Wim Wenders was born in August 14, 1945 in Dusseldorf, Germany. He studied in the Film School of Munich after he had abandoned his studies in Medicine and Philosophy. Between 1968 and 1971 he wrote film reviews and in 1970 he made his first full length feature film, called Summer in the City. In Wenders’ […]
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‘Diagnosed with Phantom Pain’ by Julia Albrecht
Julia Albrecht is a German born fine art photographer whose work is based on a linking examination of sociological and gender-scientific research as well as an intensive preoccupation with personal experiences. It constantly draws from a profound curiosity for humanitarian issues and cultural phenomenons. Could you speak first about your early life to set the […]
‘För’ by Agnieszka Sosnowska
Agnieszka Sosnowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. The word ‘För’, which stands for the title of her recent series, is an Icelandic feminine noun that means journey, the act of traveling from one place to another, to be moving or moved. It also refers to the route along which something travels […]
‘Concrete Doesn’t Burn’ by Bertrand Cavalier
Bertrand Cavalier explores the interactions between people and their environment. Exploiting photography’s ability to penetrate the tissue that binds individuals together and embeds them into their surroundings, he creates poetic renditions of singular moments, rather than objective documents of social phenomena. Cavalier’s images reveal how the socio-political order informs everyday life through architecture and the […]
The Missing Eye” by Mattia Parodi & Piergiorgio Sorgetti
Recent studies published by the Cognitive Brain Research have shown, using instruments that measure dream activity, that blind people since birth dream in images. Several hypotheses suggest that these representations are a result of the collaboration between the activity of the visual cortex and the activity of other sensory organs, however it isn’t excluded that […]
‘Like’ by Ryan Debolski
Ryan Debolski is a Detroit-based photographer, who studied photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His recent project, ‘Like’, published by Gnomic Book, explores the physical and digital relationships of the migrant workers who build the infrastructure of Oman, a rapidly modernizing country rich in oil and natural gas. What were the key elements to your photographic education? […]
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 […]
‘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 […]