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ELIZABETH ALDERLIESTEN Dordrecht (NL), 1972 Elizabeth Alderliesten is a Dutch artist and her main medium is analog photography. She currently lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. FRESH EYES Photo selected her as one of the 100 greatest emerging photography talents in Europe of 2020, she is featured on one of the four covers of the yearbook. She is also included in GUP New Photo Talent yearbook 202...

"Remember Who You Once Were" is not just a collection of images, it’s a reflection of a personal journey and a call to awaken something deeper within. It’s about rediscovering what was lost or forgotten, reconnecting with the raw, untamed parts of ourselves that society often pushes aside. This project was born out of a desire to explore what happens when we disconnect from who we truly are, and t...

In the place where I write, there are several images that make me reflect on my bond with photography. One of them shows a mound of earth, its outline resembling a mountain range darkened by clouds. Is it a mountain, or simply a pyramid of sand? Close by, I’ve placed a small branch from a forest in India: it still holds each of its leaves, now tinged with yellow. In Delhi, I photographed trees alo...

THE RIDGE is the name of a strip of forest that cuts through New Delhi from north to south, set on the hills of an ancient mountain, the Aravalli Range. Until the 19th century, it spanned rugged, rocky terrain, later reforested by the British with the aim of creating a colonial garden. To achieve this, they introduced a tree from Central America called Prosopis juliflora, which quickly spread acro...

Lydia Roberts b.1994 is an artist and photographer from England. The root of her interest lies within image making that remains unaffected by time, with the human form emerging as a reoccurring motif. She currently lives and works in the Occitanie region of France. https://www.lydia-roberts.com/ Text and voice: Lydia Roberts + info www.audiotecafotografica.com

My way of working is often erratic and spontaneous. I rarely see images as part of a series, and can shoot anything from a piece of orange peel, a shaggy street cat or a stranger’s nose in a shop window reflection within a few short moments of each other. In the early days of social media (I used Flickr and Tumblr) I remember being struck by the strange allure of seeing a grid of images lined up,...

Melinda Blauvelt studied photography at Yale with Walker Evans, was the first woman in Yale’s MFA photography program, went on to teach at Harvard, and has her pictures in major museums throughout the United States. Inspired by Evans’ 1930s photographs of rural America, she began a unique project in 1972, which she only recently unearthed and printed. Melinda decided to spend that summer photograp...

Inspired by Walker's photographs, especially the remarkable portraits he made in 1936 of sharecropper families in Hale County Alabama, 1 bought a used 4x5 Deardorff view camera and spent the summer of 1972 in Brantville, New Brunswick Canada, small Acadian fishing village. As a volunteer with the Quebec Labrador Foundation, I ran a day camp for the local children and lived with fisherman Ulysse Th...

I feel that I cannot photograph anything that I don’t feel related to, so I remain attentive to the type of vibration in which I can recognize myself. From the beginning, photography has been deeply connected with evasion, with that need to separate myself from the world I was in. Maybe that's why it has always been linked to movement, accompanying me in my escapes and functioning as an escape val...

As with many projects, “hearth” was born from a collection of photos that, at first glance, seemed unconnected, like a bunch of beads with different shapes and sizes that have been forgotten at the bottom of a plastic box. There is something playful about photographic projects that fascinates me. They are like putting together a necklace with different pieces, where the challenge is to find their...

One of my favourite quotes on family is from the flawed psychiatrist, R.D. Laing. He wrote that ‘The family may be imagined as a web, a flower, a tomb, a prison, a castle.’ You can take it further and deepen your analysis. If your family is a flower, what kind of flower is it? Is it a rose that pricks, a nettle that stings, or bindweed that twists and winds and throttles. I like that quote because...

“Reverting”reflects a profound material connection between the landscape and image-making,exploring environmental issues and the objectification of nature in Iceland. Created during my residency with the SIM program, this project merges photography and printmaking through material experimentation, seeking alternative ways to engage with the landscape. Issues like gentrification, waste, and environ...

