Japan, The Pathos of Things is the result of several months of travel across Japan in 2024 and 2025. In a period marked by global conflict and tension, the project emerged from a desire to search for a quieter and more reflective dimension of life.
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Don’t Grow Up, Dress Up is a photo series about a woman stuck in a rut of routine who dreams of a little fun. Who wants to be a grown-up? Nobody, I tell you. Why has it become accepted thinking that taking on a career, family, or other responsibilities means it’s time to dismiss childish things? Playing and being an adult are not mutually exclusive.
The Last Guardians of the Forest Luciana Trappolino: The Baka and Their Disappearing World
Apr 3, 2026
In a clearing in the heart of the equatorial forest of Cameroon lives one of the last groups of Baka Pygmies, one of Africa's oldest peoples. Their organization is centered around the family or small communities, where important decisions are made collectively, eliminating the need for a specific leader, although the eldest member remains a key point of reference.
The Clastic Herbarium occupies a zone of friction between scientific taxonomy and the instability of the contemporary image. Far from the illustrated herbarium tradition—which seeks to fix, classify, and preserve—this body of photographs introduces a logic of fragmentation that destabilizes the documentary status of botanical representation.
Dhobis of Lucknow Behind the Threads of Chikankari by Ishita Yadav A Story of Work and Survival
Apr 2, 2026
Originating in Lucknow, Chikankari embroidery stands as the city’s signature craft and cultural hallmark. It has created a strong appeal in the Indian market. Apart from the labor of the artisans that goes into the making of Chikankari kurtas, there is a crucial step in its production carried out by the Dhobi community.
Functions Without Use by Loredana Sansavini Exploring Suspended Spaces in Contemporary Photography
Apr 2, 2026
Functions Without Use explores constructed spaces and ordinary places in which their intended function is suspended or inactive. The project highlights how everyday environments, designed for use, can exist independently of the actions or activities they were meant to host. The sequence opens with the closed shutter of a bar: frontal, essential, immediate. Here, something is expected to happen, yet nothing occurs. This threshold introduces the central theme of the project: suspended function and ordinary...
This photoshoot explores human nature through a mystical, storytelling lens. Crown of Time tells the story of a king who seized his crown through war, setting off a chain of pain and destiny. The project is built as a visual narrative in which each image functions as a fragment of a larger story.
This series explores the quiet presence of the Baltic Sea and the subtle emotional landscape shaped by northern light. Living in Österlen, on the southern coast of Sweden, the artist is surrounded by vast horizons, wind, and an ever changing sky.
Tepito, one of Mexico City’s toughest neighbourhoods, is the historic cradles of Mexican boxing. Here, boxing is not merely a sport; it is resistance, identity, and, for many, the only path toward dignity and survival.
Through intimate portraiture of its diverse citizenry, the proud Goans, the new infusion of migrant labor and cosmopolitan influence of city folk, the faces become a living archive, a document of visual ethnography that charts an identity of a place caught in an incandescent friction of contemporary times.
The Frozen Gallery of the Southern Ocean. Antarctica serves as the world’s most exclusive open-air gallery, where the art is sculpted by the relentless forces of gravity, wind, and tide. These floating cathedrals are not merely blocks of frozen water; they are ephemeral sculptures that defy human imagination.
For over three decades, Myriam Aadli has developed a rigorous photographic practice rooted in the humanist tradition while critically reactivating its relevance in a contemporary visual landscape marked by acceleration and image saturation.
Impacts of Phosphate Rock Mining on Nauru by Stuart Chape: From Abundance to Degradation
Mar 31, 2026
The small Pacific country of Nauru is a raised limestone island only 21 km² in area, with a maximum elevation of 71 metres above sea level, first inhabited by the Nauruan people about 3,000 years ago.
On 29 April 1991, when Cyclone Gorky struck the coastal belt of Chattogram, I was a 21-year-old second-year medical student. The storm had formed just days earlier in the Bay of Bengal, on 24 April, before intensifying into a Category 5–equivalent cyclone, with winds reaching up to 260 km/h.
The series "Water as a Scriptor" is a conceptual study of "auto-generative" art, where the photograph serves as a silent witness to a complex dialogue between light, moisture, and biological pathfinding. By eschewing digital manipulation in favour of a rigorous "in-camera" process, these works document a microscopic calligraphy etched upon the translucent membrane of glass.
