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Piper Smith
Marcin Piekalkiewicz
To fly or not to
Marcin Piekalkiewicz
Name something that can fly.
A bird.
Look at the world as if you were a bird moving through spaces.
Think about where you could go.
Think about places you could enter, fly around, sit upon.
As a human you will never fly like a bird.
But you can fly like a human.
Happiness is not about what you have.
It's about what you can do.
It's about whether you can fly or not.
How high and how far.
To fly high means to make possibilities happen.
To fly far is to make them last.
DreamBox Photography
Suren Karapetyan
Traveler Kids
Suren Karapetyan
Brought together by the obsession of heavy metal, travel and free love, this document of the heavy metal parking lot located under Interstate-83 is a collection of portraits taken over the course of a few years during one sultry weekend in Baltimore. These are the faces of the traveler kids.
Tucker Pollacia
People, Places, and Things.
Tucker Pollacia
Shot on 35mm black and white film using a Cannon AE1 camera. Documenting people, places, things that have a subtle beauty both dark and light.
"Suicide Bridge" captured from an objectively. A home of horror and beauty.
Wandering Trail.
Foothill Blvd. Nameless America.
Philip Vukelich
Nei Valente
Together
Nei Valente
This collection of portraits explores the individuality and energy of people that are part of big parades and events. I've always been curious to understand a little bit more about the things that unite thousands of individuals around one goal. The portraits of this selection were all made in NYC during the Pride Parade, Coney Island Polar Bear Club and the Mermaid Parade.
Jared Kessler
Celia Talbot Tobin
Chelsea
Celia Talbot Tobin
When 15-year-old Chelsea Spotted Eagle committed to attending prom at Browning High School on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in western Montana, it was a not decision she took lightly. It would be the first time she would wear a dress in public.
Chelsea - who has since changed her name to Deaven - is transgender. After an incident in which she was harassed and chased through her neighborhood, her parents were left nervous and protective. She is kept strictly at home when not in school, and her friends have gotten use to coming to her if they wish to hang out. Her first prom represented not only a chance at public self-expression, but also an opportunity for social independence she rarely gets to experience.
Her story is part of a larger project on LGBTQ life on Native American reservations. To identity as transgender can be challenging in the most progressive of communities, even as the word becomes more familiar to the ears of many Americans. On the Blackfeet Reservation, as in many rural communities, there remains a serious lack of resources for the LGBTQ community.
“I want him to get out there in the world, to be free. And not to feel like he’s trapped,” said her mother, Lydia Spotted Eagle, who still sometimes uses the pronouns of the son she gave birth to. “Not just because he’s transgender, but because he’s a Native American on a reservation. And around here we know there’s not a whole lot for our kids.”
Patricia Cook
KAREN SHARMAN
Hanging out in the Garage
KAREN SHARMAN
Abi is my favourite model. I wanted to take some really honest pix of her. We played around with some lighting and props in the garage and this is what we came up with. Abi is naturally very blonde & wears lots of makeup. She recently dyed her hair brown. I asked her to shave her eyebrows and wear no makeup for the shoot which she was more than happy to do. We were both very pleased with the results!
Larissa Ramey
Vitality of Mind
Larissa Ramey
My current work is about my mother’s transition from marriage to single-hood. Her perspective of life has changed from being a wife and mother to a mother and a now independent woman. In this series I want to convey her self-evaluation and progression as a person as well as how the bond between my mother and I has grown. In an attempt to salvage my mother’s emotions, I dedicated this project, as my way to convey her strength and resilience to hardship.
Yasamine June
Tomáš Vrana
michele zousmer
Hidden In Plain View
michele zousmer
The Irish Travellers are the marginalized community in Ireland. Known as Gypsies they are traditional and gender- based, with strong ties to family, lifelong bonds and God. Most live lives of hardship and poverty. Living in caravans with large families, lacking electricity and water, in encampments of overgrown weeds and garbage, rodents everywhere. Recently accepted as an Ethnic culture by the Republic of Ireland they still are denied basic human rights. This makes it difficult to get ahead in life. Trying to bring attention to these beautiful people.
Ana Barbara Caballero
Inversion
Ana Barbara Caballero
Loving Reflections, I created a mirrored cube in which is present in all of my photographs. The cube reflects the scenery, elements or shadows of the photograph. I use the reflections in many ways. They could become part of the photograph, be lost in abyss or it could be part of a whole element. In this series, it is used as Inversion. When you look at the photograph you can se what is there by not being there, is like being inside the photograph.
Ramona Zordini
Overcrowd
Ramona Zordini
it is a dialogue about fullness and emptiness, returning to the origin of language and disrupting every infrastructure, starting from the beginning, canceling out any material and emotional scaffolding. From the beginning, like a slow dribble, insert one by one elements and convey the message by filling or emptying the work of concepts.
Jinette Lopez
extraterrestrial beauty
Jinette Lopez
Sometimes the simplest equipment can become striking images. In this collaboration with model / makeup artist Juliette Ruddish we did just that! Looking to draw the attention of what we felt would be in a beauty editorial in outer-space. An "everyday" look, for an extraterrestrial beauty. We used a Canon 6d, Canon 85mm 1.8, A Neewer speedlight (purchased on amazon for about $40!), and a 22in white beauty dish with a bowens mount grip for the light. one light. one hour. amazing outcome.
Celia Talbot Tobin
Of Two Spirits
Celia Talbot Tobin
An ongoing portrait project documenting members of the LGBTQ Native American community who identify as Two Spirit - a modern, umbrella term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe people who fulfill a traditional third-gender ceremonial role within their cultures.
Amanda Gallant
Cody Greco
Animalia
Cody Greco
Animalia is an ongoing series of animal portraits highlighting their unique characteristics. By photographing animals on bright, fluorescent backgrounds, I hope to highlight the often remarkable contrast of a green camouflaged snake or caiman crocodile and the bright colourful backgrounds they rest upon. I also love to showcase how unnatural the natural can be, as seen in the dreamlike beauty of a shiny blue frog. I’m fascinated with creating stark contrasts between the natural and un-natural and began this series as a way to document and display the animals’ characteristics within man-made conditions.
Mafalda Rakoš
A Story to Tell
Mafalda Rakoš
You don’t really fit in... You don’t fit into the group of normal people, because you’re anorectic. And you don’t fit with those affected by anorexia, because you’re a man. -Thomas, 21
Ask someone to picture a person affected by anorexia. Eventually, they will picture be a girl who ‘slipped on her diet’.
A Story to Tell aims to show the other side of the story: the male experience of eating disorders. While a lot of academics, clinics and media are struggling to reach this group, the project gives insight into stories of 10 protagonists from the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. It’s absolutely unique regarding the topic and it’s scale.
Formerly affected by Anorexia myself, it strikes me that indeed, eating disorders almost solely occur in the “Western” world. Feeling fat. Unworthy. Insecure. The anxiety of not living up to the invisible voice in one’s head. Then: Recovery. What if this voice is not just expression of personal insecurities; What if It’s a cultural narrative?
Following my 5-year project "I want to disappear – Approaching Eating Disorders“ that was published as a book and shown in various exhibitions, conferences and hospitals, I want to raise my engagement with the topic to the next level.
Our process starts with a conversation. What does it look like, your mental cage? What do you feel, see, think, hear, taste and smell? And where shall we go to take that picture of it?
Interviews, Portraits, Drawings and Interventions with the protagonists become metaphors for inner landscapes and their overlooked, yet painfully relevant condition.
Zarinah Shabazz
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