This series of portraits is focused on the life of gay people in Russia. It is a visual tale of melancholy, loneliness and uncertainty about the future. In Russia the level of intolerance toward homosexuality has been rising sharply. A 2013 survey found that 74% of Russians said homosexuality should...
Peter Ydeen: Easton Nights
Since the close of 2015 Peter Ydeen has been photographing at night in the Easton Pennsylvania area. Starting with images of George Tice's elegant night shots in mind, it soon matured into much more than he had expected. The night has it's own visual rules, it's own color wheel, and...
Kathryn Hodgkins: Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Loves Me, Loves Me Not is a series of ten 16 x 24” Chromaluxe prints of scanned artificial flowers, some of which were moved as the light passed underneath for a glitching effect. Much of the research for this project focused on the folklore and meanings of flowers. The end...
Stefano Miliffi: Une Nouvelle Identitè
“Identity is not immutable, but growth and social changes can contribute to its evolution”. This concept can refer to both the individual and collective communities with a common cultural heritage. The case of Morocco is particularly interesting because it is a various and heterogeneous country with very ancient traditions, but...
Jasper Bastian: A Road Not Taken
The border between Belarus and Lithuania, two countries previously part of the Soviet Union, was once little more than an insignificant, thin line on a map. The people of this area interacted freely with one another. The bonds of their communal life were strong despite their national diversity. Families often...
Mafalda Rakos: I Want to Disappear – Approaching Eating Disorders
Anorexia, Bulimia and related Phenomena are increasingly widespread. According to the ANAD, up to 70 million people of all ages and genders are currently worldwide suffering from an eating disorder. Anorexia is confirmed to have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness; this is 12 times higher than the...
Jennifer Georgescu: White Series
We have conditioned ourselves to believe that we are not animals that have to succumb to physicality. After all we are mind over matter. The physical body is regarded as a sign of weakness. It ages, gets sick, and grows tired. It is hard to accept that we are not...
Joydip Mitra: Losing Horizon – The Changpa Nomads of Trans-Himalayan India
Known as Changpas, or people who migrated from the Tibetan district of ‘Changthang, a very special community resides-- or rather moves around-- the dry mountains of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. Rearing goats is their only way of life and for these soft but hairy creatures these shepherds migrate from...
Marco Castelli: A Micro Odyssey
Most of the photographs of microbes and bacteria have a scientific nature, adapted to detect and to emphasize the unique geometries that these are able to form. This time, however, the interest is not to show what is hardly visible to the naked eye, but to use the natural shapes...
Orestis Seferoglou: Uniformity
Uniformity: the quality or state of being uniform. The desert as an open space has multiple roles and states. The basic characteristic is uniformity. From every point of view the desert has almost the same image. The desert is transformed into a modern city on an exponential growth. The desert...