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FORAYS, FRONTIERS & FLAGS – Joseph Cochran II

“From the United States to China, Africa to Europe, and more, Cochran’s work allows the viewer to place themselves in…
YES TO ALL book review – Mattia Micheli & Nicolò Panzeri

“Micheli and Panzeri meticulously analyze the deceptive charm of the evolving visual identity of the Alps, a landscape hanging in…
METAMORPHOSIS – Elizabeth Heyert

“Working with a trained hypnotherapist, Heyert takes us on a fascinating journey into the transcendent worlds of her subjects who…
NON FICTION – Henri Kisielewski

“In the current context, where the boundary between what is real and what isn’t is increasingly ambiguous (e.g. fake…
in conversation with LIGIA POPLAWSKA

“Losing one’s sight or hearing is one of the greatest human fears, but is also describes something unimaginable and uncontrollable,…
THE MEASURE – Monty Kaplan

“The Measure is a project that adapts Robert Creeley’s poem of the same name into a science fiction tale about…
THE ATTACHMENT THEORY – Jacopo Papucci

“The Attachment Theory seeks to unravel the multifaceted connections between, childhood traumas, alienation, mental health struggles, and isolation in adult…
SHE IS WARM – Iringó Demeter

“Shot monochromatically, the body is used as a tool to reflect on themes ranging from beauty, discovery, intimacy, connection (physical…
DREAM ABOUT NOTHING – Bobby Doherty

© Bobby Doherty 2023 courtesy Loose Joints “In front of you, a flower, a drinks can, a courgette, next an…
DIALECT – Felipe Romero Beltrán

© Felipe Romero Beltrán 2023 courtesy Loose Joints “The poetics of documentary, performance, and choreography combine to politically interrogate the…
DE(LANDSCAPING) THE FEMININE FORM – Danae Charalabidou

“Through this project I want to initiate a conversation, which is often taking place among my friends, about the experience of…
HEIMA/T – Marzena Skubatz

“Heima/t is the last look at a time full of deprivation, of loss in both senses, of home in Germany…
‘Teenage dreams’ – Thalia Gochez

Teenage Daydreams aimed to highlight the perspective and life of 17-year-old Ava artist: Thalia Gochez instagram It speaks to a transitional…
‘The Vulgarity of Being Three-Dimensional’ – Tine Bek

“Vulgarity, from the Latin term vulgus, was the term for common people, an insinuation of the ordinary. We consider the…
’18 h, le soir en été.’ – Faustine Martin

She captures, with a soft and solar light, the story of the comforting warmth found in holiday memories. «18 h,…
‘Dyal Thak’ – Kin Chan Coedel

DYAL THAK, in Tibetan means mutual ties, connection or “a common thread”. This series was created in 2021 on the…
BIG FISH – Laurence Kubski

I have always been intrigued by aquariums: man-made fictional marine worlds contained in complex staging machines, like living dioramas or…
‘April 2020’ – Isobel Rae

I made these breakfast stories and my hair portraits in the very beginning days of the pandemic. It was a…
THE UNCANNY BLISS – Elena Costa

“It’s almost four years by now that everyday I start my day taking meds and since then I’ve started thinking…
DEADFALL – Max Ferguson

“It is a photographic novel that weaves together literature and photography, inviting the reader to free-fall through the life, dreams,…
MONOTONY – Ania Vouloudi

“Animals line up, TVs coordinate, one leg gets injured and firecrackers blow up in the sky.” Artist: Ania VouloudiProject: Monotony Instagram / Website…
ICH DENKE AUCH FAMILIENBILDER – Linn Schröder

“Family pictures are photographs that help us remember and often even create memories. They can also be images that only…
L’ÉTÉ, LES RIVIÈRES DISPARAISSENT – Annabelle Fadat

“Our bodies sometimes take on animal morphologies, they immerse themselves in waters and forests, they seize and transform materials and…
THE CODE FOR FLOWERS. THE LAST STAR TO SHINE – Al Brydon

“Walking to nowhere. The Island within the Island.” Artist: Al BrydonProject: The Code for Flowers. The Last Star to ShineBook…
SOLILOQUY – William Zou

“Exploring family archives, self-portraits, and still life photography, William Zou’s series “soliloquy” interweaves and oscillates between personal past and present.”…
NOMADISM – Guillaume Holzer

“In the meanders of sparkling waters and infinite horizons I found myself face to face with this rebellious people who…
KWICHON – Dion Bierdrager & Kim Jisoo