My photographic collages serve as a metaphor for anticipation, those moments when the unknown is being revealed. Pivotal moments when life turns a corner into new and exciting phases, heightening our awareness and bringing us fully into the moment of discovering what comes next.
Mapping Dissonance: America 2025 by Nancy Richards Farese – Art, Identity and a Changing Nation
Mar 27, 2026
Mapping Dissonance: America 2025 is a visual archive of an extraordinary year in America. This project began in January 2025 as an exploration of life increasingly lived through screens. I wanted to document the forces shaping our everyday lives that were so difficult to make visible: AI beginning to hold our ideas and our intellect — and us letting go.
I’d like to describe myself as a ‘two-dimensional sculptor’ who prefers to work with female dancers, since they are able to combine power with grace in a very natural way. My style is strongly influenced by my background as a graphic designer: it is rather simple and direct.
Abyssal Saints is a series of multiple-exposure, light-painted photographs that explore the liminal spaces where emotion, trauma, and autistic perception, his own way of sensing and processing the world, begin to take shape.
More Than You Could Ever Know by Liv Mann Tremblay: Exploring Human Connection to Nature
Mar 26, 2026
The work questions how culture, domesticity, and religion can create divisions between humans and the natural world, as well as between individuals and their own organic nature. The series gently reflects on what is considered socially acceptable, both historically and in the present.
In this series, she aims to explore the significance of personal mythologies, those quiet, internal narratives that shape how individuals understand themselves and the world around them. She is drawn to the spaces where memory, emotion, and perception blur, where the body becomes both subject and landscape, and where nature mirrors interior states.
There are presences that are very small, almost indistinct, yet carry a feeling that is difficult to name. He is not drawn to grand or impressive scenes, but rather to very small details. As someone drawn to nature and quietness, he tends to photograph simple, modest things, or those that exist in a very subtle way.
Silent Selves is a series of twelve minimalist photographs organized into four thematic subjects. Through close observation of fallen autumn leaves, the work reflects on identity, change, and the subtle transformations that occur beneath the surface of everyday life.
Laundry Room documents a unique theater initiative in the town of Pionki in the Masovian Voivodeship of Poland. Around three percent of the population lives with intellectual disabilities, a proportion reflected in the town itself. Twenty-five years ago, local authorities created a support center to provide assistance and meaningful social participation for these individuals.
Through the Glass America by Rail by Stephen J Rauch Exploring America Through a Train Window
Mar 25, 2026
Through the Glass: America by Rail documents a cross-country journey through the United States aboard the national rail service Amtrak. Founded in 1971, Amtrak connects hundreds of cities across the country, offering a slower and more observational alternative to travel by air or automobile.
Total Theater is a personal investigation into the layered identities that exist within the world of theater. The project began in 2023, when the artist returned to a theatrical environment twenty-five years after studying acting. Although he ultimately chose a different path in life, that early experience left a lasting mark on his personality and perception.
Japanese Travel is a photographic diary born from a journey through Japan, guided not by itinerary but by attention and silence. The project draws inspiration from a haiku by Matsuo Bashō, whose brief verses capture fleeting moments of perception and transform them into enduring reflections.
How does one’s position determine what is seen and how it is perceived? And how does this, in turn, shape the understanding of things? These questions form the starting point of this series of works. The images were photographed along the Grand Canal of Alsace, located in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Switzerland.
The Most Beautiful Anthropocene is a body of work in which nature itself becomes the author of the image. Rather than photographing landscapes in a conventional sense, the project allows environmental forces to physically produce the photograph.
Echoes of Stillness is a still life photography series that constructs carefully staged visual narratives through light, color, and composition. Each image is deliberately orchestrated, with multiple elements arranged to create a balanced and cohesive scene where objects interact and guide the viewer’s eye through the composition.
Peripheral Visions is a reflection on time, perception, and the fragile place human life occupies within the vast scale of the universe. The project begins with a simple observation: time seems to pass, stretch, and contract according to our experience of it. Seconds slip by, moments expand, and what appears constant reveals itself to be deeply subjective.
