The Gay Space Agency
by Mackenzie Calle
From 1959 to 1972, NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut candidates were required to take two heterosexuality tests. In 1994, NASA asked flight surgeon Dr. Patricia Santy “to include homosexuality as a psychiatrically disqualifying condition” for astronauts. The psychiatric team protested, but NASA insisted. A 2022 study found that LGBTQ+ astronauts “perceived that being out […]
FUI-42
by Daniel Martínez
By the end of the 19th century, Alphonse Forel — a Swiss scientist living by the lake Léman — designed a colour scale to assess biochemical properties of the water. Known as the Forel-Ule Index, today it is used to analyze worldwide seas, lakes, and oceans, monitoring their condition in times of environmental change. Following […]
Other Joys
by Alice Poyzer
Other Joys is an ongoing body of work that highlights my special interests as someone on the spectrum, whilst also discussing the difficulties I face as an autistic woman. The process of making these photographs provides me with a safe space to unmask — something that I cannot always access in day to day life. […]
Of Fire, Far Shining
by J.A Young
My artistic practice has developed alongside a research practice in which the subjects I explore are those that come across my path by means of synchronicity. Over the years, this intuitive research has led me to explore how humans as a species have abused our technological innovations, from the cultivation of fire to the advent […]
Atlantis
by Oriane Thomasson
The Atlantis project is conceived as a continuation of Paradis, my previous project published by The Eriskay Connection. Like Paradis, Atlantis takes the form of a collection of images drawn from various sources, all of which are connected to the legend of Atlantis. The myth of Atlantis, as told by Plato in the Timaeus and […]
Vive la résistance
by Marta Bogdańska
This project can be seen this year at Fotofestiwal, which takes place from June 19 to June 28 in Łódź, Poland. The full program is available here. My long-term archive-based audio-visual project Vive la résistance! continues and further develops the artistic research from my previous work SHIFTERS, which reflected on animals in wars and espionage. […]
Mind of Winter
by Karolina Gembara
This project can be seen this year at Fotofestiwal, which takes place from June 19 to June 28 in Łódź, Poland. The full program is available here. Mind of Winter is a photobook project about the forced displacements that redrew Central and Eastern Europe after 1945. That year, at Potsdam, the Western Allies and the […]
Vestiges of the Future
by Frédéric D. Oberland
This project can be seen this year at Fotografia Europea, which takes place from April 30 to June 14 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The full program is available here. With Vestiges of the Future – Vestiges du Futur, Frédéric D. Oberland presents a site-specific installation that interrogates how images of the past haunt both our present […]
Giambellino
by Mattia Zoppellaro
Besides being one of Milan’s most ethnically diverse areas, GIAMBELLINO is also one of the historic working-class neighborhoods. Maintaining this profile, over the years it has remained one of the last bastions of Milan’s working-class community. Several historic figures in the pop-criminal-TV scene have passed through here: Giorgio Gaber, Renato Vallanzasca, Diego Abatantuono, Gino Bramieri, […]
Automated Refusal
by Salvatore Vitale
This project can be seen this year at Fotografia Europea, which takes place from April 30 to June 14 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The full program is available here. Automated Refusal is part of Death by GPS, a long-term project where Salvatore Vitale examines how automation technologies are reshaping labour and revealing the contradictions of digital […]