Visual Culture for the digital age
Read MoreFar from here, where darkness lies “(...) to reclaim perspective in a universe Where science and wisdom are no longer valued to escape talking heads who pontificate ceaselessly on screens large and small, generating more heat than enlightenment While I remain bewildered in darkness.”
Sixty Days by Martina Martorelli is a devastating portrait, which details how Covid-19 impacted the daily lives of her grandparents–in particular her grandfather who was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Read MoreBenidorm, Topography of Mass Tourism explores the architecture of mass tourism. It is an attempt at understanding how the city was entirely planned to welcome the excesses of tourism.
Read MoreAs photographer Max Knight recovered from a difficult period in his life, he began to see colour and humour in the everyday again as expressed in his series I Think You Dropped Something.
Read MoreCi Demi’s Eminönü Blues is a series of harmonious disasters, which attempts to understand the fabric of İstanbul.
Read MoreEdges, Shadows, Lines and Details explores Fabio Catanzaro's sense of freedom and essentiality during the easing of anti-pandemic restrictions. His work combines themes such as details, lines and patterns through architectural observations.
Leah Frances’ MFA Thesis Exhibition will be on view from December 15–18, 2021 at the Temple Contemporary Gallery, Tyler School of Art & Architecture Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Actively using photography to explore the residue of time and human effort, I create portraits of place, mindful of the individuals who have been there before and may be there again. Imaginary one-to-one conversations with these ghosts, so to speak, allow me to invest in the possibility that within this divided nation, we might, one day, understand and respect each other. I harness light to grasp at moments of joy in complicated environments — an attempt to pull myself out of today’s prevailing us-versus-them mentality and the fear, anxiety, anger, confusion, and disappointment I have been feeling. If half the country is engaged in backward-looking, what are they seeing? With these images—my attempts to go to, and document, the things themselves — I hope to create an opening for deep looking and the exploration of multiple layers of meaning, an encounter with complex histories rather than one-dimensional, familiar tropes. “
Today's metropolises reflect the globalized policies and economies of the world we live in, which participate in both fragmentation (segregation, division, separation) and homogenization (coherence, conformity, uniformity) of these spaces. Indeed, these “neoliberal cities” are increasingly spread out, partitioned, and discontinuous, and are in themselves heterotopias as they have the power to juxtapose several incompatible spaces within the same space (Foucault, 1967). Gated communities, with their systems of openings and closures, inclusivity and a distinct identity within the gates are one of the symbols of modern heterotopias. If utopia offers an ideal without a real place, heterotopia corresponds to a real place. How does heterotopia take shape in today's urban landscapes? How to appropriate these heterotopic spaces and identities? Through a documentary photographic study of the peripheral landscapes of neoliberal cities, the Heterotopia project proposes to see and glimpse the urban heterotopia through its geographical margins. The approach is both simple and complex: to offer a counterbalance to the traditional visual imagery of the city's identity, and thus to question the mental representation that everyone has of it. Ankara, the Turkish capital, is one of the showcases. With more than 5 million inhabitants, this city associated with the neoliberal restructuring of the country's economy, while maintaining a certain moral conservatism through the construction of new mosques, is in constant transformation and development.
I like to spend long walks in Venice, alone, with my camera and flash, shooting humans and other animals mainly, trying to catch the reality I see; sometimes I'm able to catch it, sometimes not, it's research.
Read MoreUsing the research of his own family history and the arrangement of family materials–old photos, letters, video screenshots, interviews and surveys–as clues, Leslie Shang Zhefeng weaves together the experiences of four generations to intimately narrate Chinese family life throughout the modern centuries.
Read MoreAs a teen and young adult, I spent all my time inside my room. I always felt alone within these walls, alone when I was out, alone when I was with friends, just alone. Family was not a comfort, it was a cause for much of the stress, anxiety and mainly the sadness I felt.
Read MoreMidnight at Sixty-Four by Joshua McMillan is a study of midnight light in a northern town where the sun never sets.
Read MoreIn this project I explore the characteristic landscape of the Galician rivers, places far from human intervention.
Read MoreNorthernmost town in the United States. 320 miles above the Arctic Circle. The name translates to ‘place where snowy owls are hunted.’
Read MoreThey are fully inserted in any urban context, planted in the earth. By now most of us don't even notice their presence, those tall metal constructions that illuminate at night but remain awake during the day, watching over the whole territory.
Read MoreI am in constant agitation, stuck in an in-between. I want to move on but can’t I can’t quite get past this stuttering.
Read MoreIn her ongoing series, Jialin Yan poignantly confronts death and embraces the undercurrents of her uncle, grandfather and grandmother’s presence in her world which continues to flow.
Read MoreAlessandra Valletti explores the succession of time through fragmented images in her series I Don’t Remember Coming Home
Read MoreThe Russian North is an endless snow-white napkin, crumpled with hills of Khibiny mountains and giant snowdrifts. The treeless landscape here makes everything flat and all human manifestations seem to strive to overcome this flatness: striped pipes of factories soaring up into the sky, Soviet «copy-paste» apartment blocks and power line towers stick out of the ground, as if the rest of the map is still rendering.
Read More"When I'm old I want to be like that." talks about optimism, enthusiasm, enjoyment, doing the things you've always wanted to do and that it's never too late, even when you're 80 years old and your strength is failing. This project speaks of the fact that old age can be a new youth.
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