This project explores the tradition of Armenian carpet weaving as a living connection between past and future. In Armenian culture, carpets are far more than decorative objects. They represent continuity, memory, and identity, providing both spiritual meaning and material comfort across generations.
Soft Focus is a photographic exploration of memory, atmosphere, and the subtle emotional traces left behind by everyday moments. Inspired in part by the sensibility of Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot, the series approaches photography not as a tool for precise description but as a medium capable of translating fleeting sensations into visual form.
Faded Feast is a self-portrait series that explores the complexities of human connection through the language of touch, movement, and emotional proximity. The work examines how intimacy exists not only in physical contact but also in the invisible exchanges that occur between bodies, emotions, and memory.
The New Athenians is a photographic exploration of contemporary Athens, a city where ancient history and rapid social transformation coexist in striking ways. With a population of around three million, Athens carries the weight of its classical past while simultaneously navigating the realities of economic crisis
Ghosts of the Forest explores the quiet, almost mystical atmosphere found within aspen groves. Walking among these pale trunks often feels like crossing a threshold between the physical world and something just beyond perception.
Cowboys | After Barbed Wire examines the mythology surrounding the figure of the cowboy and its persistent role in shaping cultural identity and gender narratives. The project explores how a historical reality that lasted only a brief moment in time evolved into one of the most enduring and influential archetypes in the global imagination.
I spent the first twenty years of my life in a small farming community in southwest Iowa. From as early as I can remember, I felt a strange form of spatial dysphoria, as if I had been born in the wrong place. Even though my hometown and the surrounding communities were all I knew, it never felt like home or like the place where my life was meant to unfold.
In Conversations with Myself, Jo Ann Chaus constructs a complex visual narrative of introspection and identity. The series unfolds as an intimate yet exposed journey, where the artist turns the camera toward herself not to perform, but to investigate the layers of self shaped by memory, expectation and experience.
Sonepur Mela by Maciej Dakowicz – A Visual Journey Through India’s Legendary Livestock Fair
Mar 17, 2026
The Sonepur Cattle Fair, also known as the Sonepur Mela, is one of the largest and most famous livestock fairs in Asia. It takes place every year in the Indian state of Bihar, in the small town of Sonepur (also spelled Sonpur), which lies close to the city of Patna.
I transcribe some of my dialogues with mystery. I do so in the form of fragments from a personal diary. It is my way of writing. It is not a dialogue of words responding to words, but of words responding to a presence. Presence always comes first.
With his camera under the driver’s seat or on his shoulder as he moves from one place to another, Josh Robenstone captures moments that exist in fractions of time, constantly and everywhere.
It has now been eight years since the completion of Soldiery, a sweeping portraiture project that consumed over three years of Rory Lewis’s life between 2016 and 2019. The British Army is a proudly diverse institution steeped in heritage, pageantry, and unyielding tradition. With Soldiery—which culminated in both a nationwide exhibition and a published book—Lewis set out to create a contemporary reflection of historic military portraiture.
In 1890 Eritrea became an Italian colony, with Massawa as its capital. A few years later, because of its cooler climate and its position at around 2,300 meters above sea level, Asmara was chosen as the administrative centre of the colony.
Deli Flowers After Dark by Anja Hitzenberger: A Photo Project on Disappearing Manhattan Delis
Mar 13, 2026
“Deli Flowers After Dark” was created during late-night walks in Manhattan, photographing flowers, plants, and night-shift workers in run-down New York City delis (small grocery stores, mostly open 24/7, similar to the “Spätis” found in Berlin).
At a recent solo exhibition of my photographs in Minneapolis, a psychiatrist introduced himself and said that he felt I capture who people really are. People who push convention are especially appealing to me. My background as a documentary filmmaker has helped me find subjects and make them feel comfortable.
I first learned about Manny Jimenez in a story published in the Los Angeles Times. The article described his remarkable journey from a former gang member growing up in East Los Angeles to someone who had transformed his life through a deep love for the art of filmmaking.
George Floyd Square by Terry Barczak: A Photographic Chronicle of a Living Memorial in Minneapolis
Mar 12, 2026
On May 25th, 2020, George Perry Floyd Jr., a Black man from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a White city police officer. Captured on video by a bystander, the broad daylight image of George Floyd pleading for his life while officer Chauvin knelt on George’s neck spread across the nation and the world.