Hardly Anyone Here Is Devoid Of Hope
At first, it is difficult to look at these pictures. They are touching and breathtaking, close and intimate. They show what most of us do not want to see. Walter Schels portrayed moribund people in a hospice, before and after they died. He approached a social taboo, while at the same time trying to overcome his own fear of death. The resulting black-and-white close-ups are captivating and hard to elude.
A New Life As Immigrants In Germany
Immigration and cultural identity are still much and controversially discussed topics in German society. However Maziar found a new and impressive way to approach this subject, creating images free of moralization and judgment. His staged photographs are telling stories of individuals with a migrant background – stories that are obscure and enigmatic, that have to be deciphered by the viewer but are never obvious.
Their Bodies In A Continuous Process Of Change
In her series of portraits Valeria Mitelman explores a very personal facet of female identity, presenting images that are part of the private documentation of expecting mothers. Placing them in front of a black background she puts the women and their bodies in the centre of the image and the contemplation. Strong and all-powerful, with clemency and gentleness in their gaze, they are looking down to the viewer.
Poetic Images To Record Her Autobiographical Journey
The lush green of a hilly landscape, the deep red blood of a killed chicken. The warmth of an affectionate embrace, the melancholia of a funeral. Colours and places that pass the eye like impressions on a road trip, like memories of a country once visited. For Irina Ruppert these are the reminiscences of her childhood; the sites, experiences and objects that are indestructibly kept in her mind.
At Times Witty, Touching, And Downright Shocking
Zoe Strauss’s America shines a light on the often unseen people and places in the United States today. Once in a great while, a photographer and their photographs break new ground and people sit right up and take notice. Zoe Strauss is such a photographer. The Philadelphia native who has brought us searing images of that city’s marginalized people and places on the fringe of society, has taken her no holds barred, up close and personal style of photography to the roads less traveled across America.
Fear And The Abandonment Of America’s Inner Cities
“Down These Mean Streets” examines fear and the abandonment of America’s inner cities. Photographing only at night with a large format view camera, I work in a set routine by walking between the airport and central business district of each city I photograph. My focus is the neighborhoods you wouldnt want to be in at night; the part of town you drive through – not to.
Life At The Waypoints Of America’s Truckers
“Hurry Up & Wait” is an ongoing collection of images exploring the obscure and anonymous life of America’s trucking culture. Driving for a year in our own tractor-trailer, we focus on the banal repetition and periods of isolation from constant movement on the road. These images are a byproduct of the world we entered and a glimpse of the places eighteen-wheelers are allowed. We are constantly faced with the same landscape regardless of location, from moments of obliged waiting in truck stops to backing into the docks of a warehouse. This is where we photograph.