Spencer Glover
My great-grandfather was an odd man by all accounts. He was my granny’s father. He fought in the Boer War, and was a docker on Dublin’s North Wall. He didn’t drink, nor smoke, nor curse – which must have been strange behaviour, if not for a soldier, then certainly for an Irish docker. He had […]
Thana Faroq
How Shall We Greet the Sun explores the personal stories and complex emotional lives of a small group of young female refugees living in the Netherlands, including Thana. It reflects on their shared and individual journeys, casting an eye toward both tangible and metaphorical futures. Many of them are at a point in life where […]
Mónica Almereyda
It all starts with a correspondence relationship that I established with a man deprived of liberty. In our letters, he shared his daily life in prison and I, told about my life on the outskirts of Mexico City. Both of us, in our own ways, were excluded by society: he, as a prisoner confined within […]
Yuxing Chen
The Oriental Scene investigates the concept of Chinoiserie architecture in the UK in the context of decolonialism. The project uses a replica of the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing in Kew Gardens as the main object of investigation, which includes objects, drawings and documents to show how the pagoda was represented in various mediums. Prompted by […]
Matevž Čebašek
My family faced dementia for the first time in the 1980s, when my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. My grandmother cared for him until he passed away in 2008. She witnessed all the steps of his disease. I can’t imagine how frightening and frustrating it must have been, when she found out about her […]
Kat Green
This series of photos explores my friend Tam’s transition. I first met Tam when our sons started school, and about a year later, Tam came out as transgender. I witnessed the challenges they faced in coming out and rebuilding their life at home, with family, friends, and at work. After Tam‘s first consultation with a […]
Salem Ashe
My work is a festering wound, celebrating its grotesqueness. My conception was deemed to be a moral error. I was rejected by my patrilineal family, and told it was a shame that I was born. Here, my experience with abjection began. As I scoured the depths of my otherness, I birthed something wretched yet infallible. […]
Catriona Leahy
What if we believe we are »alien«? That our existence on this planet is an accident – the result of a cosmic event during which our ancestral cells landed here 4.2 billion years ago. We are not indigenous to the earth – We are outsiders. I borrow this notion from astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe and apply […]
Vanni Jung Ståhle
In 1998 my grandparents committed suicide. On the front door was a note stating that only the police had access. Their farewell letters lay on the kitchen table next to a pile of borrowed books that needed to be returned. In this project all the photographs were taken at our summer house on an island […]
Vladislav Lakubovskii
This is an excerpt from a bigger series that is about my trip to an abandoned town called Anakria at the Georgian border with occupied Abkhazia. It is one of those lands that are seemingly dead. Desolate lands. Where the soil is barren and the winds are dry. But it is lands like this that […]
Klaus Leo Richter
When the Soviet authorities demanded Kastute to work in the collective farm, she told them »you can dig a hole in front of my door and I will vanish«. Rather than working for the soviet system, she chose a life of modest self-determination tied to nature. As a consequence, Kastute never got an electricity connection […]
Lesha Pavlov
My grandma passed away on my birthday. I felt her warmth and care until I was 27 years old. What do I even know about her? Not very much, to my shame. Although I sincerely considered her to be my closest person. Grandma’s life was marked by many upheavals. Wars, the collapse of the country, […]
Mano Svanidze
Lili and Amiran fled the war in 1991 and found a home in an abandoned hospital building in Tbilisi. They paid 40 euros to stay there for a couple of nights. 30 years later this is still their home. This project explores what it means to live as a displaced person for 30 years and […]
Ian Wainaina
Over the ocean waves is a series of photographs capturing my experiences navigating a western society over the last decade having grown up in Kenya for the first 18 years of my life. In a lot of ways, migration into a new culture changes a lot of ways we perceive ourselves and others. The question, […]
Christoff Wiesinger
I capture in this Frieze-Photography the journey of the Brazilian dancer, performer and choreographer Will Lopes. His performance »I WILL« shows his journey as migrant to Austria. FRIEZE seems the adequate media to capture the transformation in Butoh dance. As he describes himself »To be an immigrant«. The romantic dream about a better life in […]
Clara Watt
This project documents the passing of an anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Ghana using portraits and collage to show the contrast between expression and repression. It aims to bring global attention to these human rights violations, advocating for social change and protections for the LGBTQ+ communities in Ghana and beyond. My initial project started in 2022 aimed […]
Sarah Mei Herman
In response to my long-term »Touch« series, I was approached by Emerson & Wajdowicz Studios in New York, to produce a related project and photo solacebook about the LGBTQ+ community in China. In September 2019, I returned to Xiamen to portray young queer people, all of whom I found through my -existing network in the […]
Alan Phelan
The Joly screen process I use is an early additive colour method invented in Ireland (1895). Despite being the first proof that all colours can be made from red, green and blue, John Joly, a physicist and scientist on the fringe of Europe was gazumped by centres of power and influence, when the Lumière Brothers spotty […]