Andrés Mario was born into two Cuban families and grew up in Miami as a first generation Cuban-American. The death of his mother helped him galvanized his need to know more about himself and what he is capable of expressing. After graduating, Andrés moved to New Mexico. Since living in the desert, his obsession with […]
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‘Now Is Not The Right Time’ by Peter Pflügler
Peter Pflügler (AT) is an Austrian visual storyteller based in the Netherlands. His work centres around the dynamics of secrets, intergenerational trauma and silence. With the help of photography, video and text, he aims to resurrect the unseen, the unknown and the hidden. In the end, he does not believe in secrets. Peter has recently […]
Hannah Altman’s photographs are a link on a chain of Jewish cultural memory
Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist from New Jersey and based in Boston. Her photographs portray lineage, folklore, memory, and narrative. How does a new project start for you? Do you prefer to take notes by doing research around the subjects you are interested in or do you prefer to shoot first, taking visual notes […]
‘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 […]
‘Purple is Black Blooming’ by Aaron Chapman
Aaron Chapman is an artist and writer based on the Gold Coast, Australia working across a range of mediums including photography, sculpture and public art. Chapman’s work is motivated by themes of home and memory, and in particular, childhood. When did you realize the series? Did it come naturally as you were reviewing-sequencing your photographs […]
‘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 […]
‘Abendlied’ by Birthe Piontek
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 […]
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 […]