photographic essays
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” By Mathieu Chaze My boys, One morning, walking behind you through the misty sandy lanes of our local woods, I had a realisation. I suddenly, for the first time in my life, remembered being your age and my dad mine … Days fast turning into months and into years. How much longer …
Layered Beauty By Tanja Houwerzijl Tanja evolved her visual style into analogue collage making. Her collages consist mostly of vintage Japanese materials, i.e. handmade paper, old photographs, schoolbooks and magazines. She collects from antique markets, bookstores and online sellers in Japan. Tanja likes to deconstruct materials and then cut or tear apart before layering and gluing …
Lanzarote By Willy Vecchiato Lanzarote is a hymn to the founding elements of the earth, the raison d’être of the senses on which the fragile human intentions rest. Like ancient wills carved on stone. Lanzarote is an epistème and together it traces the same duration of the primordial substance. Life, in which sacred and profane …
KILOMBO By María Daniel Balcázar Kilombo is a tribute to the resilience and vitality of the African legacy in Brazil. During the Atlantic slave trade, approximately 4.8 million people from various regions of Africa were forcefully transported to Brazil, bringing with them only their memories. Through their oral history, in the remembrance of their …
Summer Holiday Dreams By Daniel Hinks China’s northeastern province of Shandong (A.K.A Friendly Shandong) is home to a little city called Rizhao. Its English translation is the sunshine city, and the locals are nicknamed “the sun shiners,” dating back thousands of years to the Dong Yi people during the Xia and Shang dynasties (2070-1046 BC) …
A Day in the Life of an Imam By Lori Hawkins This is a story of a Muslim community in Brooklyn that was ensuring the Muslim funeral rites were performed – washing, shrouding, prayer and burial during the Coronavirus Pandemic. During the height of the pandemic, Imam Ahmed Ali worked tirelessly burying the dead. It …
Raíces, ‘El pla de grau’ By Toni Privat text by Clara Privat The photo project is taken by my dad Toni Privat. This is the story of my grandfather Salvador Privat “avi” and my father Toni Privat. All the photos of this project called: Agriculture. Roots (Pla de Grau) were taken by Toni Privat during the last and …
La casa que sangra (The house that bleeds) By Yael Martinez It was getting dark when I got the call. Luz, my wife, was telling me that they had killed her brother Beto. She was uncontrollable — I had never heard her speak like that. Her voice was shaking, breaking. I could not sleep all night. …
Donbass Stories By Giorgio Bianchi Several tens of thousands of dead and wounded, over a million refugees. The civil war in Donbass has literally erased entire cities and villages from the map, staining with blood the soil of the European continent for the first time in the twenty-first century. These are two chapters – Alina …
Springtime Nightmare By Joel Pulliam I moved to Tokyo with my family in 2018. For nearly two years, life was happy. Then, without warning, my young daughter died. Can art begin to convey a father’s grief? Over three hundred years ago, the haiku poet Raizan Konishi wrote after the loss of his own child: I …
