The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015, when an increasing number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union (EU) to seek asylum, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southern Europe. They came from areas such as Western and South Asia, Africa,...
Alina Fedorenko: Footprint
Athar Al Nabi is the name of a quarter in the south of Cairo, it is a low income neighborhood, alike a slum where people live in not the best conditions, garbage is a part of the daily sight.In spite of everything people fight for this place, against loosing a...
Hakim Boulouiz: Wax Dolls
Cities are growing day after day. Life is being transformed and accelerated in the middle of modernity. In this context, the urban body is vibrating and experimenting with new adventures. It sneaks between advertising, windows, showcases, colors, prints, shadows and lights. The urban body is reflected and conditioned through architecture....
Helena Falabino: Talk to Us
About her project says Helena: I strongly believe that the way we think about sex work has directly to do with how we perceive sexuality, our own and in general. I used to have an idea of sex work built upon what I knew from mainstream media, that hardly ever makes...
Rielle Oase: Lacking Warmth
About her "Lacking Warmth" project says Rielle: My grandmother’s crocheted hats and scarves at Christmas time were my evidence that I had a good family. These holiday traditions kept by my father’s family repeated themselves until our ritual became stale. We were cheap reproductions of Norman Rockwell’s ideal American family....
Sarah Blesener: Toy Soldiers
Over 200,000 youth are currently enrolled in clubs with 10,000 in Moscow. Each club functions independently with their own structures and philosophies. In 2015, a proposed program from the Russian government entitled the “Patriotic Education of Russian Citizens in 2016-2020” called for an eight percent increase in patriotic youth within...
Vinci Weng: My Wonderlands
In my experience in the practice of contemporary photography, it is fundamentally related to traditional skills, computer technology and notions of painting, which communicate new ways of seeing and thinking. The photographic project focuses on the re-thinking of ‘cinematographic’ picture in terms of the sceneries of Eastern and Western paintings,...
Natela Grigalashvili: Book of my Mother
My mother was born in the beginning of World War II in a small village. By this time her father was already in war, from where he didn’t return. She was ten years old when her mother died. She was hit by a train. I remember her saying once: “I...
Marie-Pierre Dieterlé: Martin Luther King Park
About "Martin Luther King Park" says Marie-Pierre: This series is an ongoing project about my neighbourhood under construction in Paris with a center park called "Martin Luther King". This area is widely cited as a role model for the « Grand Paris » with new environmental and architectural standards. I...
Dimitris Barounis: Pure South
The "other" side of Crete, mainly known through narratives which seems to have come out of a novel, unseen at first sight. Land and inhabitants in a complete interaction, traditional customs, often in a primitive mode, maintain their influential power through time. It's difficult for anyone who is not an...