The Elegance of Your Absences
by Gilles Mercier
“I lived for a long time under the unmoving gaze of a few photographs discreetly placed on my father’s desk. In those images, my grandfather Pierre appeared like a secret hero, frozen in an aura of mystery, closer to a myth than a man of flesh. All I knew of him were the fragments of […]
Nevermind if I’m blind
by Matteo Giardiello
After the end of a meaningful relationship, I have decided to come back to my home country. That place, that had been raising me for more than twenty years, and that I had always considered a safe haven seemed transformed and very hard to deal with. In an attempt of re-appropriation, I choose to investigate […]
Treasure Trove
by Natasha Lozinskaya
Shortlisted Artist for the Charta Award 2025 Vyatsky Krai (historical name of Kirov region) is the average region of Russia, a Russian hinterland where the territorial and linguistic context has not changed for centuries. The locals, remaining in the gap between past and future, are stuck in «timelessness» and, like heroes of Russian folk tales, […]
Nouera
by Alessandro Mazzola
Many people wish to know where the Enclave of Nouera is, few swear they have been there, many other just dream about it.The Enclave of Nouera was found by discovering some of the enclaves resting on the European soil. An enclave is a territory completely enclosed within the borders of a state other than the […]
Ashes
by Ilaria Demo De lorenzi
Ashes is Ilaria Demo De Lorenzi’s ongoing personal project, which stems from an anthropological research on the concept of “witch” meant as founding myth of women’s freedom from the constraints of patriarchal society. The author started exploring this term from its deeply sexist, divisive historical roots, that lead to the execution of countless innocent women. […]
500mt Around Me
by Chiara Pavolucci
The project 500mt around me was born from my explorations of the area surrounding the house where I’ve been living for a few years, near the natural reserve of the Savio River and on the outskirts of Cesena, a typical Italian provincial town. Through the practice of walking—as a performative mode of personal reappropriation of […]
Love me
by Chiara Paderi
In Love me I tell and reconstruct, through images, a trauma suffered during childhood: abuse. I retrace a compromised and interrupted period, using a visual language that is sometimes violent, metaphorical and ironic.In “Love me” the viewer comes into contact with the story in an intimate and profound way, he has the opportunity to understand […]
Road to Black
by Giulia Madiai
What happens when the system of investigations and information begins to falter, and unproven conspiracies and theories transform into a genuine leads? Throughout history, the archetype of the Devil and the phenomenon of Satanism have been used as tools to explain events that have nothing to do with facts, exploiting mankind’s ancestral and atavistic fear […]
The Elephant’s Foot
by Edward Nurton
The Elephant’s Foot is a photographic and research project by photographer Edward Nurton that, through adopting the strategies of both fiction and documentary genres, explores the expanded boundaries of real nuclear accidents.Nurton delved into the study of the history of nuclear incidents since WW2 and, with a particular pillar of investigation on recent accidents (namely […]
Bile
by Giorgia de Bortoli
“Bile” is an ongoing project about my relationship with addiction to hard drugs in a specific time in my life.The series of images I try to present fit into a messy and disorienting narrative that communicates mostly on a perceptive level. It aims to be neither a condemnation nor an exaltation of them but a […]