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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‘Lea Valley’ by Felipe Restrepo
Felipe Restrepo is a photographer based in United Kingdom. Stretching down through east London to the River Thames, the River Lea and its valley compass a vast area with rich history of development and exploitation. In the following series, the photographer’s aim was to build an open-ended set of images to explore and interrogate the […]
‘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 […]
Dark Scenes in ‘Metronome’ by Gina Maragoudaki
Gina Maragoudaki is a greek photographer based in Athens. She studied piano and advanced theory of music. Metronome series is the result of her first seven years of photographing. She has constructed a bright black world where darkness spreads around her subject matter which intentionally doesn’t give the viewer much information about its origin. In […]
A Dive into the Enigmatic Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
Released in 1979, Stalker is at the end of the career of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a poetic and atypical story of a guide, a stalker, taking an artist and a scientist, to a forbidden area called the “Zone” to find the “Room”, which is said to grant the wishes of anyone who enters. […]
‘Saga’: A Story Both Ancient & Contemporary by Jessica Wolfelsperger
Jessica Wolfelsperger is a Swiss photographer, based in Berlin. She won the Swiss Photo Award 2016 and was finalist for the same award in 2017 with series Saga and Hide & Seek. Saga is her new body of work produced during an artist residency of the Verzasca FOTO Festival. It is an enigmatic yet carefully told […]
Introspective Journey to the ‘South’ of Aaron Canipe
Aaron Canipe is a 27-year-old photographer, designer, and bookmaker based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He earns a BFA in Photography and an MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts, and cofounded the photobook publisher Empty Stretch in 2010. Born and raised in Hickory, NC, his poetic series evoke loss, innocence, and faith within the backdrop of the […]
Ning Kai & Sabrina Scarpa Break the Boundaries Between Them
Photographic duo Ning Kai (1987, China) and Sabrina Scarpa (1991, Netherlands) are working as a freelance photography duo, after they have been living together in Zhengzhou, China, for four years. With their series The Land Between Us, they wish to surround themselves by places that bring out the core of humanity, to aim for a state of being […]