Zeren Yu
China. Photographed with flash in Shanghai’s crowded tourist spots, these images play with humor and psychological tension, capturing fleeting expressions and dense human energy.
Vica Rosario Bogaerts
Netherlands. Set in Hanoi’s Long Biên market before sunrise, this series reveals a world alive with rhythm, solitude, and quiet grace — where daily life unfolds before the city awakens.
Umberto Verdoliva
Italy. Through minimalist compositions and subtle light, this series evokes calm and clarity. It’s a meditation on simplicity — not as absence.
Taras Bychko
Ukraine. A journey through Ukrainian towns where Soviet-era traces persist — frozen in architecture and public spaces, resisting erasure and haunting the present.
Philip Coburn
Ireland. Shot during military embeds in Afghanistan (2007–2008), this series documents life with British forces — marked by danger, censorship, and the surreal tension of war’s daily rhythm.
Paolo Artuso
Italy. In the quiet villages of northern Romania, this project captures a world suspended in time — where nature, faith, and rural life remain deeply interwoven.
Murat Harmanlikli
Turkey. A visual meditation on Istanbul’s contrasts, where light and shadow become a language — revealing the city’s vibrancy, silences, and layered emotional depth.
Michael Robinson Chavez
United States. A black-and-white chronicle of Peru’s mixed identity, this decades-long project reflects both national hybridity and the photographer’s personal search for belonging.
Lisandra Alvarez
Cuba. Set along Havana’s malecón, this series captures the sea as a liminal space — where faith, longing, and imagination flow between the physical and the spiritual.
Jozef Macak
Slovakia. This series explores the fragile relationship between people and water in Bangladesh, focusing on the Buriganga River as a symbol of resilience, dependence, and environmental strain.
Davide Janigro
Italy. Captured during daily routines, these images reveal surreal and poetic moments hidden in ordinary life — glimpses of unexpected beauty that appear when reality briefly bends.
Cosmin Garlesteanu
Romania. A long-term exploration of Bucharest’s evolving character, where the photographer treats the city as a collaborator in an open-ended visual dialogue shaped by light, time, and curiosity.
Barbara Peacock
United States. This series portrays rural life in Maine, where work, community, and nature intertwine. It reveals the poetry of the everyday and the universal search for light, love, and belonging.
Margarita Mavromichalis
Greece. Through spontaneous moments and subtle gestures, this series uncovers the surreal poetry hidden in everyday urban life.
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