Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. A Small Guide to Homeownership, published by the Velvet Cell is an amalgamation of 15 years of work, starting with Fragmented Cities series made […]
From Moving Shots to Stills in ‘Ida’
I’ve been thinking about this one for a while, you might believe that is a photo series here, but those shots are indeed stills from the movie Ida! Director Pawel Pawlikowski gives us a portrait of post-war Poland through the story of Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), a young Polish girl who lives in a convent. An […]
‘After the Fact’ by Tony Fouhse
Tony Fouhse is an Ottawa-based photographer whose work includes elements of anthropology, sociology, portraiture, document and art. Most recently his projects have moved towards photo sequences that stress the narrative aspects of photography. The people, places and things he depicts in this new work are real, in the sense that they existed in front of […]
‘F20.5’ by Glorija Lizde
Glorija Lizde was born in Split, Croatia. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Video at the Academy of Arts Split and a Master’s degree in Photography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Her photographic work revolves around themes of family, memory and identity. Her practice relies on research work, archives […]
‘Red Willow’ by Dimitris Lambridis
Dimitris Lambridis was born in Athens, Greece. He has studied photography at the NewYork Film Academy and Film Production at the University for The Creative Arts, in Farnham, UK. He works as a photographer and cinematographer between London and Athens, while creating personal projects in the medium of photography. These projects focus mostly on stories […]
‘You are Masters of the Fish and Birds and All the Animals’ by Shane Rocheleau
Shane Rocheleau was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He received a BA in Psychology and English from St. Michael’s College in Vermont, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). His first monograph, You Are Masters Of The Fish And Birds And […]
‘The Model Family’ by Tealia Ellis Ritter
Tealia Ellis Ritter lives and works in rural Connecticut. Ellis Ritter’s work contends with the intersecting roles of the photograph as personal document, familial marker of time and object with physical surface. Her interest lies in both physical and emotional exploration of the changing nature of identity and intimacy over time. She is presently engaged […]
‘Snow Bed’ by Georgia Ponirakou
When people talk about depression and stressful events in their lives, there should be someone listening. Sometimes the burden of such feelings is so intense and unbearable that some people just can’t move on. They lie still in a snow bed they made for themselves, ready to disappear and vanish in darkness, in a lifeless […]