Francesco Capasso - Vuoto Invernale
Francesco Capasso’s series of photographs taken at the Coppola village in the province of Naples
Read MoreKen Lam - The Jobs We Did
It’s nearing a year since we last spoke to Kenneth Lam about his series The End of an Era. His latest project, The Jobs We Did, represents another year of further introspection, which explores the idiosyncrasies of first generation Chinese children, specifically those who worked in their parents’ takeaways and restaurants.
Read MoreTamara Arranz - Chorrillo Esperanza
El Chorrillo is a neighbourhood in Panama City, founded in 1915 by workers and students, mostly of African descent, who found employment in the construction of the Canal. 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of the US invasion that disproportionately destroyed this neighbourhood in less than 24 hours without any international impact.
Read MorePaco Poyato - El Muro Invisible
32 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The political, ideological, and in some cases physical frontier divided not only Germany, but the entire world in two axes; one of a capitalist character and his nemesis, the communist.
Read MoreLiu Jin - The Place
Liu’s series The Place–void of much direct human presence—captures the decades of history that have been left within the architecture and objects of Dali city. The themes of these stories—a vespa branded with an American flag, the Cangshan Mountain peak, a visitor basking in the sun—overlap and conflict with collective romanticizations and their physical realizations.
Read MoreEmilia Martin - Far From Here, Where Darkness Lies
Read MoreFar from here, where darkness lies “(...) to reclaim perspective in a universe Where science and wisdom are no longer valued to escape talking heads who pontificate ceaselessly on screens large and small, generating more heat than enlightenment While I remain bewildered in darkness.”
Martina Martorelli - Sixty Days
Sixty Days by Martina Martorelli is a devastating portrait, which details how Covid-19 impacted the daily lives of her grandparents–in particular her grandfather who was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Read MoreNicolas Duclos - Benidorm, Topography of Mass Tourism
Benidorm, Topography of Mass Tourism explores the architecture of mass tourism. It is an attempt at understanding how the city was entirely planned to welcome the excesses of tourism.
Read MoreMax Knight - I Think You Dropped Something
As photographer Max Knight recovered from a difficult period in his life, he began to see colour and humour in the everyday again as expressed in his series I Think You Dropped Something.
Read MoreCi Demi - Eminönü Blues
Ci Demi’s Eminönü Blues is a series of harmonious disasters, which attempts to understand the fabric of İstanbul.
Read MoreFabio Catanzaro - Edges, Shadows, Lines and Details
Edges, Shadows, Lines and Details explores Fabio Catanzaro's sense of freedom and essentiality during the easing of anti-pandemic restrictions. His work combines themes such as details, lines and patterns through architectural observations.
Leah Frances - Things Were Never Normal
Leah Frances’ MFA Thesis Exhibition will be on view from December 15–18, 2021 at the Temple Contemporary Gallery, Tyler School of Art & Architecture Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Actively using photography to explore the residue of time and human effort, I create portraits of place, mindful of the individuals who have been there before and may be there again. Imaginary one-to-one conversations with these ghosts, so to speak, allow me to invest in the possibility that within this divided nation, we might, one day, understand and respect each other. I harness light to grasp at moments of joy in complicated environments — an attempt to pull myself out of today’s prevailing us-versus-them mentality and the fear, anxiety, anger, confusion, and disappointment I have been feeling. If half the country is engaged in backward-looking, what are they seeing? With these images—my attempts to go to, and document, the things themselves — I hope to create an opening for deep looking and the exploration of multiple layers of meaning, an encounter with complex histories rather than one-dimensional, familiar tropes. “
Loïc Vendrame - Heterotopia
Today's metropolises reflect the globalized policies and economies of the world we live in, which participate in both fragmentation (segregation, division, separation) and homogenization (coherence, conformity, uniformity) of these spaces. Indeed, these “neoliberal cities” are increasingly spread out, partitioned, and discontinuous, and are in themselves heterotopias as they have the power to juxtapose several incompatible spaces within the same space (Foucault, 1967). Gated communities, with their systems of openings and closures, inclusivity and a distinct identity within the gates are one of the symbols of modern heterotopias. If utopia offers an ideal without a real place, heterotopia corresponds to a real place. How does heterotopia take shape in today's urban landscapes? How to appropriate these heterotopic spaces and identities? Through a documentary photographic study of the peripheral landscapes of neoliberal cities, the Heterotopia project proposes to see and glimpse the urban heterotopia through its geographical margins. The approach is both simple and complex: to offer a counterbalance to the traditional visual imagery of the city's identity, and thus to question the mental representation that everyone has of it. Ankara, the Turkish capital, is one of the showcases. With more than 5 million inhabitants, this city associated with the neoliberal restructuring of the country's economy, while maintaining a certain moral conservatism through the construction of new mosques, is in constant transformation and development.
Eric Scaggiante - Venezia
I like to spend long walks in Venice, alone, with my camera and flash, shooting humans and other animals mainly, trying to catch the reality I see; sometimes I'm able to catch it, sometimes not, it's research.
Read MoreLeslie Shang - Cypress Slope
Using the research of his own family history and the arrangement of family materials–old photos, letters, video screenshots, interviews and surveys–as clues, Leslie Shang Zhefeng weaves together the experiences of four generations to intimately narrate Chinese family life throughout the modern centuries.
Read MoreDana Stirling - Why Am I Sad?
As a teen and young adult, I spent all my time inside my room. I always felt alone within these walls, alone when I was out, alone when I was with friends, just alone. Family was not a comfort, it was a cause for much of the stress, anxiety and mainly the sadness I felt.
Read MoreJoshua McMillan - Midnight at Sixty-Four
Midnight at Sixty-Four by Joshua McMillan is a study of midnight light in a northern town where the sun never sets.
Read MoreVicente Fraga - Fluvial
In this project I explore the characteristic landscape of the Galician rivers, places far from human intervention.
Read MoreMark Mahaney - Polar Night
Northernmost town in the United States. 320 miles above the Arctic Circle. The name translates to ‘place where snowy owls are hunted.’
Read MoreFabio Catanzaro - The Street Lamps
They are fully inserted in any urban context, planted in the earth. By now most of us don't even notice their presence, those tall metal constructions that illuminate at night but remain awake during the day, watching over the whole territory.
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