Cristobal Ascencio

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CRISTOBAL ASCENCIO  Las Flores Mueren Dos Veces   websiteinstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info   The work of the Mexican artist Cristóbal Ascencio explores a parent-child relationship filled with loss, silence, death and reconciliation.Ascencio’s father died when he was 15, but he was not told that it was suicide until he was 30. It was then […]

Liza Ambrossio

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LIZA AMBROSSIO The witch stage   websiteInstagram   Opening: 17.06.2022“THE WITCH STAGE – LA ETAPA BRUJA”Curated by Diana CuellarNadie Nunca Nada NoMadrid, Spain “In my memories, I know that I saw on TV the faces of a group of hysterical women. I was still in elementary school. They were mothers from somewhere in northern Mexico. […]

Alice Marcelino

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ALICE MARCELINO Kindumba   websiteInstagram Kindumba means my hair in Kimbundo, one of the Bantu languages spoken in the north of Angola.The project highlights and celebrates the diversity and beauty of black hair. It is a conversation about the relation of people of African ancestry with their hair, as a medium of “meaning” – the […]

Louise Long

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LOUISE LONG The Understory website Instagram The Understory is the ecological classification for the lowest-most layer of undergrowth on the rainforest floor. Where animal and plant life abounds, but sunlight is scarcest. An ongoing series developed during a period of five years, The Understory uncovers an extinct sugar plantation in the rainforest of St Lucia. […]

Franziska Ostermann

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Franziska Ostermann Selfobservation websiteInstagram What do the photographic self-portraits that wake in the networks as avatars do while we surf or sleep?Photographic splinters of views of our selfs represent our identity in a place that we ourselves cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its own representation. Photography can act as a mediator […]

Julie Scheurweghs

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JULIE SCHEURWEGHS Woman as parts websiteInstagram The female gaze is somewhat of a recurring subject in Scheurweghs her work. It’s a term used to counter ‘the male gaze’ that was coined by film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975. The male gaze in both film and photography is always looking, while the female body is always being looked […]

Makis Makris

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MAKIS MAKRIS Panta Rhei websiteInstagram This is an allegorical visual narrative, inspired by the well-known phrase of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Everything flows and everything in the Universe is indeed continually on the move. Everything changes, nothing stays the same, there is no absolute truth, the only reality is perennial movement. Makis Makris is […]

Wei Wei

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WEI WEI Dizzy websiteInstagram This set of photos was inspired by a virtual game. Is the way we experience games also a reflection of real life?Nowadays, virtual games are becoming more and more real, and people are constantly pursuing perfect picture quality and rich sensory experience. The line between simulation and reality becomes blurred. That’s […]

Diego Moreno

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DIEGO MORENO Melancholy   websiteInstagram Melancholy is a graphic intervention project on my personal archive, through acrylic paint, oil, or graphite, reflecting on the nostalgia of love breakups. Through archival images of couples that I have collected over the years, including my family’s, I revisit the complexity of relationships, where drama, pain, desire, and the […]

Lorena Florio

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LORENA FLORIO Lacerazioni   Instagram In an attempt to create representations of reality without spatial-temporal constraints, my visual research often begins with simple elements that are subjected to various processes, both physical and digital. Through these levels of transformation of the photographed subject, I try to dig deep while considering what is really hiding behind […]

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