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Varun Mudholkar
The Interglacial Era
Varun Mudholkar
As I stood at the foot of the glacier in Jokursarlon, watching colossal chunks of ice (icebergs) float on by into the ocean, it made me marvel at the beauty of our planet but also saddened by the harsh reality. Just as a tear rolls away from the eyes, these icebergs cracked and sailed downwards to the Ocean, soon to be melt and forgotten. The lifeblood of rivers and life reduced into ash. Whether it’s the so-called interglacial period or the global warming, it doesn’t change the fact that soon, glaciers may be a rare commodity. As I picked up an atomic glacier, it looked very much like a diamond but difference being that diamonds last forever and this may not. Maybe that can change, hopefully it will.
Jenna Saint Martin
Fall Awakening
Jenna Saint Martin
out of the darkness of the earth & into the light of day, her botanic beauty transcends the spectrum, transforming from a shrinking violet to a rose in full bloom
muse ELLIA SOPHIA
photography JENNA ST. MARTIN
styling WILLYUM BECK
art direction RYAN DEMARCO
hair & makeup AMY GILLESPIE
Uwa Iduozee
They Walked on Water
Uwa Iduozee
The earliest available records show that the history of Afro Finnishness goes back as far as 1899 when Rosa Emilia Clay got her Finnish citizenship as the first person of African descent. They Walked on Water honors this tradition by highlighting the people who through their hard work and sacrifices built a new life in Finland, and in the process made it possible for us and other Afro Finns to dream in ways that were not possible for them.
The discourse regarding black people in Finland is often limited in its scope and lacks understanding of the amount of time black people have lived in this country and the ways we have helped mold it into the place it is today. This is a story about first generation Afro Finns, the trailblazers - about who they were, who they’ve become and about the ways in which they have influenced their new home. A home that wasn’t always the paradise it was described as. Thank you for your your fearlessness and the sacrifices you made for those that came after you. For us.
Jacob Newton
Chasing The MM
Same time, same place
Chasing The MM
I was traveling in Spain. These are images all within 30 minutes around sunset. I've been working on double exposures with nature and this was a time I was starting to figure out how to shoot a city and depict it in my own style. I have been a digital shooter for over 10 years and I needed a space for myself. I went back to film and using a camera from the 60's the Argus C3 Matchmatic. I went back to developing and scanning. Every process effects the final image. The tones vary from different parts of the sky, from the way I scanned it, and from using curves and saturation on Photoshop. But the image is what is shot on 35mm film. I am always dumbfounded when I scan a new roll.
Maddi Ring
Yvonne Stanley
The Boob Book Project
Yvonne Stanley
The Boob Book Project is a photographic portrait series that features the complex relationship that 100 diverse, anonymous women have with their breasts. These stories may start with breasts but end in a labyrinth of topics. This project features all ages, races, cultures, sizes, abilities, sexual orientations and genders. This inclusivity creates a powerful impact that will challenge society’s body standards. I hope to inspire, educate and show the world and generations of women, the beauty in diversity and the power of vulnerability and sharing stories. As a mixed-race Canadian artist who has overcome and transformed from a tragic personal event which inspired this project, I understand the need for safe spaces and artistic expression. I feel a responsibility to create conscious art that challenges and inspires necessary conversations for change.
The Boob Book Project is extremely relevant to the current events women in the world are facing. This feature is not only an incredible opportunity to showcase my work and grow as an artist abroad, but also a fantastic opportunity to capture the perfect audience at a relevant time in history. It would be an absolute honor to gain your support in helping to make this a reality.
Christopher Janaro
Coming Home
Christopher Janaro
"Coming Home" is a personal project primarily focused on my family and the surrounding environment of rural central New York created during the first year of the Trump presidency. While I had initially set out to document my family and other Trump supporters in and around my home county in an objective manner, the course of the work became much more personal in nature as I began to reflect more on my past and upbringing (after a long absence) by examining my family in their present state of long-held traditional values and lifestyle. In doing so it is my intention to not only reconcile long-standing issues I've held with my family (which were only heightened during the election) but to help foster an understanding of their mindset in relation to our current political and/or civic attitudes and to not only give insight into some of these attitudes but to also investigate our own place and responsibilities in our current political environment. by documenting my own family, my past, and my own values in relation to theirs I ask the viewers to reflect on their own.
