The land of Baikal region in Russia has always been sacred for the local indigenous peoples – buryats. After 70 years of stagnation the religious faith of their ancestors began to revive. Shamans are necessary for talking with gods and ancestors. To become a shaman you need to have not...
Alexandra Serrano: Nesting in the Wolf Tree
“The Forest is a state of Mind.” Gaston Bachelard Nesting in the Wolf Tree is an ongoing photographic series that depicts the forest as a space of the unseen and the mysterious whose immensity engenders admiration, contemplation and fright. The territory I chose to portray is the forest of Fontainebleau,...
Julie de Waroquier: Brave New World
When framing a landscape or a wildlife picture, we avoid electric wires, modern buildings, trash or any unwanted human traces, which are considered as visual parasites. On the contrary, we are looking for a pure nature to depict in our pictures, which would not be transformed by our technology. However,...
Alban Lécuyer: The Grand Opening of Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is a unique example of our times of a capital that was almost entirely stripped of its population. Buildings were abandoned and traffic prohibited, as well as schools and public spaces being converted into farmland: from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime advocated domination over the “new...
Argus Paul Estabrook: School Memories – The Loss In Danwon High
Ten classrooms at Danwon High School were spontaneously transformed into memorial sites during the Sewol Ferry Tragedy on April 16, 2014, when the lives of 250 students and 12 teachers (nearly its entire second year class) were lost off the coast of Donggeochado, South Korea. Overnight these classrooms were covered...
Alexandra Zhidkikh: In My Room
This is a simple photo set about the beauty in everyday life, the naturality, and self-acceptance - nude women in their own rooms, without embellishments, touch-up, makeup, or studio light. The sources of inspiration surround us - a ray of light that falls from the window on your friend's shoulder...
Randy Wachtin: Cascadia By Nature
There exists an innate human instinct to care about and communicate with nature. Experts in the fields of Natural Science & Psychotherapy have been touting positive effects of nature on the human body and mind. A Japanese study describes a link between walking in forests and the reduction of chronic...
Leticia Bernaus: Zoobiografia
André Bazin said, “If the plastic arts were put under psychoanalysis, the practice of embalming the dead might turn out to be a fundamental factor in their creation.” He was talking about the idea of the preservation of the body as the constitution of a work of art about oneself:...
Poike Stomps: Crossing Europe
Living round the corner from Muntplein in Amsterdam meant I used to pass it several times a day. And it would often cheer me up just to see the life going on in those few square metres. I like watching crowds. I started studying people crossing at the intersection, observing...
Pierpaolo Mittica: Chernobyl 30 Years After
On April 26, 1986 at 1:24 a.m. a disastrous event occurred, the worst technological catastrophe of the modern age, which blighted the lives of millions of people. That night reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded. The explosion unleashed tons of radioactive dust into the air, where,...