Anne-Sophie Guillet pays special attention to the randomicity of daily commutes, to androgynous looking people of an indistinct gender. Far from fixed appearances, everything in her work is fluid, impermanent, and transitory. For many years now, the artist has shot around thirty-four portraits in medium format using natural light. Her...
Miguel Brusch: The Black Pool
Blackpool on England‘s northwest coast is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the UK. But despite an increasing number of tourists, the town‘s economic and social situation is precarious: Hundreds of hotels are in a state of decay, the unemployment and drug abuse rates are among the highest...
Steven Burton: Skin Deep – Looking Beyond the Tattoos
Skin Deep is a portrait series that seeks to understand the impacts tattoos have on former gang members and people trying to escape the gang life. How we as a society judge ex-gang members with tattoos and ultimately how they judge themselves. Portraits are taken off the participants and their...
Alexis Aubin: Face Shields
After more than half a century of armed conflict, landmines and other artisanal explosives continue to prevail in Colombia. The country ranks second in the world for the greatest victims of landmines, after Afghanistan. While the peace agreements have been signed by the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
Arwe Art: Rubber Identity
Our hair is deeply connected with our identity. For centuries, hair has had complicated connotations with our inner selves, politics, religion, and social liberation. So what happens to our notions of ‘self’ when hair is not a factor? ‘Rubber Identity’ is a series of portraits where the model’s hair is...
Mariam Amurvelashvili: Take Me Home
These portraits are of people and the dogs that they adopted from shelters and the streets of Georgia. The laws and regulations on the matter of animal rights are still developing in Georgia, therefore many animals are abused, abandoned, killed daily. Says Mariam: Every day I witnessed how young people...
Ruben Salgado Escudero: Solar Portraits
The International Energy Agency estimates that roughly 1.1 billion people in the world still live without access to electricity. In many communities throughout the world, most all rural labor is still unmechanized, candles - which are both expensive and dangerous – are the only source of light available once the...
Jillian Freyer: 42 Wayne
Says Jillian: These images work to explore the notion of experience as touch and emotional and physical endurance performed through female bodies. Witnessed events, staged performances and instinct serve as a way to seek new intimacies between me and my subjects. Texture and surface become an important role in their...
Sergey Nazarov: Against
A new surge of protest activity covered almost all regions of Russia in 2017. The number of participants in protest actions was different depending on the regions, but undoubtedly, these actions can be called the most numerous and large-scale protests since 2012. Tens of thousands of people came to the...
Alice Mann: Maximum Effect
Says Alice: Following the period of African Independence from colonial rule, there are numerous contemporary challenges facing African citizens, compelling many people to migrate towards the more prosperous regions outside of the continent. In Congolese society, there is great significance attached to being able to create a new life within...