When you say it in Russian there is not much difference between two words: “spasatel’”(“rescue officer” or “firefighter”)” and “spasitel’”(“savior”, “redeemer”, “Jesus Christ”), but the connotations are opposite. Rescue officers…
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Through my interest in documenting the contemporary western world, I considered the general lack of visual representations of issues related to older generations. That is when I met Mady and…
This project formed a creative investigation, to respond to the invisibility of 'blackness' in the visual history of Britain. A framework that critically but subtly shows this historic invisibility…
Working as a photojournalist in the Muslim world is no easy task. From the well-known cases of Western journalists being attacked during the so-called Arab spring in Egypt, to the…
Istanbul, economic and cultural capital of Turkey, the second fastest growing country after China, The city has an estimated 17 million inhabitants and 30% of national GDP. As only…
The third part of the journey of the photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer across fourteen countries continues! With Kenya, India, Switzerland and Vietnam behind them, Braschler/Fischer now take us…
Trained both as an artist and scientist, Deanna Witman searches for metaphysical understanding and meaning amongst the rocks and trees. She chooses to work with the pinhole camera because of…
Since 1989, photographer Thierry Bouët has sent postcards to his best friend, who never replies. Each postcard is manually prepared by Bouët in the same way: a picture made by the…
During the three years I spent in China, I tried to depict the urban transformation of the country from different angles. The seasons passed and the first winter cold froze…
Portraits of unknown persons, looking at the lens, at the photographer behind the lens, at the viewer through their impression on paper. Faces as individual, unique and singular beings. Various…