An exploration of my personal Istanbul underworld in 2012. Alone again in the city of chaos. I only find sense through the camera, to investigate the dream and the nightmare: desire, intimacy, love, abandonment. And I find reflections of my past, my family home, the corridors. My grandmother as a...
Antonio Aragon Renuncio: Sorcière. The Witches. The Soul Eaters
Les Sorcières. The witches. The soul eaters. At Burkina Faso. In the middle of the deep savannah. Far from everything. Close to nowhere. Even today in the Mossi tribal culture many women are accused of being “witches” by their neighbors, simply because they assume that they are responsible for any...
Maurice Ressel: Faces of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is ranking first on the list of the world’s most lethal contagious diseases. It is being transmitted through droplet infection from one person to another. Especially people with an already weak immune system are vulnerable to infection. Most frequently, the disease afflicts the respiratory passages. But also bones, lymph...
Duy Phuong: Volatile States
All around us, our landscape is changing. As globalization casts its spores across Vietnam, the cities face the threat of losing their individuality in the process. Destruction shadows the course of construction, upheavals accompany installations, and buildings blossom overnight. The incessant replenishing of our environment results in the formation of...
Jalal Shamsazaran: The Story of People Who Will no Longer Have a Lake
Urmia Lake, located in the northwestern Iran was the second largest salt lake in the world and the largest in the Middle East. The lake was protected as a national park by Iranian Department of Environment and it was one of the most famous international wetlands registered in The Ramsar...
Tien Tran: Bedouins – The Forgotten Victims of the Syrian Crisis
There is no end in sight to the war in Syria. Many Syrians have fled to Europe, where the number of asylum seekers soared during the month of October 2015. In Jordan, some refugees – including some of the most vulnerable – are living in makeshift tent villages rather than...
Alain Schroeder: Living for Death
In Toraja, the rituals associated with death are complex, require extensive planning and are expensive. Therefore, when a person dies, it can take weeks, months even years for the family to organize the funeral. During this time, the deceased is considered to be "sick" and kept at home. Relatives continue...
Julian Master: In the Red
Julian Master’s In The Red refreshes the overcooked label of “New York Street Photography” by asking us to break down all barriers of cynical pretension and simply ask what it generally means to exist in a city. It means, today, an unprecedented degree of chaos and diversity, in both appearance...
Giacomo Sini: The Forgotten People of Kurdistan
About his project The Forgotten People of Kurdistan says Giacomo Sini: I usually travel in Middle East and year by year by wandering around photographing the conflictual situation, I’ve started to share more strong stories with the Kurdish community. I’ve always had a great interest and passion on Kurds since I...
Denis Buchel: Behind the Stage
Tortured bodies, empty looks, people at the end of their power, expecting the end of the hardship they have chosen themselves – this is how the atmosphere behind the stage of the consecutive bodybuilding show could be described. This is not a story for the successful sportsmen, taking advantage over...