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,...
Sergey Melnitchenko: Behind the Scenes
About his series Sergey says: Transvestites, girls bathing in tubs of beer, drunk actors and even more drunk visitors. All of this – club, the club where I’m working. Passed one year as I came to Asia to work as a dancer. The last few months we perform in one...
Franco Sortini: A Neutral Place
In these Franco Sortini's photographs there is a photographic story, but it is a kind of crossover in which photography asks a series of questions about the identity of a place and about the emotional aspect of being in a place. So we find that the images of these cities...
Junya Suzuki: An Aesthetic of Everyday Life
Since ancient times, the Japanese have had a unique aesthetic sense referred to as "wabi-sabi". Generally, this style prefers the mundane over the showy, quietude over eloquence, and stillness over movement. However, almost no opportunity to hear about the style exists in modern times. As time goes by, and as...
Frédérick Carnet: The Last First Day
A photographic essay by Frédérick Carnet: First of January 2106. Rügen. An island in northern Germany plunged into a strange atmosphere, post-apocalyptic, that reminds me of the movie The Road (2009, John Hillcoat). And if that day was the last first day of a fragile peace? This photographic essay, like...
Eva Gjaltema: Sehnzucht & Sehnzucht: The Remix
Eva Gjaltema gives a glimpse into her most recent work: ’Sehnzucht’ and ‘Sehnzucht: The Remix’, where the series are based on the artist’s personal experience of becoming a mother, the contradictory nature of the event and the conflicting emotions it creates. Her work describes the awe at the incredible ’once...
Sarah Blesener: Borodino
Portraits of adolescents attending the Historical War Camp in Borodino, Moscow Oblast, Russia - summer of 2016. 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...
Diane Vincent: I Join The Crystal-Eyed Turtle’s Hand
I Join The Crystal-Eyed Turtle's Hand is an invitation to open our imagination, following an age-old wise creature. It's offering to participate in reality through multiple layers, while listening to a polyphonic universe overflowed with colors. It can be seen as an experiment in being playful, light-hearted and magnanimous. Nature is...
Florian Amoser: Quantified Landscape
Quantified Landscape introduces an ongoing research project on the photographic transposition of space on a flat surface. Deep in the heart of underground galleries, I mapped out the relief by placing a motor-mounted laser on the ground. The light beam slowly sweeps the walls of the cave, thereby drawing a...
Caique Cunha: Williamsburg
“The streets are full of sweat in the mortar of your pavement”, according to the nineteenth century Brazilian writer, João do Rio, in his book, The Enchanting Soul of the Streets. “Williamsburg” is the final work after spending some months (2015) in the neighborhood streets of Brooklyn. New York City...