Born and raised in Germany, Birthe Piontek moved to Canada in 2005 after receiving her MFA from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. Birthe’s art practice explores the relationship between memory and identity, with a special interest in the topic of female identity and its representation in our society. Abendlied, her recent […]
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‘Snake Legs’ by Max Zerrahn
Max Zerrahn is a photographer based in Berlin. His first book Snake Legs 蛇足, published by White Belt Publishing, focuses in everyday scenes and details of a bustling metropolis, that would typically go unnoticed in the rush of a city of 38 million inhabitants. The consistent framing, which avoids the abstract snapshots, the smart double-view […]
‘Halfstory Halflife’ by Raymond Meeks
Raymond Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York. He gains inspiration by book narrative and collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of image and text. Halfstory Halflife, his recent body of work, is a visual biography of the post-teen age, in a specific time of the year, […]
‘Polar Night’ by Mark Mahaney
Northern California based photographer Mark Mahaney has published his first book, Polar Night. The hemisphere tilts away from the sun during the winter months, communities near the North Pole experience a phenomenon known as the polar night: a period of uninterrupted darkness. In Utqiagvik, it lasts for approximately two months a year. When did the production […]
‘Nocturno’ by Monty Kaplan
Monty Kaplan is a photographer from Argentina. His work can be interpreted as a subjective anthropological exploration of the world. The series Nocturno can be seen as a blank canvas where Monty illuminates eclectically parts of his private universe. What do you think about the relation of peripatetic life and the action of photographing?This is […]
‘Sunny Days: A True Story’ by Kosmas Pavlidis
Kosmas Pavlidis, is a photographer, living and working in Thessaloniki, Greece. Also, he is co-founder and academic director of Stereosis school of contemporary photography. His latest series, Sunny Days: A True Story, is an exploration of an abandoned road in Northern Greece and its surroundings. The route that was once an integral part of his […]
Lewis Brillet Questions the Notion of Home in ‘Homebound’
Lewis Brillet is a 27 year-old freelance photographer from Lymington, a town in the South West of England, currently based in Paris. Also working as a part-time chef, his project Homebound explores the notion of home, what it represents to him and to his family. Can you give us some background information about how you […]
‘Dusker’ by Dylan Lewis
Dylan Lewis is a photographer and writer based in Richmond, Virginia. His work explores the tension between image-as-documentation and image-as-construction, as well as themes of memory, longing, fantasy, and solitude. His photographs attempt to disrupt the already fraught relationship between image, language, and narrative, and to create a space where new forms of meaning-making emerge. […]