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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
IRINA CHEREMISINA // In her poignant mixed-media series Where Is My Home?, Ukrainian artist Irina Cheremisina unpacks the emotional residue of displacement. Now based in Spain, Irina’s journey as an artist is intimately entwined with her experience of war, loss, and identity. After losing her home in Donetsk in 2014 and later fleeing Ukraine in […]
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