The story is old: iconic objects crumble into dust or, at best, provide a suitable background for selfies. One dramatic fall from grace has been particularly striking: the shift from tower—a dominant presence in the cityscape asserting supremacy of the modernist idea over man—to “gray concrete box”, from icon to...
Goran Bertok: Survivors
One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic. - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Wars, states of emergency and continuing repression are immense breeding places for the pogroms against the people sacrificed in order to achieve political or economic goals. Terror that serves the ideology is a phenomenon imprinted in...
Patrick Tourneboeuf: Monolith
The project named Monolith is part of my ongoing focus on the marks and stigmata of history as seen today and for their ultimate fate. After working on the Berlin Wall, looking at war memorials, the D-Day beaches and various historic structures, I started the work in 2004. It all...
Zeren Badar: Accident Series
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. - Jasper Johns I'm hugely influenced by dada and neo-dada. In this photography project, I explore a peculiar combination of photography, painting & collage. I create three dimensional collages with found objects, food and cheaply printed old paintings....
Adam Friedberg: Single Story
The last fifteen years or so have seen an enormous increase in the development and construction of new buildings in New York City, especially in downtown Manhattan’s East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, and Bowery neighborhoods. Previously, buildings greater than six stories were less common between the Financial District...
Thomas Hobbs: Maravilla del Mundo
Iquitos, Peru is a city of approximately half a million people located on the Amazon river. Its only accesses are by boat or plane. There are no highways connecting it with the rest of Peru, making the city a kind of island. Surrounded on three sides by water, the city...
Debmalya Ray Choudhuri: A Different World
This work is an extensive long-term research oriented work on the wastelands of major urban cities in a developing country like India with an ever increasing population catering to the growing needs of consumerism .The focus of this work is mainly centred around the lives of people living near these...
Zhou Han Shun: Frenetic City
About his Hong Kong project entitled "Frenetic City" Chinese photographer Zhou Han Shun says: Frenetic City is an exploration of this complicated and multi-layered world. This work focuses on how people from different walks of life come to live together in a particular place. The congregation of people creates a multi-layered society which...
Luca Tombolini: Landscapes
The dawn of mankind, a time with no rationality. An ancestor contemplating the cosmos perceives the necessity of a divinity. The Second Cosmogony takes place along with the miracle of self-thinking consciousness. In that moment he knows he exists for a reason; he's got the significative element and this had...
Anna Filipova: Arcitc Coal
Svalbard is a cold, dark and isolated island in the Arctic Ocean, situated about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. Norway and Russia are the only two nations with settlements there. Large-scale coal mining that established communities in Svalbard during the 1920s remains the main industry to this...