Visual Culture for the digital age
I’m a Budapest based commercial colorist, but one of my hobbies is photography. I wanted to start a project for years that explores Andrei Tarkovsky's idea about cinema (that it is sculpting in time) and apply it to another medium: photography.
Read MoreRiturné (Come Back in Piedmontese language) is an exploration of the inner self through the return to one’s hometown. The province of Cuneo, in the northern Italian region of Piemonte, seeing it with new eyes after many years living out of the country. The need to establish a new connection with it.
Read MoreIn September of 2022, after working on a month-long conservation documentary project, where a great deal of Willem’s time was spent at sea along the coast of Iceland, he decided it was time to escape life’s growing doom and gloom. Willem as he puts it, “Did the only thing I could do and the one thing I knew has always worked for me:” he took to the road on a solo adventure with only a backpack and a traveller’s necessities. He spent 10 days hitchhiking around the whole of Iceland, rediscovering the sublime landscapes of the country, himself, and our impact as humans on this planet during a time when we’ve increasingly lost our respect and once nurturing relationship with it.
Read MoreThe System of Objects focuses on interior spaces especially modern residential spaces with the structure of spaces, the shape of objects in them, and the way they are displayed.
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My work is concerned with ideas of home and dislocation. As an ethnically Latvian/Lithuanian artist my cultural background has informed this interest in architecture. During the Soviet era, the capitals of both Latvia and Lithuania saw cultural buildings repurposed into warehouses and churches demolished. New construction was cheaply made, with no insulation and inadequate plumbing and heating. My connection to this history has made me acutely aware of the impact of politics on architecture and, in turn, on a people’s daily lived experience. I started to consider the effect of architecture on the tens of thousands of refugees, my parents included, who escaped a life under communism but went years without a permanent home. Many of the structures built during the Soviet occupation of the Baltic region still stand today. During this period the Baltic people continued to practice art forms such as weaving to ensure that their traditions would survive, despite the Soviet regime’s program of cultural suppression.
“What Remains” combines my photographs of Soviet architecture in the Baltic region with traditional Baltic textile designs. I use a laser cutter to cut the textile patterns directly onto my black and white photographs of the cold and imposing buildings. This series explores the power of folk art and crafts as a form of defiance against the Soviet occupiers. It does this by focusing on how traditional textile designs provide a counterpoint to Soviet-era architecture and the memory of its totalitarian agenda. The juxtaposition of concrete structures with folk art designs also references the strength and determination of the women who created the weavings. Overall, this work examines the ways in which people are shaped by their environment, and how they can rebel against it to preserve their identity and culture.
Pour the liquid into the glass slowly, the top of the glass will gradually bulge upward due to the tension of the water to form a circular arc. Each time more liquid is injected, the arc rises a bit, and finally reaches the moment when it is about to overflow.
Livata is the mountain of Rome. A place of second homes handed down from generation to generation, born in the 1960s and an expression of Italian architecture that takes up the lesson of American chalets.
Read MoreI really like to use Integral film to portray my subjects in more ways than light and shadow. By breaking the medium you can show more complexities to the character.
Read MoreI spent the summer shooting and living in Palestine. I was exploring the idea of inheritance: inheriting dreams, inheriting trauma, inheriting land and olive trees…
Read MoreRecently, while selecting work to present, I’ve become increasingly drawn to images that are equal parts ordinary and otherworldly.
Read More“Life in the apartment showed a new way of progressing in thinking. When the political situation has changed, the status of these blocks also changed…”
Read MoreThis is the portrait of life on and around a fishing boat named Cabrera. Cabrera is a seine boat for sardine and the like. Her and her crew who go out every night, fishing at dawn, to bring in the morning the fish that thousands of people consume every day.
Read MoreOwen McCullum’s ongoing work deals with the very personal notion of home and one’s place in the world.
Read MoreThe essential accessory is a triptych that imagines a dystopian reality in which people have stopped using the brain…
Read MoreTell us of pain is a project developed in the provinces of Naples and Salerno in 2021. It is a journey through the colours of the soul…
Read MoreThis series was made on black and white Ilford film this spring. After Russia started a full scale war in Ukraine on the 24th of February I had to leave my home in Kyiv and look for a safer place.
Read MoreVincenzo Pagliuca developed his project sifting through the entire Italian Southern Appenine, searching for precise light conditions, photographing during the winter months and at sunrise. The framing is reduced to its essentials. At the centre, solitary houses immersed in the natural environment, acting as metaphysical pulls.
Read MoreHuman's desire for nature seems to be inversely correlated with the progress of civilization. With the increasing pressure of urban life, in recent years, a number of young people choose to come to Hainan Wanning to live. This migration towards the island and reverse urbanization seems to be the practice and experiment of the young people who come here to build an ideal life in order to resist anxiety, nothingness and futility.
Read MoreMystic is a small town in the United States, Connecticut State. When the weather turns cold the sunny town transforms into a world in the mist.
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