A park as an open grassy green area, designed for enjoying your leisure time, appeared on the wave of Romanticism in the XVIII century. Opened to public city parks appeared in Europe only at the beginning of the XIX century. Parks were promoting the cult of nature, harmony, quietness, seclusion....
Alena Zhandarova: Puree with a taste of Triangles
I like to try something what I didn't do before, to expand the perception of the world. I fascinate by the opportunity to try myself as a fabler with my own heroes, the chance to transform my inner feeling of the world to visual form, from chaos to cosmos. It...
Alain Schroeder: Living for Death
In Toraja, the rituals associated with death are complex, require extensive planning and are expensive. Therefore, when a person dies, it can take weeks, months even years for the family to organize the funeral. During this time, the deceased is considered to be "sick" and kept at home. Relatives continue...
Federico Floriani and Francesco La Porta: Cruo
Cruo is a series of still lifes on classic venetian food. Cruo means Raw in venetian dialect and that’s how we have treated the still life: leaving the food raw, natural, aggressive. The postproduction has been used in and ultra-real manner to create a dialectic dialogue between the classic aesthetics...
Elena Anosova: Saagan Sag
Olkhon is the only inhabited island of the lake Baikal and a tourist resort center of the Siberia during summer-time. The island is a sacral place for several religions, shamanism and buddhism, and it used to be territory of neolithic people sites. For several winter months (2010-2015) I record everyday...
Benoit Fournier: Resurgence
Resurgence is a work about the leaf as a trigger of memory. The people of Babilônia favela appear through the portraits made with chlorophyll from real leaves. Individuality is the core of the work: the leaf is unique and ephemeral, just like the people who appear through the chlorophyll. The...
Jennifer Garza-Cuen: Eden
'Eden' is part of a larger project entitled 'Wandering In Place’, which depicts a series of locations in the United States as a residue of my cultural memory, an inheritance. It is a metaphorical memoir, a narrative re-telling of facts and fictions and it is also my discovery of the...
Giovanni Presutti: Dependency
The world outlining in front of us requires to be explored by means of different artistic languages, in order to catch in depth the farthest frontier of reality. Italian photography of the last twenty years is renewing the approach on a reality in rapid growth, able to move away from...
Marta Giaccone: Systems of Harmony
In the 19th century a large number of Europeans and Americans went to great lengths to establish small utopian communities throughout America. They were preachers, social reformers, industrialists, philosophers, anarchists, journalists and socialist thinkers who attracted large crowds to their intentional colonies. Nevertheless they were exclusive establishments, some religious in...
Arnaud Teicher: Alpine Passes
Alpine passes are key places in the understanding of mountainous territory, they pass between two valleys and maintain the surprise about the landscapes that we hide. Since 2012, I bring attention to altitude alpine passes. My approach identifies a topographic work through the photographic medium. Alpine passes help me to...