In Havana time is an unavoidable character . Destructive or facetious, sardonic or nostalgic, political or imaginary, irreverent in any case, time sprawls its texture and shadow all over the city. Half a century of defiant isolation, embargo and excruciating austerity has done its work. In the vale of years,...
Katarzyna Nizinkiewicz: Simple World
About her series "Simple World" Katarzyna Nizinkiewicz says: In March 2016 I walked 500 km from Finland to North Cape on the skis. I was with friend, we slept in the tent and we pull our food and all what we needed on the sleds (me also 4kg of my photographic...
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...
Elena Anosova: Saagan Sag
Olkhon is the only inhabited island of the lake Baikal and a tourist resort center of the Siberia during summer-time. The island is a sacral place for several religions, shamanism and buddhism, and it used to be territory of neolithic people sites. For several winter months (2010-2015) I record everyday...
Alain Schroeder: Kushti
Kushti is a traditional form of Indian wrestling. Practiced in an Akhara, the wrestlers, under the supervision of a guru, dedicate their bodies and minds to Kushti on average for 6 to 36 months. Wearing only a well-adjusted loincloth (langot), wrestlers or Pelwhans enter a pit made of clay, often...
Elena Anosova: OUT-OF-THE-WAY
OUT-OF-THE-WAY project was created on the far away territories of the Extreme North of Russia, where bad accessibility and isolation, special relationship with nature and following the century-long ways of life involve unique mythology of the region where the fictional things are very often more important than modern reality. These...
Aleksey Kondratyev: Ice Fishers
Kazakh fishers have, for untold generations, set out onto the frozen Ishim River in hopes of catching fish—whether for fare or profit—beneath the ice. Historically nomadic, Kazakhstan began a process of sedentarization as a result of Russian colonialism in the 19th century. But despite advances in technology, many of these...
Ralph Graef: Route 66 – The Mother Road
The Route 66, also called Will Rogers Highway, is maybe the most famous original highway of the USA. It was established in 1926 and it ran from Santa Monica CA to Chicago IL. As times passed it was bypassed by the Interstate road system and it was officially removed from...
Bence Bakonyi: Segue
The photographic works of Bence Bakonyi represent the symbols of freedom, airiness and transubstantiation. Below their contemporary and young aesthetics, they provide us with deeper layers of interpretations. Body and mind – these qualities are entirely intertwined in the unique pictoriality he creates: a human blends into the landscape, the...
Adam Kozioł: Konyak Tribe
Adam Koziol is young Polish travel and documentary prohotgrapher based Poznan. Adam travels the world, taking pictures of members of disappearing cultures and tribes. Take a look at stunning portraits of the Konyak tribe from Nagaland, India. The Konyak are a Naga people, and are recognised among other Naga by their...