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. ​Gonzalez Camacho's work presents a process-based approach interweaving photography and graphic printing methods. His practice is a result of intuitive exploration centered around themes such as materiality, immigration and the connectedness between landscape and self. https://www.frangc.com/ Text: Francisc...

In the Catholic church there are three classes of relics. The first class is body parts of a saint. The second class is things that belonged to a saint, objects they have used and surrounded themselves with. The third class is the object that touched the body of a saint. To create the third class relics, the small holes are drilled in the tombs of saints. The objects are lowered through the holes...

I grew up in between two radically different realities: a remote farm of my grandmother in rural Eastern Poland and Silesia – a heavy industry coal mining urban region in the West of the country. A clash between these two realities, the narrative of patriarchy and extractivism against the rural mythologies and sublime formed a place where I found myself at home and which continues to be a ground t...

These ten images, though they may seem fragmentary at first glance, tell a coherent story that reflects my photographic journey. The first is from New York, a city that has always fascinated me. During those days, my camera was my constant companion. I roamed the streets endlessly, capturing the life around me from sunset to sunrise, particularly enjoying the warm summer nights that offered sponta...

Was born in Moscow in 1980. Moved to New York in 2000. After changing many jobs and professions, got into photography in 2005. Went to the ICP, finished one-year course in documentary. Soon after the ICP moved to the Republic of Georgia where was introduced to the life of high mountain shepherds in Tusheti. Stayed with them for 5 years. All this resulted in hundreds of photographs and a dream to m...

The portraits I create are an attempt to glimpse into another person’s life, to lift the veil of mystery through human nature slightly. In my interaction with the models, a kind of symbiotic relationship forms, almost like a marriage, one based on mutual respect where we both contribute equally, 50/50. What emerges in the photograph is not just the subject but something deeper. It’s important to m...

Born in St. Petersburg in 1992. Painter/graphic artist, poetess (Samoucha) Since 2018, member of the Union of Artists "Solaris". Since 2018, member of the Union of Russian Photographers. Since 2019, he has been teaching a course on the topic “Analytical Artistic Composition.” In 2021, the first photo book KOLOKOL was published in Besard edition Paris. Nominated for 2022 Foam Paul Huf Award 2022 Am...

I was born and raised in the Mormon church in Salt Lake City, Utah, the church’s headquarters. With the church dominating the state’s population and politics, the cultural atmosphere shapes much of the identity of those who grow up in Utah. When you leave the church, you can feel like a pariah, cut off from the central structures of your community, and everything becomes cast in ambiguity. This se...

Jordan Utley is a photographer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The majority of his career has been focused on the moving image, resulting in many accolades and awards. Including the 2012 Nora Cup and a feature in the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art. In 2019, after several important lifestyle changes he redirected his focus to Documentary Photography in hopes of creating more meaningful work. In 2022, H...

I started this body of work, “Within the Mountain,” because I was unable to do otherwise when I was surrounded by so much unknown beauty. During a hiking trip in the Dolomites, a region of the Italian Alps, I was struck by the sight of countless cows grazing freely, unfettered by enclosures. This sparked my curiosity, and the way I can dive deeper into my curiosity and unravel it is with a camera....

Claudia Mann is a documentary photographer based in Florence. She holds a degree in Photography and Imaging from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. For her thesis, "Qui la Camorra ha perso," she documented the people living and working on assets confiscated from the Camorra in the province of Caserta. This experience and admiration for this community sparked her interest in telli...

When I started working as a still photographer on film sets, there was a lot more freedom than there is today, the set was an atmospheric place. There was something great and exciting about seeing a director on set and behind a camera. I would often have several weeks of free access to photograph everything behind the scenes. I was able to make candid photographs in a way that would be virtually i...

My life changed in the fall of 1963 when I started at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and discovered photography. The school was relatively new then (about five years old) and was more about art and craft. I remember the first day I went out on the streets with a camera at the Annenberg School. I walked the streets of downtown Philadelphia, in a rather bori...