Miikka Pirinen: Fight League Kids

When you think of MMA fighters you are likely to envision beefy men who have a whole extra set of muscles on top of their shoulders, or perhaps what you’ve learnt about the sport from film and television. But as Miikka Pirinen captures in his fascinating series Fight League Kids...

Arturo Soto: When The Time Comes

I am interested in understanding what makes something worth looking at as a picture. This collection of images aims to transform appearances into imaginative prospects that distill a sense of beauty. They are notations in passing, to quote the great Nathan Lyons, factual and disperse like reality itself. The title...

Petros Koublis: In Landscapes

The area that surrounds Athens is composed by a certain antithesis, as the vast urban surface meets with the countryside. Surrounded by the silence of centenarian olive groves, meadows, mountains and seas, the city today struggles to carry the weight of its own existence, facing a rather tough and tense...

Sasha Maslov: Veterans

Veterans is a series of portraits of people who took part in the Second World War – the one event in human history that could not – and still cannot- be compared with any other event on the scale of catastrophe, human tragedy, and the degree of impact on the...

Fan Shi San: Great Wall

The photos of “Great Wall” were taken during my 4000 miles cycling journey along the Great Wall of China, from the wall’s west end to the east end. I followed the wall across the mainland of north China. The Great Wall passes through several provinces include Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi,...

Anjès Gesink: Birds Don’t Cry

Holland-based photographer Anjès Gesink work as a volunteer at a Rotterdam bird shelter (Vogelklas Karel Schot). Birds of all kinds of species end up here because of there debilitated condition, because they have flown into buildings or, for example, because they have become entangled in fishing lines. Much avian suffering...

George Steinmetz: Panama Canal

To accommodate larger vessels and increased maritime traffic, Panama has been building a new pair of locks on both sides of the canal. The $5.25 billion expansion project will double the canal’s capacity and open in early 2016. While the gates are all in place on the Caribbean side, there...

Fabrice Fouillet: World’s Tallest Statues

The photographer Fabrice Fouillet was looking to produce work about symbolism and the cult of personality, but couldn’t find the right angle – until he came across a photo of Sendai Daikannon, one of the world’s tallest statues, standing at 328 ft. (100 meters). Fouillet located dozens across the world,...