Through subjects which are hard, frequently morbid and often far from our everyday concerns, these photographers are taking on the primary role of the artist. They are revealing our deepest contradictions and expressing their dreams and the nightmares which we prefer to forget.
The photographers of this volume report the world as they have researched, investigated, explored, experienced and discovered it, and decided to tell us about.
Recently I started going through my old negatives and made some wonderful reconnections with stories I have not seen for twenty-five years. It is like being reacquainted with old friends.
The observation of self and of one’s own being as a first step towards the observation of the world and the understanding of it. The transit, as a form of concrete existence of society and of individuals which allows (or forces) the human species to adapt to its own new activities and perceptions.
If you hear the story of Fraele Valley, a couple of thoughts might come to your mind when you walk around its lakes. Within ‘clock’s reach’, things weren’t the same. An entire village of peasants, shepherds, merchants sank into the artificial turquoise when the dams were erected.
The destruction of our environment – albeit caused by natural disasters – involves parties (communities, governments or industrial players) and is often the result of a multiplicity of factors: human negligence, inadequate planning, criminal abuse of our resources, natural causes.
During the past decade, millions of Mexican and Central American migrants have left their homes and families and faced death on the journey to the United States.
Mastering this split image is the role which photographers of African origin have assigned themselves, sometimes against their better judgement, in order to avoid misunderstandings.
A closer look of Alun-Alun Bandung. A very attractive place, seeking for everyone's attention, who just experienced hardships.
Nature never ceases to show it's existence. It's about the Glow of Gloom. The Scream on Silent
Wonderland is the world of how you see it and what you want in it. It's full of surprises and nothing is ever as it seems.
Another Love is a visual and intimate representation of wanting to be never separated. It is about change and adapting to it after something new.
This is an unpublished work as of now -a part of my ongoing photo book project whose visualization began long back in 2014.
