Urban Art Festival Styria in pictures: Mots, HNRX, Jacoba Niepoort and Lunar working on murals in Graz
The Urban Art Festival Styria 2020 in Graz recently launched its annual street art event that featured sprawling new murals across the city and villages from the region. Future Icons association and STUWO student’s house together with the artists, fine art students have prepared music performances, exhibitions, interactive installations, and other creative programs during the […]
Photography on the battlefront of an interspecies war – Olga Plesińska talks with Andrew Skowron
Translation: Michał Toński ‘Preserving “emphatic images” is my job. I believe that animal breeding has no right to be a hermetic part of our world. An investigative photographer’s duty is to unnerve the audience with images of the abuse that is going on there, so that no animal is forgotten in its tragedy. I do […]
SmART moments – collages by Magdalena Sobolska
Even if we just sit in the metro and travel. We are moving, we run, we drive. We are in constant movement accompanied by quiescence. And in this system of relative stillness, our emotions and thoughts sometimes start to speed. Telephone is in our hand. Message comes – beginning or answer. The world is focused […]
We wait about two hours on the Montenegro border – A journey through Albania – Karolina Siwicka
We wait about two hours on the Montenegro border. Frayed flags of the European Union are flying. Montenegro is not in the European Union, which did not prevent it from using its currency. We are entering Albania. Immediately after crossing the border, we are attacked by the air that’s irritating throat and eyes. Our […]
Bangladesh. India – Sławek Siczewski
The author of the photographs is Sławek Siczewski from Opole who went on a trip to Asia in 2017, where he spent over 5 months. During the lonely trip he focused mainly on interacting with the people he encountered, that’s why his photos are connected with real stories and friendships that continue to this day […]
Intimacy of the streets – Anna Stachurka in Athens
I knew I was moving to the politically hottest region of Athens – Exarcheia district. Apart from the picture of the Acropolis in my head, and the general knowledge on difficult situation in Greece – my mind was free of any notions or concepts about the place. I flew there in search of images […]
There is no death, there is only eternal love – short story of my grandparents – Borya Galperin
All the photos are taken in town of Mscislau (Мсцісла́ў). My grandma is from Orsha (Vitebsk region) and grandpa is from Mscislau (Eastern Belarus). They are Jewish, and they both survived the war and Holocaust. Grandma Dora — babushka — was in evacuation in central Russia, where she learned Russian language. Before she could only speak Yiddish and Belarusian. Grandpa Chaim was a soldier of the soviet army during the […]