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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 […]
Landscapes of Fire and Memory CARMELO MICIELI // Sicilian photographer Carmelo Micieli is an observer of truth and transformation. He grew up surrounded by the stark beauty of a landscape marked by centuries of history and the presence of the sea. His artistic sensibility developed early, shaped by his fascination with the Impressionist painters of […]
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 Portrait of Bhadohi’s Weaving Heritage SANJEEV KUMAR // Sanjeev Kumar is not merely an observer of craft—he is shaped by it. Born into a family of carpet artisans in Bhadohi, India’s “Carpet City”, his earliest memories are laced with colour pigments, wool fibres, and the rhythmic clatter of looms. Now based in Delhi and […]
NATHAN MURRELL // For British photographer Nathan Murrell, creativity began not behind a still camera, but in the moving image. He studied Film Production at university, originally intending to pursue a career as a cinematographer. The pull of visual storytelling was always there—framing a scene, shaping light, and evoking mood—but over time, photography became his […]
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