Brooklyn-based animator Mackenzie Cauley transforms Van Gogh’s “The Night Cafe” into a virtual reality
USA – Not that Vincent Van Gogh’s work needs animation, but animator Mackenzie Cauley brought Gogh’s work to life. Cauley added a dimension to Gogh’s “Le café de nuit” (The Night Café) (1888) by taking the viewer inside Gogh’s painting. The flat canvas transforms into a café brimming with life. Gogh is found sitting on […]
Manik Katyal on Halil Koyutork’s “I am Playing Ping Pong Now” – Photography, Sexuality, Society
Turkey – “”I fell into a state of mental and psychological distress after my divorce. That triggered me in a way to start this project. I was questioning my youth, the culture I came from, my gender, sexuality, and relationships. Through my pictures I tried confront these matters, and to reflect on the state I […]
Jiehao Su: “Borderland” – Reconstructing Personal Memories
China – Borderland is a project deeply rooted in my personal history. I spent my early twenties living a nomadic life in China, trying to escape from the sorrow of my mother’s sudden death when I was 18. After years of wandering, I began work on Borderland in 2012 as a way to look inward […]
Joao Pina: “Condor” – Exposing Secret Military Conspiracy by Six Latin American Countries
Portugal – In 2005, I was finishing my first book – Por Teu Livre Pensamento (“For your Free Thinking”) – where I had portrayed 25 Portuguese former political prisoners, when I heard about the existence of Operation Condor for the first time. Operation Condor was a secret plan that, at the height of the Cold […]
Celebrating Emerging Greek Photography: Nikolas Ventourakis – ‘Defining Cyprus’s Borderlands’
Greece – ‘Defining Lines – Borderlands’ is a project focused on the areas in and around the Western Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. The Area, which is one of the two British Sovereign Territories created in 1960, is autonomous and has as head of the state the British Monarch. There […]
Yaakov Israel: “The Quest for the Man on The White Donkey” – Powerful Photos of Israel/Palestine
Israel – As per the Orthodox Jewish tradition, the Messiah (the Prophet) will arrive riding on a white donkey. A few years ago, as I was photographing near the Dead Sea, a Palestinian man rode past me on his white donkey and I took a picture of him. It was after having developed this plate […]
Australian Lecturer Leon Ewing suggests high school students to use ‘educational marijuana’ to fuel creativity
Australia – “Educational Marijuana”, a possibility or not? An Australian museum, Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), defended a multimedia artist, Leon Ewing’s proposal to introduce “educational […]
Andy Rocchelli: “Russian Interiors” – Intimate Portrait of Women in their Private Spaces
Italy – Andy started to travel to Russia in 2010; there he spent a considerable amount of time working asa freelance photographer. During this time he covered several stories in different places.The book Russian Interiors, however, sees the light as side job to cover his expenses while staying in Moscow; he challenged local professional competitors, […]
Tsohil Bhatia: Deconstructing the Site with Performance Art
India – An emerging artist with a strong emphasis on performative narration and form, Tsohil Bhatia’s art is for him a way of life – from his photo series to the performance pieces to the individual images he posts on his blog regularly, and even to the images he shares on his personal social media, […]
Clara Vannucci: Bail Bond – Bondsmen, Defendants and Bounty Hunters
USA – ‘Bail Bond’ by Italian photographer Clara Vannucci is a visual tale set in contemporary New York. By weaving together stories of bondsmen, defendants and bounty hunters, the reportage sheds light on an unexplored edge of law and order in the US, a place where crime and security collide and amalgamate, leaving no room […]
Awoiska van der Molen: “Sequester” – Photographic Meditation of Volcanic Landscape in Canary Islands
Netherlands – I stay in places, locations far from the outside world. Being in this world -and the long time spent there in solitude- brings me in a kind of ‘zero state of being’. My photos originate in this space where intuition wins from thoughts and words, I take the camera out of my bag […]
Yoon Ji Seon: “Rag Face” – Deploying Photography with a Sewing Machine
Korea – Featured in Yoon Ji Seon‘s inaugural exhibition will be pieces from her ongoing series, Rag Face, made by intricately stitching photographs with a sewing machine. The artist begins each work by photographing herself making an exaggerated facial expression. She then sews over the resulting print in multiple layers of colorful thread, building texture […]