During her contemplative walks, Lynn Alleva Lilley (US) began to observe and photograph the many small details in the woods around Sligo Creek. The shimmering winter light, the tiny curling tendrils of a climber, the dry grasses in winter, the fresh green in spring. In her silent movement, she also met the deer, the birds, the cicada, the snake, the turtle and many more characters that inhabit this piece of land along the creek. Lilley manages to arouse what is not directly perceptible to the...

Debaltsevo, Where Are You? is a personal story about the fascinating and elusive search for your heritage. Karine Zenja Versluis (NL) started her own quest when she decided to explore her family history in the city of Debaltseve, Donbas, Ukraine. The place where her grandmother was born (Debaltsevo in her grandmother’s memories).

Everything went differently than expected, symbolizing the puzzling search for her own identity. A story told from different perspectives. We follow the history ...

Charlotte Dumas spent a few months in the spring of 2006 living in a tiny rooftop accommodation in Palermo, overlooking the city. The photographer became fascinated with a pack of stray dogs hanging around the park across the street, watching them lazing in the shade or listening to their barking at night. Over time, she became familiar with different packs of dogs, each with their own territory in the old parts of town. They roamed around the harbour and in the street markets, circling the b...

Nasser Road, Kampala is a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud. This publication draws attention to one of its main products: posters and calendars portraying politicians and well-known personalities as superheroes. The artworks are both decorative and political, telling the story of the common man’s struggle against the might of Western imperialism. Nasser Road is a collage of works by local designers and prints that Kristof Titeca (BE) collected since he be...

Mavis Mtandeki is een van de eerste zwarte Zuid-Afrikaanse vrouwelijke fotografen. Ze heeft gewerkt als huishoudster in de witte buitenwijken van Kaapstad. Jarenlang volgde Mtandeki een cursus media naast haar baan. Ze deed dit aan het politiek gemotiveerde Community Arts Project. Hier leerde Mtandeki fotograferen en begon het leven van de vrouwen vast te leggen rondom haar. Daarmee legde ze niet alleen de politieke transformatie vast van het land en de overgang van de vrouwenorganisaties ui...

Anne Geene and Arjan de Nooy combine visual tools from the science of birds with the specific characteristics of photography, thereby imparting a fresh look at both. Through their pseudoscientific approach, Geene and De Nooy explore the boundaries between the two disciplines, adding a layer that is usually absent in the representation and science of birds: humour. Their classifications form comical results through creative and associative thinking, and yet they use the scientific method to al...

With ‘Vital Mud’, Dutch artist Hiske Altena explores the theory that life on Earth once began in clay. In the 1980s, her uncle, now a retired geologist, found an unusual stone that rattled. Within this stone, he discovered organic-looking structures which he could not easily explain using existing geological theories. The so-called “clay hypothesis”, however, seemed to offer a better explanation. This is the basis on which Altena builds a collection of images intended to shift our per...