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The Image of a Place
Three winters ago Anne Erhard’s father unexpectedly passed away on a journey far
away from home. A journey which, like all journeys, he was meant to return from.
His untimely death was distressing to his young daughter but at the same time it
reminded her how fragile human life is — we never know when or how we will meet
our demise. The only certainty is that eventually, we will.
> Death is a question of containment. For a long time, attempts at understanding
felt like trying to empty the ocean
Case 3181
Nieves Mingueza is a Spanish documentary photographer whose work bridges
the gap between the conceptual, personal and political. She often works as
a multimedia artist using images as well as text, collage, video and
installation. In her own words, Mingueza “explores and activates the
archives to address social and gender
Face Death
Zak Dimitrov turns to his home country of Bulgaria where obituaries are displayed everywhere — trees, houses, coffee shops, any random place one can imagine, but more often than not places that were once of significance for the deceased. The starting point for the photographer was the evidently blurred line between private and public. Grief is a very private experience, yet the families choose to display theirs out in the open.
Azerbajiani Stories
In Azerbaijani Stories the photographer Onur Tatar had created what he
calls composite portraits. These are the stories of ten people from
Azerbaijan combined with their portraits and images of places of
significance. As Tatar says, topography, or the arrangement of both natural
and artificial physical features of an area,
While I Was Sleeping
While I Was Sleeping is the third part of a trilogy of projects that came out of that shift (the other two being After the Fact and Endless Plain). These projects, by and large, use documentary techniques and the resulting images look like documentary photographs, but they are not intended to document an event.
A Rural Lifeline
Joanne Coates is a photographic storyteller from a working-class background.
Based between Yorkshire and Scotland, she depicts everyday stories with a
documentary approach. Apart from this, Coates has also done work in the
commercial sector with clients including the BBC, Vice, Financial Times, The
Guardian, and more.
Coronavirus: A Rural Lifeline in North Yorkshire shows how rural communities,
away from the hub of the big city, managed to cope with isolation when social
distancing became the n
Balaganza
A spotlight on the drag queens in the only gay bar in Lithuania. Forcedly hidden from the public eye in the post-Soviet country, these performances seem too deliberately shocking for the part of the society.
Uprooted
Where the food we buy in the supermarket comes from, how it is produced and how it can be?
Black Eyed Dog
The author opens up about his own struggles with Black Eyed Dog — A Photographic Healing Process. It was born out of a breakdown, a complete shutdown of his nervous system which made him find himself in a dark, gloomy place, one which he has never visited before.
The 2nd day. What it means to be there
Oleksandr Khomenko [https://www.facebook.com/oleksandr.khomenko] is a Kyiv-based
photographer who shows life in Ukraine as it is in independent media like
hromadske.ua [https://en.hromadske.ua/] and Ukrainer [https://ukrainer.net/en/].
For the second day, people with emergency bags and pets have been staying at the
Kyiv subway stations. The entrance is free.
Many people have found shelter at the ‘Politekhnichnyi Instytut’ metro station —
the hall is full. They are sitting on their suitcases,





