In the American West, vast areas of remote, arid terrain were historically disregarded by early settlers and described as “the lands nobody wanted.” In the Upper Snake River Valley of Eastern Idaho, parts of these sagebrush desert expanses, now overseen by the Federal Bureau of Land Management, are regularly used...
Mikula Platz: Socialist Classicism – Dictatorial Architecture Behind the Iron Curtain
The Socialist classicism found its origin in the socialist realism, the only art movement which was approved in the Soviet Union since 1934, as well as in the constructivism and the Russian avant-garde, which represented a style-defining architectural direction in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Just...
Dorin Goian: Remnants
Remnants is a documentary photography project exploring the aftermath of demographic crisis of Republic of Moldova. This year, Republic of Moldova is marking 25 years of independence, 25 years since the collapse of Soviet Union and the country all these years is considered the poorest in Europe with no signs...
Ksenia Diodorova: In the Cold
After the civil war in Tajikistan (1992–1997) and the following economic collapse, the people of Tajikistan found themselves in a process of migration. Now, they can be found in large as well as small Russian cities. Migration is like a great stormy sea that swallows up more and more people....
Anne-Laure Autin: Blood Line
About her Blood Line project Anne-Laure says: Once your parents pass away, you realise you’re next in line. My father was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the tender age of 64. Blood Line investigates how his inescapable disease and death also affected my own life. I saw my father’s pain...
Smith & Köppen: Planet Wasteland
Wasteland is Europe’s most notorious adult playground where the fetish lifestyle is celebrated and applauded. Photographers duo Smith & Koppen had the privilege to be invited backstage to document the visual transformation of the artists and performers into otherworldly characters. The series of photographs plunge us into a dystopian world...
Thibaut Derien: I Live in a Ghost City
Thibaut Derien began to travel France a decade ago, deliberately avoiding major roads and outputs bordered by kilometers of garish signs, bland prefabricated buildings, uniform housing estates and head-spining roundabouts, that years of careless urban policies have emerged as the new aesthetic standards of suburban areas. He was looking for...
Antonio Aragon Renuncio: Sanna’m
And there it was, amid the absence as a savanna. Hidden among rough rocks, among weeds and trees scattered starving the hot plains. Under a blazing sun hammering the senses. No rest, no mercy. A million light years from known safety and comfort. In Africa, always in Africa. Always in...
Margeaux Walter: Sign Language
Sign Language is a series of photographs that collapse everyday life into a form of abstraction. The images are about the fragility of identity in relation to consumer culture. Each image is a domestic scene that is then deconstructed into varying levels of chaos and order, obscuring the identities of...
Max Sher: Russian Palimpsest
Russian Palimpsest is a photographic exploration of the contemporary post-Soviet inhabited landscape in Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine (approximately 70 urban and suburban locations overall). I am shifting the optics from the Soviet sublime and Western exoticism to the everyday of our cities transitioning from a Communist Utopia to...