Clément Chapillon is a French photographer who lives between the south and Paris. After returning to the Gobelins school, he initiated his series Promise me a Land on the link to the land between Israelis and Palestinians which earned him several awards. From this experience, he rebounds with a more personal project on the Mediterranean […]
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‘The Hunter, the Woman & the Hut’ by Giannis Manolis
Giannis Manolis is a Greek photographer who lives and works in Thessaloniki. In his first long term project, he engages with life in the suburban Greek landscape and constructs a subtle sequence of portraits, signs of culture, interior spaces, that have two qualities; the documentary and the personal commentary. The later is latent in his […]
‘Vorest’ by Phillipa Klaiber
Phillipa Klaiber is a long-form documentary photographer. The central themes of her practice are the anthropology of landscape, memory, and the materiality and topography of land. Perhaps you can speak first about your early life to set the scene. Where did you grow up and how did that environment shape you?I grew up on the […]
‘A Small Guide to Homeownership’ by Alejandro Cartagena
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 […]
‘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 […]
‘Canyon Diary’ by Ekaterina Vasilyeva
Ekaterina Vasilyeva is a Russian photographer from St. Petersburg, working at the intersection of the genre, documentary and art photography. In most of her projects she explores the theme of a particular place (space, territory), it changes in the context of time and historical landmarks, environmental problems, interaction with human activity, personal relationships and myths of the place. How did you get to […]
‘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 […]
‘Floodzone’ by Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. Floodzone points out the consequences of climate change in the southern United States, without the intention of making a visualization of disaster. Keeping her style, Anastasia made a book that is as effective as a good political speech which is […]