Discovering Beauty in the Built Environment by David Fonda
Composition. It’s an inherent and integral aspect of the two-dimensional arts. In most art forms, composition is created by the artist. In photography, limited to using the visible world as its palette, 1 that composition must be discovered. The joy of that discovery, of finding beauty in juxtaposition within the frame, is what drives me as an artist.
Burning North; Exploring Beijing’s Soul by ChengLong Zhang
For more than ten years, I resided in Beijing, but I didn't really know it, and photography became an opportunity for me to explore the metropolis. The act of exploration signifies adventure, transcending from a familiar, secure realm to an unfamiliar territory.
From Healing Hands to Capturing Nature’s Elegy: Françoise Courtin’s Photographic Journey
Françoise Courtin is 64 years old. He is French and lives in Bressuire, a medium-sized city in the west of France with 20,000 inhabitants. He is not a professional photographer. He worked as a nurse in an operating room for nearly 40 years. His hobby was classical guitar, which he practiced at the conservatory in his city.
Apuan Alps; Mutant Mountains by Manuel Micheli
Throughout history, human beings have always lived with a mixture of attraction and fear in close contact with nature. Their entire existence was based on the knowledge that their life or death depended on it. About 10,000 years ago, with the birth and development of agriculture, the relationship between humans and nature began to change.
Tina Salipante’s Orphic Evanescences: Proustian Time and Feminine Force in Photography
Orphic evanescences is a project that i conceived with the aim of exploring the fleeting nature of existence through the medium of photography, emphasizing the connection between the proustian concept of time and the principle of the feminine as a creative force.
Pekka Innanen; The Journey of Self-Discovery Through Narrative and Art
This project encapsulates the essence of a transformative journey through the medium of personal storytelling. It is an intimate reflection of the individual's life, marked by significant memories and events that have shaped their identity. By transcribing these pivotal moments and revisiting them, the person engages in a profound dialogue with their past, applying a method of listening akin to their approach to music.
Yana Nosenko; The Search for Identity Between Russia and the United States
I haven’t been home for more than three years. I'm not even sure if my home is Moscow anymore. Every morning since leaving Russia, I have taken a self-portrait. The rules are simple: take a photograph right after waking up. No matter where, how, or with whom. This is my documentation of impermanence, the ritual that helps me stay grounded.
Strangerland by Lorenzo Vitali
Matching silence with rationality, color with too long shadows, contradicting the laws of perspective by going beyond reality. Waking up in a remote village in the middle of a flat plain.
Architecture and street photography; Urban Tales by Ieva Gaile
Urban Tales is a photo series that delves into the complex and multifaceted experience of living in a bustling metropolitan city. Through a unique blend of architecture and street photography, the project aims to capture the inherent tension that individuals face in urban environments.
Giovanni Sellari’s The Stressonauts: Art, Idleness, and Intergalactic Escape
Giovanni Sellari's project, "The Stressonauts," was born from his personal need for a momentary escape from daily life, from the intimate and inescapable desire to find the space and time to devote to one of the most indispensable activities for maintaining a psychophysical balance: idleness.
