Visual Culture for the digital age
By now, we’re sure you’ve come across Carl van der Linde’s transportive photographs detailing his most recent trip to Zanzibar. Carl’s series, which first debuted on i-D, chronicles his time in Zanzibar where he documented, interacted, and immersed himself within the vibrant youth culture of young Zanzibari men.
Read MoreThese pictures are an attempt to capture my experiences of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country often ignored and misunderstood. I wanted to illustrate the energy of life there; the colours, the variety, and the vast calm of the meandering river that defines the country.
Read MoreMona Benyamin (b.1997, Haifa) is a Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker, and in 2020, she obtained her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Her works explore intergenerational outlooks on hope, trauma, and questions of identity, using humour and irony as subversive tools of resistance and reflection.
Read MoreThis work aims to investigate the meaning of sensitivity, meant as the experience of knowing through the senses, the subjective filters that we use when exploring space and time, according to Kant’s views in which space is form and representation, and time generates emotional perceptions.
Read More“Panadella” shows the pulse of a place against what seems inevitable. It investigates the existential tension and the dissolution of a place that has lost its status and its identity because of being displaced by technology. "Panadella" delves into a charismatic location from a supposedly extinct era that nevertheless survives on the outskirts.
Read MoreThe Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 devastated the Iwate coast. Towns inundated, homes destroyed and loved ones lost. Overtime, things gradually return to normal, and survivors too are trying to move forward.
Scars, however, still remain…
Read MoreHaving faced numerous challenges as a trans person in everyday gyms, Max, a boxer and trans advocate, wanted to create a safe space for other people like himself–one that takes LGBTQ+ people out of the shadows by honing in on their strength through training that’s both fun and safe.
Read MoreThe Loop is an ongoing series by Justin Rinsley documenting the bike paths in Tucson, Arizona. Bike paths and rail trails provide widespread public access to the outdoors, recreation, and transportation. They have been an effective solution to safe bicycle transportation over the past decade. These projects often repurpose remnants of historical and industrial significance to a city.
Read MoreThese series of photographs is an ongoing project by Wishnu Mahaprana called Likewise. This project aims to visually tell a concept to live life in a balanced way, whether it's around our social life, work life, nature, or our own well being.
Read MoreIn Melanie Hübner’s eponymous work after the song of John Milton Paradise Lost“, the human being as such is no longer visible. Only his traces remain. Human beings are not able to exercise control anymore, because they replace themselves with the technology they have created. Not a single person will be depicted on the pictures. People build a tendency to not meet anymore, so the question left is: is it technology that is supposed to be the “one“ to “restore us and regain the blissful seat"?“.
Read MorePhotographer Kai Yokoyama writes, "The day you were born, I wasn't born yet." His musing traces the temporal arc between present and past, and therefore, became the likely title for his series below. When the pandemic began in 2020, like many others, Yokoyama’s grasp of control loosened. He found stability however, through spending time with his parents and re-connecting to his past
Read MoreThere’s an ancient mnemonic technique called the “Memory Palace” that consists in mentally recreating a visual path of well-known places to associate them with a list of new elements positioned along the way. Inspired by this technique, Julian Rieutort initiated a photographic work about memory.
Read MoreA selection of photographs taken from Virginia Hanusik’s All the Good Earth. Her series, which focuses on the fluid, yet engineered landscapes of South Louisiana, is an extension of her wider explorations of the relationship between landscape, culture, and built environment.
Read MoreJingchao Su was born in Fuzhou, China, and currently lives in Xiamen. His photography focuses on social scenes with signs of overwhelm, trying to cut into the depths of daily life, and depict an underlying chaotic natural state or ambiguously symbolic picture.
Read MoreIn The Ancient Ways, Ted Homer records the ancient paths of The Salt Way, Welsh Way and White Way, over one winter as they cross the Cotswolds.
Read MoreGabriela Ureta is an Ecuadorian documentary photographer currently living in London, but soon due to return home to Ecuador. Her initial interest in documentary photography stemmed from its unique method of storying the individual moments that define a person’s life. Here, her series The Waltzes of Don Claudio is indicative of her emphatic approach.
Read MoreOrsolya Luca’s series 12 months documents her personal perception of our current state of living during the pandemic. The 30 images below are a broad selection from thousands of images she took in the past 12 months. This selection’s muddled aesthetics juxtaposes our human responses–of masks and social distancing–to unaffected architecture and natural landscapes.
Read MoreKanrapee Chokpaiboon’s The Good Place observes Varanasi, one of India’s Holy cities.
Read MoreA selection of photographs by Irish photographer John Paul Quigley.
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Spanning over a decade of photos, Normal for Norfolk begins at the photographer’s final visit to his family’s holiday home in the Norfolk village of Snettisham, aged Fourteen. The series depicts subsequent visits to the surrounding towns and villages on the North Norfolk coast that the photographer frequented as a child. The series takes its title form the derogatory phrase used to exemplify the historically perceived strangeness and backwardness of the county.
The project began as an observation of the English coast, documenting the quirks, charms and contradictions of the seaside tourist destinations that once boomed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, now since in decline. This social documentary approach is fused with a biographical narrative, presenting the photographer’s long and changing relationship with the region and the people he associates with the area. Family excursions, drunken teenage weekend and professional trips capture the nostalgic rush of returning to the stages on which childhood is played out. Pastel paints are sun-faded, neon signs don’t burn as bright and the helter-skelter seems smaller than it used to.
