Originally from Gdynia, Poland’s main port, our story is marked by migration. Like many polish families which spread around the world, ours split itself between France and Poland during times of communism. We, two cousins, grew up parallelly in each country without knowing that much each other, until we both...
Fernando Montiel Klint: Dystopia
Dystopia refers to an anti-utopia, where the promise of modernity to improve the quality of life of man happens to take the form, rather, of a Hypermodernity (Lipovetsky), full of contradictions. The present work seeks to project these issues into the near future. They are reflections about the transition to...
Michele Vittori: Telepath
At the beginning of the 60s the first civilian telecommunications space station in Italy was inaugurated in the Fucino plain, in Abruzzo, thanks to which the first satellite television transmissions of the most important international events were carried out, including space missions and in 1969 the live television broadcast of...
Kathleen Meier: Huis Clos
The series Huis Clos confronts us to a suggestive confinement. What happens in us when we are faced into a desperate situation ? What does we feel when we have no longer a connexion with the outside world? The disorientation and the contact loss with the outside put us into...
Filippo Valoti Alebardi: Land of Gold
Magadan Oblast is one of major gold mining regions in Russia. More known like Kolyma this region is situated in the Oriental Siberia. In 30-s this subarctic region was populated by prisoners of Gulag, that were building roads, towns and infrastructure for gold mining in a cold endless forest at...
Jennifer Loeber: VERHEXEN
“Unruly women are always witches, no matter what century we’re in.” -Roxanne Gay VERHEXEN is a visual examination of The Witch as transgressive female archetype, in both modern and historical periods. 300 years after the Salem Witch Trials, our fixation with Witches hasn't wavered, from "The Wizard of Oz" to...
Riel Sturchio: Chasing Light
Chasing Light is an ongoing (circa 2011) collaborative medium format color film photography project between twin siblings Bianca and riel Sturchio. Chasing Light embodies the belief that representation, visibility, autonomy, and truth-telling can promote personal empowerment, and open up access to spaces that foster meaningful dialogue and community. Bianca and...
Jim Kazanjian: Anomalies
Says Jim: My images are digitally generated composites built from public domain photographs found online. Through a palimpsest-like layering process of adding, subtracting, merging and blending the various elements from these source photos are stitched together to create a seamless whole. I am basically manipulating and assembling a disparate array...
Vladimir Seleznev: Oseyev
Oseyev is the abandoned city in Russian Federation. It was designed as an innovative housing cluster based on the concept of self-sufficiency. However, due to economic miscalculations, construction errors and poor infrastructure planning, it gradually lost its financial attractiveness, began to empty and ended up by becoming a kind of...
Janie Julien-Fort: Ephemerals Landscapes
The artist makes use of a technique called solargraphy—a photographic process requiring exposure times that often span several months. Attached to various landscape elements, at the mercy of the weather and attracting the curious, hundreds of small pinhole cameras scrutinize the outskirts of several construction sites. Serving as makeshift surveillance...