Photo Essays
Photo essay: a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images.
We accept any theme, any subject. Although our preference is for stories that need to be told.
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Maps of Grief
As an artist, I feel called upon to explore the depths of human emotion and to find beauty even in life’s most difficult moments. In modern society, run on a positivity fuel, we are often encouraged to approach life with…
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False freedom
I photographed these fishes in a public aquarium, where they are admired by visitors. The fishes are captive, but they appear dignified. I say they appear because, unlike other animals, the fishes do not change their facial expression. But do…
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Tanned for the holidays: Christmas 2022
This year-end we are all a little bit dressed up for the holidays, so why not account for it? I wanted to collect and present here a few images, all taken in this month of December, relating to the slightly…
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Nostalgia: a life disrupted by war
The story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only the most precious and essential.
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Salt
When I was 7 years old, I suddenly decided to train my willpower by eating salt. I didn't know anything about the harms of salt. I started with very small portions and made a decision to end up when I'd…
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The hamster wheel, superfluous details
In hamster cages, there is often a swivel, a hollow wheel fixed on two pins into which the animal slips and starts to run, but obviously always stays in the same place.
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The Blue Fig
Global warming seems to have a more severe impact on certain countries than others because it affects the world climate. An immediate effect of global warming is the increased natural disasters like storm surges and floods, while sea-level rise is…
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Industrial Nostalgia
The photographs are from a visit to the UNESCO World Heritage ‘Zollverein’, an enormous former coal mining industrial site in Germany partially adapted into a museum and the rest reformed into a park. This series, inspired by Bernd & Hilla…
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The golden ape: freaks, aliens, animals, and other cheerful nightmares
A small review of objects, people, animals, both common and not, which, due to the context in which they are depicted, or their attitude, turn into alien figures, freaks, or strange creatures.Cheerful nightmares, though, with just a hint of irony…
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Street through the eye of a migraine patient
He is a migraine patient. Most of the time he is suffering from headache. But He has a keen interest in Street Photography and for this reason, to satisfy his thirst, recently he went to Bansberia which was one of…
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Who Is Aziz?
Aziz is 50-year-old fisherman who lives in a small coastal village in Morocco. He has a rare genetic disorder known in medical terms as being pseudo-hermaphrodite, the ‘third sex’. At birth, he was born with what appeared to be female…
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Possible covers
“Possible covers” is dedicated to different ways of hiding things. Sometimes this hiding could be an organic gesture, sometimes it is a necessity. But overall the layers contain another one inside. Even glance could be the way of hiding in…
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Undue juxtapositions
These days, and at my age, as well as being justifiably worried and uncertain about the future, indeed precisely because of this, one must also know how to have fun and play, as and as much as one can, with…
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12 August 2022, 11.50
The images are part of the “clouds” project, a project that I started in July 2019 and that I have developed in several series (images and videos). Clouds are a subject that has always fascinated me; they are something that…
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In Lusaka’s Matero Compound, Poverty Is the Main Barrier to Education
Although education is a basic human right, UNICEF estimates that in Zambia at least 800,000 children are out of school. The majority of them come from households living in extreme poverty, in slum-like settlements such as the Matero compound located…
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Real and metaphorical sunsets
Sunset even before being a particular moment of the day is a metaphor.In literature as in the figurative arts, it is associated with the decline and end (of the day, of light, of life), with the transition from light to…
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Women’s glances in … around
Wandering around the corners of Greece, I unconsciously captured with my lens mainly women’s looks. I’m not looking to find the “folklore“, the kerchief, but the look. This is what attracts me and I want to capture it with my…
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Komi Kino, the opportunity to join the art of cinema
Komi Kino is the only film distribution organization in the Republic of Komi in Syktyvkar (Russia), which enables people in the towns and most remote settlements to have the opportunity to join the art of cinema and see the old…
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Surreal squares
Slightly surreal atmospheres are the theme of this short collection of images of places or people, collected mainly in Rome, but not only, almost all of them during this year. A year, like the two that preceded it, that is…
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Illusions
The only sound I can hear in Zirou Lake is the rustling of the leaves falling into the water. An absolute stillness on the surface of the lake, not letting me realize where the material is and where the reflection,…
