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[1/12] Stillness of the Mountains – Alice Pancheri Link below for more ⬇ https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXPaaqgj4-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4crvvasuyan9

[1/12] Suicidal Birds – Sebastian Rogowski Link below for more ⤵ https://www.instagram.com/p/BqFSbXaAaN8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1588g0dirqia3

[10/12] ⠀ "About” Series — Oslo Volume Francesco Iafigliola [@mr_iaf] Click the link below for more ⤵ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp99rSngQca/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11lgdprawskpl

[8/12] ⠀ ”About” Series — Oslo Volume Francesco Iafigliola ⠀ Full series available here ⤵ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp7YhRKgmo5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q4yyw1nkdkh6

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[1/12] ⠀ ”About” Series — Oslo Volume Francesco Iafigliola ⠀ Click for more ⤵ https://www.instagram.com/p/BpzN-0_AJ99/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7t1bkay9by8w

Another Sicily / Postcards from Nowhere – Mauro Fontana

Any place is a landscape. The European Landscape Convention defines it as “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”. Since they act as representations of cultural and historical identities, landscapes are one of mankind and communities’ inalienable rights: however, “other landscapes”, almost invisible, often appear right in front of our eyes, rendering us unable to narrate them. Those are territories that need to be redesigned, landscapes that need to be repossessed, reinvented or rebuilt. “Another Sicily / Postcards from Nowhere” tells the story newspapers, guidebooks and social media have seldom told, a story which is different from what we are used to see. To make this territory’s fragility and liminality visible, pictures inbetween public and private spheres are presented, “contemporary postcards” made up of undesigned, aseptic, messy and empty spaces.

You can find more of Mauro on his Instagram or his website.

A270 – Matthew Gibson

The A270 snakes its way north-eastwards from Brighton through the sprawling suburban estates of Bevendean, Moulescoomb, Coldean and Brighton and Sussex universities.

Since the mid-eighties, the twin phenomena of the ‘Right to Buy’ scheme and the 1992 Universities Act have had the dual effect of displacing established communities in Moulescoomb and neighbouring Bevendean and Coldean. Many residents cashed-in and moved out creating increasing numbers of HMOs. The area remains one of the most affordable areas creating a perpetual rotation of cash-strapped students.

I chose Easter Saturday for this shoot as most students had gone home for the weekend and ‘the Albion’ were at home to Leicester City. Apart from the odd pedestrian and a couple of school kids patrolling the streets on their bikes, the streets were mostly deserted. I wanted to avoid unnecessarily reproducing unhelpful and demonising social stereotypes of youths, gangs and ‘asbos’ that pollute the social imaginary.

One of the problems with bearing witness to a socially deprived area is sensationalising an aesthetic of decay. I sought to subjectively frame details which interested me; lines, perspectives, disparate features that seek unlikely aspects of character or reflect the general feeling of isolation and claustrophobia which pervades this deprived area.

You can find more of Matthew on his Instagram or website.

Winter – Konsta Ryösä

I enjoy night time photography and bad weather. I think the environment I'm photographing is much more controllable at night. Long exposure shots also show more colors and light that I see in that particular moment, so it’s also a nice surprise to see the hidden things in that scene. Lately, I’ve been almost only photographing on 35mm film, mainly because I enjoy the process. Film really works very well with night time scenes that I find pretty, it makes the colors somehow different, dreamy and moody. Fog, rain or snowfall also give a cozy feeling to the photo.

You can find more of Konsta on his Instagram or website.

Await – Luca Abbadati

AWAIT does not explain the reality of things. Reality serves as a starting point to say more. I always try to fix a moving moment. I photograph a moment that leads to an event that will happen shortly. A situation that tends to change in the immediate future.

Luca Abbadati was born in 1981. I do not photograph people. I’m interested in the geometric relationships between things and the proportions between natural and constructed elements. Of the photographs I like the “not told”, sometimes comprehensible, sometimes just imagined.

You can find more of Luca on his Instagram or website.

The Memory of the Present – Lorenzo Valloriani

“The memory of the present” is a photographic exploration of the actual Tuscan area in Italy, photographed between 2017 and 2018 in over 40 urban and suburban locations.

This ongoing project captures the most mundane and typical elements of landscape – countryside crossroads, vernacular architectures, river banks, memorial statues, ruins of ancient walls, postwar buildings infrastructure – that could be seen virtually in any Tuscan locality. It's also a work about collective memory and archetypes: the project focuses expecially on the altered landscape, urban and rural in equal parts, trying to emerging, to eyes and mind, the image of the everyday landscape that we tend unconsciously to suppress.

Born in Florence, Italy, on 1974, where live and work. During my studies in Art History I started to develop my passion in photography. I'm interested in documentary photography and my work focuses primarily on altered landscape.

