National self-identification is a thorny issue today in Russia. Millions of people talk about the sense of belonging to their own country trying to get united into "imagined communities". These communities may have three different mythological images of modern Russia. The first one is the image of the Soviet Union....
Christos Palios: Conversations
Food serves central components of our lives: it provides social and nutritional sustenance and communicates status in entertainment. A shared meal can designate cultural implications, offer windows into tradition, and speaks to identities and stereotypes. Today's personal electronic devices have modified the communal experience altogether. Their portability has enabled the...
Michal Siarek: Alexander
The very first thing that I saw in Skopje was the construction of a 25-meter tall figure of a warrior on horseback which, from what I later found out, was the statue of Alexander the Great. In 2010 the government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia started an extensive project...
Pavel Volkov: Deportation
Nowadays illegal migration from the local issue of a particular country has become a worlwide global problem. Military conflicts, wars, ethnic clashes, epidemics, disease, hunger and poverty are driving people from their homes and force them to go searching for a better life in other countries. Russia faced the issue...
Marta Zgierska: Post
Post is a project about trauma, frozen in dead greyness, silence and tension. Everyone can find their own punctures here – exhausting dreams, fears, obsessions. An individual way of discovering a twin traumatic memory in another person, “Post” is an attempt at intimate contact which closes the past non-experience in the present. Says...
Kai Caemmerer: Unborn Cities
Unborn Cities is a body of work that explores the architectural structures and physical growth of new cities located in inner-mainland China. Unlike many Western cities that begin as small developments and grow in accordance to the local industries, gathering community and history as they age, many of the new...
Matt Hamon: The Gleaners
This current series of photographs focuses on a small group of primitive skills practitioners who attend the annual buffalo hunt on the perimeter of Yellowstone National Park in Montana to scavenge animal parts and other animal products left behind by Native American hunters. After offering assistance to hunters by field...
Elena Anosova: OUT-OF-THE-WAY
OUT-OF-THE-WAY project was created on the far away territories of the Extreme North of Russia, where bad accessibility and isolation, special relationship with nature and following the century-long ways of life involve unique mythology of the region where the fictional things are very often more important than modern reality. These...
Aleksey Kondratyev: Ice Fishers
Kazakh fishers have, for untold generations, set out onto the frozen Ishim River in hopes of catching fish—whether for fare or profit—beneath the ice. Historically nomadic, Kazakhstan began a process of sedentarization as a result of Russian colonialism in the 19th century. But despite advances in technology, many of these...
Patryk Karbowski: Halfway
A middle-sized city in the center of Poland, halfway between the mountains and the Baltic Sea. Neither rich, nor really poor, with a typical history of a region’s industrial capital which blossomed in the time of state socialism and lost that position after 1989. Such places evolve in a very special way. With...