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  • Chrysalis – Georgiana Feidi

    Chrysalis – Georgiana Feidi

    This series invites reflection on the delicate cycles of renewal that govern both nature and ourselves. Artist : Georgiana Feidi…

  • First Frames – Ilie Mitaru

    First Frames – Ilie Mitaru

    A refugee-run mobile photo project brings tools of self-expression to Turkey’s most vulnerable children grappling with displacement and access to…

  • Anima Mundi – Máté Bartha

    Anima Mundi – Máté Bartha

    Anima Mundi is an obscure encyclopedia in which an archetypal metropolis that has evolved into an autonomous organism mirrors the…

  • Turbulences – Sidonie Ronfard 

    Turbulences – Sidonie Ronfard 

    Turbulence reflects a tremor, a disturbance in our inner tranquility.  Artist : Sidonie Ronfard Series : Turbulences Website / Instagram…

  • A Vernacular Modernity – Price Harrison

    A Vernacular Modernity – Price Harrison

    Price Harrison’s photographs reveal an eye for shape and for form. More surprising, perhaps, for this architect of pristine white…

  • The Swan’s Journey – Hui Choi

    The Swan’s Journey – Hui Choi

    My work is centered around the primal forces and sensory experiences deep within human nature, exploring the eternal tension between…

  • RECOLLECTING IN TRANQUILITY – Giulia Frump

    RECOLLECTING IN TRANQUILITY – Giulia Frump

    “Recollecting in tranquility reminds of the moments of detachment from social life in order to find ourselves and find a new…

  • ALTERED – Roos Peltenburg

    ALTERED – Roos Peltenburg

    ” By hiding the faces and not revealing a clear identity, the focus shifts to the shapes of the human…

  • TRUTH OR FALSE – Gorsad

    TRUTH OR FALSE – Gorsad

    ” The Truth or False series is about exploring the fluid nature of gender and encouraging a deeper reflection on…

  • TOUCH ME – Alina Cherubin

    TOUCH ME – Alina Cherubin

    “In touch me, Alina Cherubin turns her lens on people’s homes, and captures the expression of femininity in its multifaceted forms…

  • BILE – Giorgia De Bortoli

    BILE – Giorgia De Bortoli

    “Bile depicts an emotional curve between escaping reality and attempting to reconnect with it.”  Artist: Giorgia De Bortoli Project: Bile  Instagram …

  • BRIDGING THE PHYSICAL AND THE SPIRITUAL – Morrison Gong

    BRIDGING THE PHYSICAL AND THE SPIRITUAL – Morrison Gong

    “I have a love-hate relationship with non-conformity. I’m naturally drawn to it because, growing up, I wasn’t allowed to express…

  • THERE ROUND THE CORNER IN THE DEEP – Katya Selezneva

    THERE ROUND THE CORNER IN THE DEEP – Katya Selezneva

    “Drawing from archival photographs, facts, and personal memories, the project investigates the roots of uncertainty and the landscapes of collective…

  • ATTRACTION MADE VISIBLE – Julia Ishac

    ATTRACTION MADE VISIBLE – Julia Ishac

    “The concept of visualizing positive thinking and becoming your own magnet for attracting what you want in life felt powerful.” …

  • WET – Polly Brown

    WET – Polly Brown

    “Sitting somewhere between ambiguity and innuendo WET looks for the sexy in the subtly strange.”  Artist: Polly Brown Project: Wet  Produced by…

  • CONSTELLATIONS – Claire Legrand Loyola

    CONSTELLATIONS – Claire Legrand Loyola

    “What were these albums hiding from me? What do they reveal about my relationship with family?”  Artist: Claire Legrand Loyola Project:…

  • FROM ONE INNOCENT LOOK – Lydia Toivanen

    FROM ONE INNOCENT LOOK – Lydia Toivanen

    “My nuclear family consists of fourteen people, parents and twelve children. Our extended family has a total of 182 one-on-one…

  • REMAINS – Josefien Tondeleir

    REMAINS – Josefien Tondeleir

    “Society has a way of separating generations from each other.” Artist: Josefien TondeleirProject: Remains Instagram / Website   “The series Remains was created…

  • DOOR PRIZE – Benoit Paillé

    DOOR PRIZE – Benoit Paillé

    “By documenting the injured feet of participants, the project highlights how the body becomes an instrument of power, where visible…

