictures were taken at the Parco del Gran Paradiso in Valle d’Aosta region, Italy. The project shows the white figures in a moment of break, the idea is to bring out the nature, playing with a bit of irony with the presence of these sisters in a heavenly environment....
Katerina Shmidtke: People of Taiga
About her project "People of Taiga" says Katerina: This is a project about life in the solitude of taiga - tenacious of life, hardworking, hand in hand people who live in villages far away along Pinega river, being almost cut off from the rest of the world. The development of...
Momo Mustafa: River Erosion
Vola is one of the most affected districts in Bangladesh due to overall climate changes effect. River erosion is the main form of this climate changes effect in Vola. Almost 7% of cultivated land is being vanished every year here. Many houses of this area have gone under river already....
Mirjana Vrbaski: Verses of Emptiness
Inspired by Byzantine iconography, Verses of Emptiness explores the iconic potential of the photographic portrait. Rather than using the portrait to capture a person’s likeness, Verses of Emptiness asks whether an image of an ordinary person can rise above the portrayed, transcend them, and in doing so reveal a more...
Anna Filipova: Research at the End of the World
Ny-Ålesund is situated on the 79th parallel north on Svalbard archipelago, which makes it the most northerly permanent civilian settlement in the world. It houses the largest laboratory for modern Arctic research in existence. It has a very restricted access both because of the scientific project that are conducted and...
Julien Coquentin: Black Seasons
About Black Seasons series says Julien: I do not know when exactly this series started. Without a doubt not in the first picture. I think all this goes back much further, beyond my own memory. Some images which tumble out: a priest dressed in a long black cape, walking in...
Fulvio Bugani: Twilight
The ancient traditions and the call of the ancestors are the forces that drive some populations to stay connected to inhospitable places, which they perceive as part of their group identity. The seasonal return to these remote areas, is a return to tradition, a rediscover of their roots and a...
Alexandra Polina: Myths, Masks and Subjects
The protagonists of the photo series are members of visible minorities who were born, raised and educated in Germany. These images deal with a social gap created by prejudiced stigmatized view and use clichéd folkloric settings and common stereotypes to question it. The result is a collage of individual experiences, based...
Luca Marianaccio: Buffetto All’italiana
Define exactly what a city signifies is very complicated. The reason is that human habitat is basically instable. Cities are in an ever occurring mutation. We know in every moment that we are urged by the consequences a good or bad architectural environment produces on us: if it didn’t have...