The representations of the oldest masks are masks of animals, like those found in the paintings in the Lascaux cave in France. Some of these masks are still visible in contemporary rites around the world. The correlation between the masks worn during these rituals and the anthropomorphic figurations of the...
Ksenia Kuleshova: Ordinary People
The ban on "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors" was signed into the Russian federal law by Vladimir Putin in June 2013. This law, also known as the “anti-gay law”, is just one more example of a tendency to regression to a more intolerant society. In June 2020 a...
Kevin Williamson: New Life
Says Kevin: Throughout my childhood, my family and I would visit the mountains of Upstate New York. After some time of hiking, fishing, and relaxing by clear waters, we would head back to the familiarities of suburban life. On long car rides home, I would be filled with excitement and...
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...
Liliana Merizalde: Inner Disruptions
Inner Disruptions is a project with indigenous women from different communities and ethnic groups of the department of Vaupés, in colombian amazon. After a close encounter with each one of them I used their life’s stories in order to put together in each case a different prosthesis which extends, limits,...
Svetlin Yosifov: Mursi People
Mursi People is a series of photos that were taken during my visit to Ethiopia and are part of the album "Ethiopian Tribes Expedition" 2018. The Mursi tribe are an African tribe from the isolated Omo valley in Southern Ethiopia near the border with Sudan. Life for the Mursi is...
Roman Sokolov: Soul Survivors
Says Roman: Depression is one of the most common mental disorders and more than 300 million people worldwide suffer from it. Depression can lead to disability, in the worst case to suicide. The heroes of my series overcame depression of varying degrees of difficulty. These are people sensitive to the...
Alain Schroeder: Grandma Divers
South Korea, Jeju island, known for its characteristic basalt volcanic rock, sits off South Korea. It is the home of the renowned Haenyeo or women of the sea who free dive off the black shores of Jeju harvesting delicacies from the sea. Wearing thin rubber suits and old fashioned goggles,...
Marcela Barrios Hernandez: Bazuko
Says Marcela: Bazuko is a classic portraits series that aims to document the world of drug addicts in Medellin-Colombia. The word "bazuko" comes from English word "bazooka" and this drug is similar to crack and is extremely toxic. Most of this persons are pushed in their quotidian to steal, prostitute...
Susana Girón: 90 Varas
The Alarcon family is one of the last families who still work as nomadic shepherds in Spain and Europe. In the heart of Europe, the phenomenon of transhumance has survived for centuries: families of shepherds that migrate through the territory by foot with their animals in search of better pastures,...