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ILYA GANPANTSURA // Ukrainian artist Ilya Ganpantsura comes to photography by a roundabout path. Based in Dnipro and trained as a painter, Ilya has long treated the camera as a quiet companion—a tool for gathering impressions, references, and textures for his watercolours and oil paintings. Photography, until now, lived in the margins of his artistic […]
BOHDAN NAHORNYI // Bohdan Nahornyi is a Ukrainian artist raised in Bilopyllia. He channels the raw immediacy of analogue photography to tell stories that are both personal and historically grounded. Using instant film and a range of analogue techniques, he creates images with a distinctly vintage aesthetic—intimate, fragile, and unfiltered reflections of life in Ukraine […]
BEAN X // For London-based artist and squatter Bean, photography is not just an artistic practice—it’s a personal, political, and emotional exorcism. Working with 35mm film and collaborators from the underground music and queer performance scene, they construct dreamlike tableaux where disorientation, dissociation, and desire converge in charged visual fragments. Their images feel like transmissions […]
A Dialogue with My Father’s Lens ROEE MORAG // Roee Morag’s artistic practice spans painting, photography, collage, video, and sound, but it is the fertile in-between—where memory overlaps with image, and image dissolves into emotion—that his work finds its most poignant form. With Painted Memories, a recent photo-based series, Roee transforms personal family archives into […]
ALESSANDRA BERTO // Italian-born and now based in Spain, Alessandra Berto began her artistic photography journey only recently—but with remarkable conviction and emotional clarity. Picking up a camera she discovered a means of expression that bypasses words and taps directly into feeling. Her work—created using handheld long exposure and intentional camera movement —embraces the poetry […]
COLOURING THE COLD JOCHEN CERNY // Jochen Cerny, based in Munich, is not your typical photographer. With a background in international investment banking, his trajectory into the world of art might seem unlikely—until you look at his work. In his latest series “Snowland”, Jochen transforms winter landscapes into surreal colour-drenched dreamscapes, revealing a vision that […]
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