“South Korea, with one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, has seen a decline in young people in the countryside…
ASKING FOR THE SUN – Steven Natusch

“I remember the warm shafts of light, brushing my skin and dipping the city into a tone of golden red…
ABANDONED BATTLEGROUND – Gülsen Namıduru

“Abandoned battleground is a photography project that focuses on urban peripheries and the objects that were thrown away or not…
INTIMATE ANONYMITY – Yuhao Chang

“The language of the collection conveys itself silently, figuratively implying a world where anonymity and intimacy coexist. These elements, which…
A HEARTH TO GATHER AROUND – Maximiliano Tineo

“The essay takes place in the context of migration and provides a personal look to uprooting and questions the concept…
AS WE REST IN THE SHADOWS – Andriana Nativio

“While driving through a small town in Tennessee four years ago, I met two sisters who invited me on an…
YOU FELT THE ROOTS GROW – Sabine Hess

“I hold your hand and, carefully, try to capture it. Imprint on my brain the texture of your wrinkly skin,…
STRANGELY FAMILIAR – Michal Chelbin

Many viewers tell me that the world discovered in my images is strange. If they find it strange, it is…
THINGS IN SILENCE – Anne Puhlmann

I consider myself as an introverted person, maybe that is why I cherish those raw moments so much, which let…
THE BODY IS A REVELATION AS IS LANDSCAPE – Sofia Masini

What can a body say about itself? How can we get back in touch with it? Can we become part…
LIMBURG – Lars Duchateau

Limburg documents traces of everyday life in the northeasternmost province of Belgium. Artist: Lars DuchateauProject: Limburg Self-published book Instagram / Website Based on…
ICHFOLGEDESSEN – Steffi Drerup

The quest for identity implies looking at the present and the past. Fragmentation and piecing together a puzzle reveal a…
LAND LOSS – Max Miechowska

In the work, natural cycles and geological erosion act as gentle and sometimes abrupt reminders of loss and impermanence.…
PETRICHOR – Matthias Leidinger

Petrichor is a project about the eager anticipation of the personal future to come, the restlessness of mind, searching for the…
MEMORY – Anastasiia Lisitsyna

When preparing this project i was thinking of those warm days of my childhood spent at the country-house with my…
LE SOLEIL PASSE A L’EMBRANCHEMENT – Iris Millot

With twelve years gone by since we last crossed paths, I meet my great aunt again. It’s a fortunate encounter.…
VARA – Martha Roschmann & Robert Kwaß

The collaborative photographic project Vara (summer) describes a divided Romanian society and tells the story of returning to one’s homeland.…
ORGANIC STRUCTURES – Beatriz Chaves

These images stem from a desire to capture the beauty of organic structures in their rawest form, but also the…
EAST FROM WHERE – Studio Hanniball

Marysia Myanovska „Oh, brother, where art thou?” Through 11 photographic positions, the group exhibition ‘East From Where’ deals with the…
THE NORTH FORK – Trent Davis Bailey

Collectively, the photographs in this book are informed by that backstory, but they also go well beyond it: conjuring up…
ÄNGELEN – Peter Wiklund

The sculptures that have captivated my interest all contain some form of spirituality. A natural and important – but often…
FEMININE DEVELOPMENT – Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen

Feminine Development is a series which talk about alienation of the female body and female sexual identity, which has often…
TWO WAYS TO CARRY A CAULIFLOWER – Emma Sarpaniemi

Often, playfulness can be perceived as naivety when associated with a female artist. However, in this project, Sarpaniemi employs it…
BETWEEN TWO SHORES – Tadas Kazakevičius

Maybe it is not a coincidence that human always chooses to stay close to the water as the water always…
TAXÍDI – Zoe Natale Mannella

I was not aware of the energy a group of female friends could generate, the spontaneousness of nudity, the joy…
in conversation with ERIC TABUCHI

“I drew up a very simple scenario, a kind of fable in which Midjourney’s appearance is represented by an explosion…
MY LOVE FOR YOU WAS NEVER REAL – Charlotte Helwig

The images are meditations on the unsatisfying feeling of eternal interminability. Artist: Charlotte HelwigProject: My love for you was never real…
NON TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES – Chloe Milos Azzopardi

How can we show an alternative future in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialized and technologized world? Artist…
WHERE THE SPIRIT MEETS THE BONE – Monique Belier

For someone else, they may just be dancers, but for me, they represent fragments of life, of my life. Artist: Monique…