After Zone1, Anti-Humans and Afro-Fem, Pol Kurucz is launching his fourth supercharged series, Poor Billionaires, inspired by the deep social void in Brazil. The only glimpse rich and poor Brazilians have of each other’s lives is through the distorted prism of soap operas and social media. A miner will never...
Bram Tackenberg: Living Room Portraits
About his project Bram says: "In 2015 I've started making this series, which is still in progress. I've been cruising the Netherlands visiting Dutch households in diverse compositions, photographing them in their own living rooms. Due to the solemn approach and seeming lack of emotion, the portraits tend to transcend...
Marta Kochanek: Lov’yer
The history of humanity has recorded hundreds and thousands of romances and mésalliances of all kinds. The world witnesses love between people of all nationalities and races. This planet gives room to those attracted to people of the same, opposite and both genders. It is how this world is constructed....
Tatiana Vinogradova: Days of Melancholy
This series of portraits is focused on the life of gay people in Russia. It is a visual tale of melancholy, loneliness and uncertainty about the future. In Russia the level of intolerance toward homosexuality has been rising sharply. A 2013 survey found that 74% of Russians said homosexuality should...
Sophie Mayanne: Scars
Our skin is the road map to our lives, from the intricate lines around our eyes to the age spots of the elderly, to the faded scars often long forgotten, gained from the rough and tumble in the school playground. Each scar tells it's own story - a badge of...
Smith & Köppen: Planet Wasteland
Wasteland is Europe’s most notorious adult playground where the fetish lifestyle is celebrated and applauded. Photographers duo Smith & Koppen had the privilege to be invited backstage to document the visual transformation of the artists and performers into otherworldly characters. The series of photographs plunge us into a dystopian world...
Leticia Bernaus: Zoobiografia
André Bazin said, “If the plastic arts were put under psychoanalysis, the practice of embalming the dead might turn out to be a fundamental factor in their creation.” He was talking about the idea of the preservation of the body as the constitution of a work of art about oneself:...
Sarah Blesener: Borodino
Portraits of adolescents attending the Historical War Camp in Borodino, Moscow Oblast, Russia - summer of 2016. Over 200,000 youth are currently enrolled in clubs with 10,000 in Moscow. Each club functions independently with their own structures and philosophies. In 2015, a proposed program from the Russian government entitled the...
Ryan James Caruthers: Tryouts
Self portrait project exploring the connections between masculinity, homosexuality, and athleticism. Tryouts echoes the shrill call of boyhood in its most parting form. Subtleties of male beauty lay dormant and an explorative claim for virility presents itself anew. Found often with a bloody nose, brutality is questioned. His gaze aids...
Goran Bertok: Survivors
One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic. - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Wars, states of emergency and continuing repression are immense breeding places for the pogroms against the people sacrificed in order to achieve political or economic goals. Terror that serves the ideology is a phenomenon imprinted in...