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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

“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

“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

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

“I make my mother’s body and my own body disappear in order to build myself a new one.” Artist: Eli…
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

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

“Based on the context in which I grew up, I am unconsciously obsessed with having the legitimacy of veiling and…
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…
FILL LINE – Katya Yanova

“I was born in the year when my country ceased to exist and became another country.” Artist: Katya YanovaProject: Fill…
REMAINS – Josefien Tondeleir

“Society has a way of separating generations from each other.” Artist: Josefien TondeleirProject: Remains Instagram / Website “The series Remains was created…
BENEATH THE BLACK SAND OF TIME, I RESIST – Auriane Kolodziej

” Does the mirror mourn the ghosts it holds, or does it remain indifferent to the countless faces that have…
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

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

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

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

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

“By changing my perspectives from rather being in the role of the observer, to acting through my own body, I…
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

“Yamanlar tries to follow the ancient natural force for creation, demolition and regeneration, with the very manner a landscape painter…
THE NAME WE HOLD – Luca Iovino

“Before leaving my old home, I took the time to look at my surroundings with fresh eyes. I began to…
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

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

“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

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

” Unable to overcome the physical barriers, I ended up crossing ‘the border’ by taking an alternative route. I decided…
THE SABOTEUR – Giorgia Bellotti

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

“The inconsistency of an entity and fantasy of a myth.” Artist: Chochana Rosso Project: The Suns Burns Instagram / Website “The Sun gives…
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 explores the intricate relationship between identity, memory, and perception through a poetic-photographic lens.” Artist: Freya Gerz and Naomi LurelProject: Layers…
PASSING TIME – Sage Sohier

“A lot of time has passed since these wanderings, and though much is still vivid in my mind, I wish…
OF FIRE, FAR SHINING – J.A. Young

” The culmination of meticulous research and intuitive experimentation, American multimedia artist and photographer J.A. Young’s first monograph, Of Fire,…
LAYERS – Konrad Dobrucki

“The “Layers” project consists of photos taken between March and July 2022 in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa, Odessa, Kiev and Brodzianka. It…
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…
NATURA – Daria Nazarova

“I could still feel that optimism vibrating through the decades: that our bodies are full of power, and furthermore that…
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

“…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

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

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

“Taking the stopped life of the photographer’s mother as a starting point, it raises questions about the stopped time and…
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

” 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

“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

“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

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

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

” The people in this city, the Berliners from East and West, were much more similar than imagined.” Artist: Marc…
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

“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 (there is more time than life, from the Aosta Valley’s dialect) is…
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…