In the arctic tundra of Russia, there is a boarding school for the Nenets, the nomadic northern indigenous people. The children study and live there to receive formal education from autumn to spring. From April to September, they are with their families and reindeers in the middle of the tundra,...
Anais Boileau: Plein Soleil
"Plein Soleil" is about a kind of community women taking the sun. These are women with golden skin exposing themselves under the omnipresent sun. They stay along the coast of the seaside towns marked by Latin, bright and colorful architecture. There is a temporality game beetween women and architectures because...
Julia Kaczorowska: WZORY
Says Julia: WZORY is about people, who like me and like 1-2% of the world’s population, has vitiligo, a condition by which the skin loses pigment in certain areas. WZORY, which in Polish means both 'designs' and 'role model', is my chronicle of and tribute to people with vitiligo, who...
Olga Ingurazova: Wolf Story
This is a series of interlaced stories that mirror the devastating war that struck a disputed region of the Caucasus and the aftermath of its geopolitical isolation. It is a story of a man and his homeland that were alienated from each other yet remaining within one mutual world of...
Owen Harvey: Ground Clearance
In the mid-to-late 1940’s a new subculture in America emerged and grew during the post war prosperity of the 1950’s. Young Latino youths had been known to place sandbags in their custom vehicles, so that the body of their car would ride close to the road; “slow and low” being...
Katerina Shmidtke: People of Taiga
About her project "People of Taiga" says Katerina: This is a project about life in the solitude of taiga - tenacious of life, hardworking, hand in hand people who live in villages far away along Pinega river, being almost cut off from the rest of the world. The development of...
Fulvio Bugani: Twilight
The ancient traditions and the call of the ancestors are the forces that drive some populations to stay connected to inhospitable places, which they perceive as part of their group identity. The seasonal return to these remote areas, is a return to tradition, a rediscover of their roots and a...
Anton Polyakov & Anna Galatonova: MAHALA
In the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse in the early '90s, the Soviet Republic of Moldova declared independence, but the region along the Dniester sought freedom of its own. Transnistria is an approximately 200-km-long sliver of territory along the left bank of the Dniester river running between Moldova and Ukraine....
Néha Hirve: Up All Night
About Up All Night project says Néha: Growing up in a quiet housing complex, I’d often spend nights looking upon the roads from the roof of our townhouse. The world was quiet there. Everyone was asleep except the night watchmen, sitting guard in their incandescent-lit cabins or on their sun-bleached...
Denise Felkin: Mum’s Not The Word
Childless or childfree? Women who do not have children. I am forty-eight and childfree. I have never wanted children. Occasionally I question myself if I made the right decision? Am I infertile? How would a child have changed my life? How would having a child have affected my career as...