Franziska Ostermann

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Franziska Ostermann Selfobservation websiteInstagram What do the photographic self-portraits that wake in the networks as avatars do while we surf or sleep?Photographic splinters of views of our selfs represent our identity in a place that we ourselves cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its own representation. Photography can act as a mediator […]

Julie Scheurweghs

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JULIE SCHEURWEGHS Woman as parts websiteInstagram The female gaze is somewhat of a recurring subject in Scheurweghs her work. It’s a term used to counter ‘the male gaze’ that was coined by film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975. The male gaze in both film and photography is always looking, while the female body is always being looked […]

Makis Makris

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MAKIS MAKRIS Panta Rhei websiteInstagram This is an allegorical visual narrative, inspired by the well-known phrase of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Everything flows and everything in the Universe is indeed continually on the move. Everything changes, nothing stays the same, there is no absolute truth, the only reality is perennial movement. Makis Makris is […]

Wei Wei

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WEI WEI Dizzy websiteInstagram This set of photos was inspired by a virtual game. Is the way we experience games also a reflection of real life?Nowadays, virtual games are becoming more and more real, and people are constantly pursuing perfect picture quality and rich sensory experience. The line between simulation and reality becomes blurred. That’s […]

Diego Moreno

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DIEGO MORENO Melancholy   websiteInstagram Melancholy is a graphic intervention project on my personal archive, through acrylic paint, oil, or graphite, reflecting on the nostalgia of love breakups. Through archival images of couples that I have collected over the years, including my family’s, I revisit the complexity of relationships, where drama, pain, desire, and the […]

Lorena Florio

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LORENA FLORIO Lacerazioni   Instagram In an attempt to create representations of reality without spatial-temporal constraints, my visual research often begins with simple elements that are subjected to various processes, both physical and digital. Through these levels of transformation of the photographed subject, I try to dig deep while considering what is really hiding behind […]

Laura Chen

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LAURA CHEN Words From Dad   websiteInstagram ‘Words From Dad’ is an ongoing series that explores my Dutch-Chinese heritage and identity. With the use of archival images from my own family albums, I trace back my mixed roots through my grandfather’s life stories as told by my dad. I am originally from The Netherlands. I […]

Guillaume Tomasi

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GUILLAUME TOMASI A bloom in the eye of the storm website Instagram How do we grow up in a society that constantly reminds us that our way of life is leading us inexorably to our loss? Through the gaze of a father towards his children, A bloom in the eye of the storm focuses on […]

Cristiano Volk

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Cristiano Volk Laissez-Faire   websiteInstagram Imagine a life lived under the glow of artificial daylight, where reality is not experienced directly, but mediated through screens. Imagine a world so densely networked that all of the distinctions by which we have learned to make sense of time and place – interior and exterior, private and public, […]

Pascal Greco

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PASCAL GRECO Place(s)   websiteInstagram In the continuation of his 2013 project No Cliché, published by Jane & Jeremy, which aimed at conveying an unusual imagery of much-photographed Iceland, Greco had decided on January 2020 to further portray the island. But as the pandemic cut short any perspectives of travelling back, Greco set on a […]

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