The beautiful works of Chicago based artist Clarissa Bonet, explore aspects of urban space in both a physical and psychological context – for almost a decade, the city has been her subject. She uses photography to process her experiences and understand the ever-shifting urban space she inhabits.
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Sharing is Scary DIY Zine
What bridges the gap between a good body of work and photos you wouldn’t consider publishing? This is the central question of Lena Matrosova’s and Caro Tolkemit’s DIY photo-zine project Sharing is Scary. Their goal: featuring never published material thus releasing them from their tomb – the photographic archive.
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Matthieu Vivinis • Los Angeles & Portland
Paris based art director Matthieu Vivinis explored Los Angeles and Portland on his last journey and photographed both cities solely with his iPhone. In his interview, he shares his sightings alongside some beautiful and personal background information.
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Seunggu Kim • Better Days
Due to Korea’s rapid development over the last 40 years, and by mixing up western and Korean culture, abstruse and sometimes even contradictory situations occur heavily. In his body of work, Seoul based photographer Seunggu Kim explores those situations on a grander and more distant scale, humorously pointing out the resulting social irony.
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Joshua Marcotte • San Jose
Photographer, historian, preservationist, and self-proclaimed hoarder from San Jose, Joshua Marcotte, photographs the fragments that make up the shifting world around him. See a selection of his works shot in San Jose, Reno, Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
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Rob Stephenson • From Roof to Table
From Roof to Table was the final result of a year long project documenting New York City’s urban agriculture movement, by Brooklyn based photographer Rob Stephenson, in cooperation with the Design Trust for Public Space NYC. His work focuses on the transitioning spaces in the city, places that juxtapose past and future, or nature and civilization.
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Fostering Families and Neighborhoods – The Vietnamese Tube House
Perhaps just as iconic to the Vietnamese aesthetic as motorbikes are tube houses: spindly and impossibly narrow towers that stretch three, four, five, sometimes eight stories tall, and are the predominant residential structure throughout the country’s urban areas.
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Luca Savettiere • Palermo
Following a recurring theme in his work, Luca Savettiere approaches his surroundings in a way to find specific elements in the urban landscape that deeply connect the man to the environment in wich he lives. His photographic analysis tries to relate man, geographic territory and what on the territory was added by man.
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Andrew Ward • Sofas of L.A.
1.200 pieces, 6 years of constantly seeking and photographing abandoned and cast-off furniture in Los Angeles: Sofas of L.A. – the culmination of a gigantic, still ongoing project by Andrew Ward – depicts beautifully rugged sofas which seamlessly blend in in their new and unintended surrounding, the streets of Los Angeles.
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Arnau Rovira Vidal • A Ghost City
The Spanish photographer Arnau Rovira Vidal submitted a part of his series on the strange, megalomanic, and monumental architecture of Turkmenistan’s capital city Ashgabat and provides some interesting background information on their bizarre history and development.
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Urbiquity Urban Lab ’18 – Residency Program in Milan
Urbiquity, a platform for creative and critical urbanism, specialized in creating workshops and residencies in cities all over Europe, is now organizing their fourth residency program taking place in Via Padova, Milan, from June 4 till 10, culminating in an exhibition.
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Adam Friedberg • New York City
The last fifteen years have seen an enormous increase in the development and construction of new buildings in New York City, especially in downtown Manhattan’s East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, and the Bowery neighborhoods. Adam Friedberg, having learned under renowned photographer Joel Sternfeld, documents the developing architectural landscape culminating in his long term project “Single Story”.