  • “HAUSE” SPIELE – Natali Agrzykova

    “HAUSE” SPIELE – Natali Agrzykova

    “The aim of this project is to express through photography the adaptation to new conditions and to a foreign home.”…

  • INVISIBLE THREADS – Ekaterina Pavlova

    INVISIBLE THREADS – Ekaterina Pavlova

    “I always felt that there was more to my life than just my story. It’s as if invisible threads connect…

  • A PERFECT SENTENCE – Oliver Frank Chanarin

    A PERFECT SENTENCE – Oliver Frank Chanarin

    © Oliver Frank Chanarin 2023 courtesy Loose Joints “In a country fragmented by political polarisation, pandemic isolation and the weaponisation…

  • WHY NOT – Otto Snoek

    WHY NOT – Otto Snoek

    ” The commercialization of leisure often exposes humanity at its least flattering moments. Public spaces set the stage for tableaus…

  • BIG SKY – Adam Ferguson

    BIG SKY – Adam Ferguson

    Swollen Warrego River, Kunja Country, Cunnamulla, Queensland, 2022 © Adam Ferguson “The country’s occupation and colonial legacy has meant a…

  • A TEAR FOR SOMEONE UNDESERVING – Sunniva Hestenes

    A TEAR FOR SOMEONE UNDESERVING – Sunniva Hestenes

    “An emotional terrain shaped by grief, complexity, and family tensions is visualised in a story marked by loss, substance abuse,…

  • REN HANG – AT WORK – Peter Coeln

    REN HANG – AT WORK – Peter Coeln

    © Peter Coeln  Peter Coeln: “Ren Hang, like his photographs, was unique – tall in stature and endowed with a…

  • KHORA – Begüm Yamanlar

    KHORA – Begüm Yamanlar

    “Yamanlar tries to follow the ancient natural force for creation, demolition and regeneration, with the very manner a landscape painter…

  • JULIAN & JONATHAN – Sarah Mei Herman

    JULIAN & JONATHAN – Sarah Mei Herman

    “Jonathan is 21-years younger than me, and my childhood memories of my relationship with my father have since found echoes…

  • KHARTOUM – A TALE OF THREE CITIES – André Lützen

    KHARTOUM – A TALE OF THREE CITIES – André Lützen

    “These are still pictures of the peace that no longer exists. The humanitarian situation in Khartoum is now catastrophic.”  Artist:…

  • READY – Vincent Wechselberger

    READY – Vincent Wechselberger

    “READY is an honest portrait of contemporary queer sex work emerging out of my own relationship to it.” Artist: Vincent…

  • MUZO – Juan Manuel Garcia

    MUZO – Juan Manuel Garcia

    “The MUZO emerald mines in Colombia are for some the only opportunity to change their life in a second, through…

  • DANCING OFF BEAT –  Emily Dodd-Noble

    DANCING OFF BEAT – Emily Dodd-Noble

    “This photographic work acts as a visual insight into safer spaces within Berlin’s queer underground communities where ‘otherness’ is celebrated.”…

  • THE SABOTEUR – Giorgia Bellotti

    THE SABOTEUR – Giorgia Bellotti

    “Reality cannot be grasped or fully understood, nor can the meaning of existence be settled.” Artist: Giorgia BellottiProject: The Saboteur…

  • A LIGHT LEADS TO ANOTHER – Atsushi Momoi

    A LIGHT LEADS TO ANOTHER – Atsushi Momoi

    “I have tried to trace memory as universal experience : how our consciousness are reconstructed by the past images. My aim of…

  • LAYERS – Freya Gerz and Naomi Lurel

    LAYERS – Freya Gerz and Naomi Lurel

    “Layers explores the intricate relationship between identity, memory, and perception through a poetic-photographic lens.” Artist: Freya Gerz and Naomi LurelProject: Layers…

  • BENEATH THE PAVEMENT THE BEACH – Aristidis Schnelzer

    BENEATH THE PAVEMENT THE BEACH – Aristidis Schnelzer

    “Ikaria is a remote Greek island with around 8,500 inhabitants. Due to the longevity of its inhabitants, it has been…

  • MY EYES SEE IN THE DARK – Natalie Stanczak

    MY EYES SEE IN THE DARK – Natalie Stanczak

    “My eyes see in the dark.I think I’m trying to understand or learn. Un-learn.I think it has something to do…

