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Kenzy Lou
Kiliii Yuyan
Chuktoka
Kiliii Yuyan
At the edges of the Bering Sea and Russia’s Arctic coastline lies one of the wildest regions on earth. In winter, the land is indistinguishable from the ocean, a vast white ice sheet extending into infinity. In summer, the tundra unveils itself in shades of moss and the coastlines are packed with polar bears and walrus.
Chukotka. The place where human destiny is carved by the cold.
This enormous and seemingly remote Arctic land, is home to 50,000 people– half Indigenous Siberians and half ethnic Russians.
I find myself here, where it is at once familiar and foreign. The bones of musk oxen age under traditional hunting boats and steel containers. As a longtime Arctic visitor, this is a land that makes sense to me. Except when it doesn’t. The history of the past century lurks.
The aged infrastructure of the former Soviet Union is everywhere. Concrete-block apartments and empty factory buildings make up the bulk of architecture. After the fall of the USSR, large industries vanished overnight, including reindeer meat and fur, which heavily impacted the livelihoods of Chukchi and other indigenous peoples.
From the aerial view, fates of the people seem dominated by the forces of mining and oil. Climate change marks the era with vanishing sea ice. To outsiders, the challenges of living in Chukotka seem insurmountable. But I find myself comforted after enough time on the ground. Snorting walrus and carpets of blueberries remind me that the mantra of the Arctic applies here. The resilient will endure.
Kimberly Butler
Emma Hill
Andree Ljutica
I, AMERICA, I, EUROPE
Andree Ljutica
Born to an immigrant father from Eastern Europe and an American mother from the Midwest, the abundant cultural tension suffused in my upbringing engendered a curiosity in the unique visual sensibility endemic to "place." With the goal to remain as objective and impartial as possible in my documentation of these places I knew (or thought I knew) so well, I ended up becoming enmeshed in the meanderings of daily life in both coastal Montenegro and rural New York, visiting family members in hospitals leftover from socialist-era Yugoslavia and taking unexpected portraits of my father (see hand with cigarette photo). In New York, I insinuated myself into the meanderings of formerly incarcerated individuals, men struggling with addiction, angry dogs, and, hopeful school teachers. Altogether, the series observes place in a way that contextualizes what's familiar and compiles an important and personal amalgam of identity and self-discovery. In addition, final analysis is a library of images that presents a shared sterility, strangeness and human capacity among these two places.
Andree Ljutica
The Wrestlers Project
Andree Ljutica
Suspended between theatrical arts and combat fighting, the various worlds of independent professional wrestling and death match fighting are ripe with subtle contrasts and unexpected paradoxical elements related to gender and masculinity.
This series, THE WRESTLERS PROJECT, intends to highlight these contrasts by presenting a select group of wrestlers from around the country in a high-glamour, theatrical environment, effectively exposing the inherent tension between the sport’s masculine aggression and it’s performative nature.
Stefania Rosini
LA BEHIND DOORS
Stefania Rosini
The project is called “LA BEHIND THE DOOR”. Its a collection of portraits (all shot with a ROLLEIFLEX using Kodak TriX 400 ISO in B/W) of people behind doors (windows mainly) during this pandemic. It's a beautiful art piece I am very proud of, and hopefully with the price I could turn it on a photo book to share with the world.
It’s possible that one day historians will define, perhaps trivially, our present time as a “transitional period”, from a secure and stable past (although the short memory of our generation has allowed for some grave mistakes to be repeated) to a future undefinable - not because of the lack of opportunities, but for the lack of ideas, willingness and hope.
This collection of portraits is, in fact, the result of this belief...
Driely S.
Matt Schwerin
Sarah Anne Ward
Serge Kass
Hannah Gaber
Nina Lavoy
Pri-Marital
Nina Lavoy
This picture reminds me of the first man and woman, the biblical Adam and Eve, but a wink to the genetic fist man and woman, the progenitors of all mankind coming out of Africa.
The tub signifies water from which all life springs - the Primordial Soup from which the universe was born.
Marital as in the conjoining of man and woman creating life, the contractual relationship of polarities, the Yin and Yang.
In this current social, racial, and political awakening, it also represents rebirth of Black unity, celebrating Black relationships, and Black family.