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Superfici Instabili – Luana Rigolli

There is a picture of myself as a child that often comes to my mind: it's me on my desk, reading the very first rudiments of geology that the teacher wanted us to memorize perfectly. Plate tectonics, continental drift, volcanoes... I can remember the precise words if I concentrate just a little. I was only 10 years old, but I already loved that subject: the idea of something emerging from the center of the earth to its surface, bringing destruction and fear, but also new forms and strange landscapes, was fascinating.

The fist volcano I have ever seen is the Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy: I felt in love with that kind of scenario and I am still loving it when, for example, I fly to Lanzarote. I remember the first time I went there: the transfer from the airport to the little village of Famara is a winding road through a land of grey lava and black ash. I could only see the outline of volcanoes, no trees, nothing else: something completely different from the Italian landscape I was used to. I re-felt in love with it. Here I feel a strange energy that distorts my usual rhythm. I want to believe that the volcanoes destabilize me because they open a direct line that runs from the magma to the surface. I can't tell how many times I came here, in this expanse of nothing, enchanted by odd forms and discouraging lands... I need to portray them with my camera. Eventually I know that this landscape, as I see it in my pictures, could change forever for a sudden eruption. This is scaring and fascinating at once.

I'm from Italy and I'm 34 years old. The studies in civil engineering lead me to prefer subjects of architecture and human interaction with the landscape. I am founding member of the “Dieci x Dieci Contemporary Photography Festival” since 2015, in Gonzaga (Italy). In 2017 I've studied photojournalism at Fondazione Marangoni in Florence, whit Collettivo Terraproject. In 2015 I have been selected for the photography residence held by Harry Gruyaert (Magnum) organized by CAMERA Italian Centre for Photography.

You can find mor of Luana on his Instagram or website.

Homesick Bahia – Caio Leme

The south of Bahia was the first region that the portuguese had contact in Brazil. Since then much of its landscapes changed from the natural rain forests to man made structures and many economic cycles has passed. Nowadays its main economic activities are tourism, livestock raising, agriculture, charcoal, brick and pulp industry. The region has a great ethnic and cultural diversity, resulted from the afrodescents, indians and portuguese, which leads to conflicts, but also great beauty and uniqueness.

In the last years it has been suffering an economical decline after the previous decade of growth. Like the rest of the country has been an increasing number of empty houses, stopped constructions and closed small business. I made this series along February of 2018 in the cities of Prado, which includes the district of Cumuruxatiba, and Itamaraju documenting it’s somewhat exotic but desolated atomosphere.

Caio Leme is a landscape and fine art photographer based on Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Former biologist, where he had his first contact with photography, after graduate studied commercial photography in Senac (Brazil) until 2013. Lately, has been departuring from nature landscapes to human made or influenced landscapes, documenting the strange or unusual in the ordinary (or not so).

You can find more of Caio Leme on his Instagram.

Something Is There – Max Knight

These images were made in order to find beauty in landscapes marked by humanity. An exploration of big and small human footprints across the world, with the notion that our effect on the environment has become unavoidable and sometimes we should enjoy the accidental harmony of our actions.

Max Knight is a British landscape, street and environmental portrait photographer based in Los Angeles. He focuses on simple, intimate, natural imagery with emphasis on aesthetics and personality, shooting commercial work in the advertising, editorial and music industries while also pursing personal projects.

You can find more of Max on his Instagram or website.

This photographic project presents the rich cultural and historical heritage of the China Clay area in Cornwall, UK. It speaks of generations and how they perceived the transformations brought by the extraction industry. The clay works had a direct impact on the landscape and consequently on the consciousness of people and their sense of identity.

The photographic documentary incorporates archive material gathered from the people encountered, from the China Clay History society, Wheal Martyn Museum and Cornish Audio Visual Archive, to the contemporary take of the images produced through my perspective which creates a wide spectrum of information, and details that can resonate with a wide audience. It also juxtaposes writings of local authors, which have been inspired by the rhythm of life in the Clay Country.

A bit about myself: I was born in Bacau, Romania in 1984. At 16, I moved to Turin, Italy, where my passions developed towards sociology and psychology which led me to be inquisitive about local and global events and the stories that influenced my personal life and the wider community. As a result of further explorations, in 2010 I pursued a BA(Hons) degree in Press and Editorial Photography at Falmouth University in Cornwall, UK where I graduated in 2013 obtaining a 2:1. Currently I work towards developing a documentary photographic practice related to people and their environment by investigating the cultural heritage of small communities in the UK and Europe. I look for expressions of the subtle and sometimes intangible relationship between past, present, matter, surfaces, sense of place and identity.

You can find more of Annemarie Bala on her Instagram or her website.

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