  • PROJECT PARADISE – Anne Gabriel-Jürgens

    PROJECT PARADISE – Anne Gabriel-Jürgens

    “…Or how do you want to live? About communes, life plans, ideologies, utopians and visionaries.” Artist: Anne Gabriel-JürgensProject: Project Paradise Instagram / Website…

  • AFTER – Martin Kollar

    AFTER – Martin Kollar

    “31th August, 2019 … from that moment the way I look at the world changed. Everything has changed.” Artist: Martin KollarProject:…

  • RED JOURNEY – Nick Hannes

    RED JOURNEY – Nick Hannes

    “Communism and its fall had a worldwide impact, but none felt the changes more than the previously Soviet states.” Artist:…

  • SARTAROSHXONA – Zumrad Mirzalieva

    SARTAROSHXONA – Zumrad Mirzalieva

    “Historically there has been a sharp gendered division in the access to public spaces in Uzbekistan.” Artist: Zumrad MirzalievaProject: Sartaroshxona Instagram / Website …

  • LIKE A KNIFE IN THE SUN – Chiara Benzi

    LIKE A KNIFE IN THE SUN – Chiara Benzi

    “Like a Knife in the Sun is a radical experimentation that focuses on the point of contact between Eros and…

  • YVY-MARA EY – Mauricio Holc

    YVY-MARA EY – Mauricio Holc

    ” When the Spanish colonizers—500 years ago—came into contact with the native Guaraní inhabitants of South America, they inferred that…

  • SANS TITRE – Hawa Laetitia

    SANS TITRE – Hawa Laetitia

    “For several years now, I’ve been writing about the paradoxical and ambivalent feelings I experience. This practice helped to put…

  • SURROUNDED BY NATURAL CAUSES – Casey Joiner

    SURROUNDED BY NATURAL CAUSES – Casey Joiner

    “This project began long before I was aware of it. Going about everyday life while navigating the complexities of long…

  • NOW IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME – Peter Pflügler

    NOW IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME – Peter Pflügler

    “This project started out as an investigation into the traces of a well-kept family secret. While I was revisiting my…

  • CORPUS – Daria Lazo

    CORPUS – Daria Lazo

    “Rooted in my own struggles with body dysmorphic disorder, the project explores the nuanced connection between body and mind, aiming…

  • KOROWAI – Pie Aerts

    KOROWAI – Pie Aerts

    “This is a tribute to him, to the Korowai, a tribute to a world before now.” Artist: Pie AertsProject: Korowai…

  • WANDER LINES – Teva Cosic

    WANDER LINES – Teva Cosic

    “Here, in the town my mother grew up and my grandmother grows old, the everyday is transmogrified through the strange…

  • Y È PI DE TEN QUE DE VIA – Greta Valente

    Y È PI DE TEN QUE DE VIA – Greta Valente

    “Y è pi de ten que de via (there is more time than life, from the Aosta Valley’s dialect) is…

  • CLOSE TO THE GROUND, FAR FROM HEAVEN – Michal Adamski

    CLOSE TO THE GROUND, FAR FROM HEAVEN – Michal Adamski

    “There are places in which most of us are usually not interested. If you want to get there you need…

  • WARAWAR WAWA – River Claure

    WARAWAR WAWA – River Claure

    “The Warawar Wawa project, Son of the Stars in the Aymara language, proposes an alternative Bolivian identity that, without denying…

  • TYLER MITCHELL & STUDIO REX – C/O Berlin

    TYLER MITCHELL & STUDIO REX – C/O Berlin

    C/O Berlin presents the exhibition Tyler Mitchell – Wish This Was Real and Studio Rex – Jean-Marie Donat Collection from Jun 1 to Sep…

  • YOU DON’T NEED SOIL TO GROW – Benedetta Ristori

    YOU DON’T NEED SOIL TO GROW – Benedetta Ristori

    “You Don’t Need Soil To Grow explores the dynamics of nomadism and rootedness in modernity.” Artist: Benedetta RistoriProject: You Don’t…

  • MADRE – Marisol Mendez

    MADRE – Marisol Mendez

    “Madre interrogates the whitewashed, phallocentric, and colonial representation of womxn in my native Bolivia.” Artist: Marisol MendezProject: Madre Instagram / Website   “The project…

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