Zoltan Gerliczki
“Celestial bodies”
Zoltan Gerliczki
“Celestial bodies”
The work presents a digital collage combining Michelangelo’s The Last Judgement with a series of over 350 pictures of the artist’s body. Every character, male or female, that was painted by Michelangelo is now replaced by one naked man, referencing both the nudity that was present in the original version of Michelangelo’s masterpiece as well as offering an overt reference to the rumours surrounding Michelangelo’s own sexuality.
As Michelangelo is known for his studies of anatomy, this work provides a contemporary take on this subject. Aside from the general anatomical exploration of the human form, there is also a personal search of the artist’s awareness of his own body’s transformation over the course of a matter of years - the photos in the work were taken over a period of more than a decade.
11 pieces on clouds
The individual pieces represent the various stories that are present in The Last Judgement. Here, the direct reference to the painting is taken away, to only focus on the individual stories taken from the canticas Paradiso, Inferno and Purgatorio of Dante’s Divina Comedia. By only using the sky as background, there is no judgement to be passed: all stories, from hell, purgatory or paradise, are seemingly played out in heaven.
Dan Lyon
Life Goes On
Dan Lyon
After the death of my grandfather and an injury sustained by my grandmother, their daughter, Ann, has taken on the solemn task of cleaning out and rearranging the family home. Living at the house, my mother spends her days throwing out and compartmentalizing the pieces of our family’s history.
One weekend, my mom rearranged an enclosed porch that my grandfather used to read and listen to jazz in. She felt the need to make the house her own. "Life goes on and things change 'cause they're supposed to," she said about moving things around, "but change is good, right?"
Amaren Colosi
Amaren Colosi
Dan Lyon
Sweet Ground
Dan Lyon
After spending our first months of the pandemic in Syracuse, New York, my partner Emily and I made our way to her family farm outside of Schaller, Iowa. These photographs are a visual diary of our time in relative paradise to our small apartment: amongst her hard-working family, friends and the lush green rows of corn and beans that stretch as far as your eyes can see.
Angelica Pasquali
Blind To Plastic
Angelica Pasquali
A portrait series inspired from today’s plastic pollution. In this series, dramatic lighting highlights models in contorted poses with blindfolds made of bubble wrap. Photographer, Angelica Pasquali, conveys a sense of both protected ignorance and frustration in “Blind To Plastic”. She hopes this series not only captures the attention of art-lovers, but brings a call to action to remove our protected-layer of ignorance to our climate crisis and plastic pollution.
During the process of this series, Angelica first started with plastic wrap for the blindfolds but morally struggled using plastic even for the sake of art. After careful consideration, Ms.Pasquali decided to use bubble wrap as it did not have to be thrown away after its usage in the series. The bubble wrap also is significant as bubble wrap is used to protect fragile objects. In this case, it protects our eyes from the fragile climate conditions right in front of us.
Whether the lifestyle changes are big or small, it's time we stare this climate emergency in the face and take action.
Craig Schwanfelder
Half Court - Full Court
Craig Schwanfelder
Basketball hoops can be found everywhere and are accessible to people from all walks of life. Half Court - Full Court is created using in-camera multiple exposure photography and explores the sport’s surrounding environment by providing an otherwise impossible view of both basketball hoops simultaneously. Since 2014 I have photographed all types of courts, including ones at neighborhood parks, community recreation centers, grass courts, and at schools. This ongoing project has resulted in a portfolio of images that highlight the remarkable diversity of settings for a game that unifies people worldwide.
Michael Sherer
Eddie Velasquez
A Slender Woman With Grace and Elegance
Eddie Velasquez
Aisha Awadallah was very graceful and stylish in our photo shoot. The concept of this photo session was to have a dark background with the profoto lights lighting the model. Aisha had posed with simplicity and elegance as her images pops out of the dark. Her beauty comes out to be very charming.
Markku Lahdesmaki
Markku...Polo
Markku Lahdesmaki
Polo is the sport of kings.
Here in the Coachella valley -it belongs to everyone, to the Eldorado and Empire clubs, to young and old, to women and men, to the green grass and vast sky. And to a photographer’s curiosity.
I was the man without the horse, but this close group was happy to share their sport and passion with me. I spent many days watching, and shooting, finding simple moments in the action and across sprawling fields. I was allowed the freedom to wander through the stables where I was met with friendly waves and willing subjects. I made photographs and some friends.
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