Is there any overlap? And can we as a nation heal through the bonds of our kinfolk and province?
Andrey Glazkov
La Habana Vieja, Cuba
Andrey Glazkov
Old Havana is a mysterious and beautiful place in the heart of the capital of Cuba. The idea was to document street life of its inhabitants using street photography techniques. The main topic of this project was an isolation of Cuba and its people. It was depicted through isolation of subjects in some pictures using light and shadow.
Wendy Jensen
Timothy Frazier
Erika Orozco
Peaches and Cream
Erika Orozco
The mood was to capture the comforting feel of the sun on a crisp autumn day with a hint of sweetness that comes from ripe peaches. I assembled my lustrous backdrop outdoors and Incorporated a classic flowy gown with a dewy makeup look on model for a warm portrait taken with natural light.
Patryk Karbowski
Eva Verbeeck
America's Girls
Eva Verbeeck
As a young European woman, I was always idealized in the iconic culture of the United States. Living here now I see things in a more nuanced way. As a photographer I am interested in the role women play in this ionic narrative of American society and wanted to investigate how young women are sexualized and stereotyped every day in various ways.
I chose to photograph cheerleaders because they often represent the American beauty in pop culture. Cheerleading originated in the United States where it remains predominantly. American pop culture firmly established the cheerleader as an American icon of sex appeal and the classical stereotype of the American beauty. From a young age, girls are obliged to wear makeup and pose suggestively. In this series I want to investigate and challenge this beauty stereotype.
I want to show the vulnerable side of these young women. The girls in these portraits are between 5 and 13 years old. I am interested in adolescence as a fleeting and transitional stage. Young girls seem to go to an incredibly rapid change in their teens, being a child to becoming an adult seems to occur overnight.
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Bodies of Water
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The ocean is nature’s mandala, silently attracting people to look farther and deeper to the end of horizon. Invisible energy aligns people directionally toward the sea. Is going to the beach the ceremony to remember our origin?
Realism is photography’s unique property. A virtual copy of reality allows us to decipher reality, to stew on it, to reflect. My series Bodies of Water seeks to question our understanding of reality visually.
If time and space were not linear, if we removed the restriction of time, how would it change us? If being in “time” - being in the present - means to forget the future, then the future would not weigh on us - it would not exist. Would this allow us to observe a single object or an event from multiple viewpoints at the same time?
If smallest particles have pairs in Quantum Entanglement, do we have pairs in different parallel universes? What if we could see them all? We wouldn’t dazzle out of space-time like what children do?
Yohan Kim
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!
Anneliese Henjak
Pollination
Anneliese Henjak
These images form part of a larger documentary book project which followed Melbourne City Rooftop Honey founders Mat and Vanessa through the Summer and Autumn beekeeping cycle in order to reveal the unique challenges and rewards of urban beekeeping and uncover the secret world of an insect so vital for human survival, yet currently under threat by predators and environmental degradation.
Andrés Mario de Varona
Contact
Andrés Mario de Varona
Contact focuses on reconnecting with my deceased mother by
recording rituals and ceremonies to contact her spirit. I create and perform these rituals myself and with family, as well as with specific objects that once belonged to my mother. By creating these spaces for my family members we embark on navigating through our own experience of loss. Not only has it been cathartic, but the project has also helped me comprehend death within a societal context. Due to medical advancements, technology, and societal norms, death has become nearly invisible. It's something we don't typically witness, but are informed of instead.
By bridging life and death in these images I aim at continuing the conversation and
exploration Victorian Spiritualists initiated throughout the late 19th and early 20th century. This was a particular time in Western culture when sicknesses were rampant and often untreatable. The visibility of death pushed citizens for a new understanding of what it meant to die, and the camera was an instrument that helped rationalize and ground this mystery. With this series my family and I search for that similar understanding by choosing to get close with death. By sharing the
desire to be spirit communicators we allow ourselves to be guided by mystic forces as we graze the realm of uncertainty.
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