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  • “Contrapasso” by Photographer Massimiliano Corteselli

    “Contrapasso” by Photographer Massimiliano Corteselli


    A haunting series by photographer Massimiliano Corteselli surveying the human element to the wildfires in the mediterranean region. Corteselli was born in 1994 in Tivoli, a small town near Rome. He completed his studies at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin. In 2022, Corteselli received a working grant from the VG Bild-Kunst/Kulturwerk Foundation for his project “Contrapasso.”

    In the first part of The Divine Comedy, Dante sets out on a journey through hell with the Roman poet Virgil, meeting deceased people suffering eternal punishments resembling the sin they committed. The principle that the punishment should be relevant to the crime is known as “contrapasso.” In the Mediterranean, many of the wildfires are man-made, either due to real estate speculation, the clearing of land for agriculture or other economic reasons. In areas where formal authority has been eroded, fire is used as a form of vengeance. Corrupt politicians may set fires in order to receive funding from the central government, pocketing a portion for themselves. Some fire-fighters light the fires they fight in an attempt to get more job security. Ultimately, investigating the causes of wildfires can lead to the spreading of rumours or stories that Corteselli believes contain biblical or archetypal themes:

    “In ‘Contrapasso’ I create an analogy between Dante’s Inferno and the wildfires in the mediterranean region and reinterpret them as a divine punishment. In the modern, globalised world the relation between cause and effect is not always clear. It’s becoming more important than ever to think about the way our actions as human beings unleash a vicious cycle of causality, that will eventually come back to plague us.”





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  • “Lakeside” by Photographer Shane Rocheleau

    “Lakeside” by Photographer Shane Rocheleau


    American photographer Shane Rocheleau contemplates his home of Lakeside, Virginia in the wake of November 9, 2016. While the election results were shocking at the time, Rocheleau also found a lot of things that made sense, especially considering how many people there were “merely treading water,” unable to separate the American Dream from its oppugnant reality. Rocheleau draws parallels between the Red-bellied Woodpecker (a native species) and the invasive European Starling:

    “Under the patchy lawns of Lakeside, there lies a pre-colonial “Oughnum”, or “good hunting land” in the indigenous Algonquian dialect…. In early Spring one year, my family and I watched a pair of Red-bellied Woodpeckers bore a nest for their clutch at the rotting end of a shorn bow. They did their work several paces from where we sat each afternoon. Eventually, the excavating stopped and the female settled in. We joyfully awaited little chirps. One morning, we found two eggs broken beneath the nest and another unbroken at the center of the yard. In an Orwellian nod to Manifest Destiny, European Starlings had raided the nest and made it their own.”

    For Rocheleau, Lakeside is representative of countless spaces built to feign American exceptionalism–“a place with 11,000 human beings doing the best they can, ugly and beautiful things alike, while drowning in the reality that dreaming yields far less than its promise.”





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  • “Real Football” by Photographer Nick Bannehr

    “Real Football” by Photographer Nick Bannehr


    Images from a limited-edition photo book by Australian photographer Nick Bannehr (previously featured here). “Real Football” documents the chaotic medieval football match played each Good Friday in the English village of Chiddingstone. With 200 players on each team, no formal rules, and goals over a mile apart, the four-hour game unfolds across fields, roads, and rivers in a spectacle of endurance, tradition, and community pride.

    “The tone of the work emerged naturally. I didn’t want to be a bystander—I ran with the players, chased the ball through muddy paddocks and over stone fences. At one point I even had to push the ball aside to avoid becoming part of the game. I wanted to sit in the energy source and point my camera at it as it simmered around me.”

    The book launches at 6pm today at Between Lines in Newtown, Sydney, Australia.





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  • “Strange Nature” by Photographer Delaney Allen

    “Strange Nature” by Photographer Delaney Allen


    A selection of images from American photographer Delaney Allen (previously featured here). Allen continues his exploration of the American West with his series “Strange Nature.” Highlighting the unique and mystical through a dark colour palette as well as black and white imagery, the familiar becomes strange and distorted:

    “Similar to the approach in the previous series Red Orange, I have been approaching the work with the idea of the artist hand in creating a unique approach to photographing nature. This allows for an otherworldly feel both by the subjects I’m photographing and by the means in which I capture them. I’m aiming for simple beauty and confusion.”

    The project is available in book form through UK-based publisher Jane & Jeremy.





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  • “Caspian” by Photographer Khashayar Javanmardi

    “Caspian” by Photographer Khashayar Javanmardi


    A stunning collection of photos by Persian artist and photographer Khashayar Javanmardi. Javanmardi studied architecture at Guilan University of Art and Architecture in Iran then moved to Denmark and graduated in photojournalism from Danish Media and Journalism School in 2021. While he is now based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Javanmardi grew up on the shores of the Caspian Sea—a body of water surrounded by Iran on the South, Russia on the North, Azerbaijan to the West, and Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan on the East. The Caspian Sea sees approximately 122,000 tons of pollutants from the coastal states enter the marine environment every year.

    Having witnessed the effects of unregulated exploitation, pollution, overfishing, and climate change first hand, Javanmardi’s ongoing project captures the environmental crisis and the lives of local inhabitants whose existence becomes smaller and poorer as the once-abundant resource diminishes. Javanmardi’s documentary approach is both observational and a form of activism, as it speaks to the urgency of our current environmental moment.

    The project has been released as a photo book. Caspian: A Southern Reflection is available now via Loose Joints Publishing.





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  • “A Poor Sort of Memory” by Photographer Tracy L Chandler

    “A Poor Sort of Memory” by Photographer Tracy L Chandler


    Los Angeles-based photographer Tracy L Chandler documents her hometown in “A Poor Sort of Memory.” Set against the Californian desert and with reference to the words of the White Queen from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland–“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”–Chandler revisits her past, not with the expectation that she will arrive at some sort of conclusive truth but, rather, with the understanding that she is venturing further down the rabbit hole:

    “As I revisit old hideouts in concrete washes and private bunks in rock formations, I am reminded of a past laden with trauma and my youthful desperation to find both a sense of belonging and independence. I would escape the morbid chaos of my family home and take refuge in the periphery. Now I return to these spaces to photograph. This land is strikingly beautiful but also feels both claustrophobically familiar and alien with dis-belonging. There is ambivalence as I explore this landscape. I contend with the conflict of the seemingly objective reality before me versus the subjective truth of my memories. I find myself chasing ghosts and evading monsters. I struggle to parse memory from fantasy and reflection from projection. As I work, I embrace this unreliable narrator and use the tracings of my history to craft a new loose photographic fiction.”

    Tracy L Chandler shared “A Poor Sort of Memory” with us via the Submissions section of our site. The project is currently available as a photo book published by Deadbeat Club.





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  • “Pas de Deux” by Photographer Jillian Freyer

    “Pas de Deux” by Photographer Jillian Freyer


    A series exploring themes of platonic intimacy and the power of touch by New England-based photographer Jillian Freyer (previously featured here). Freyer holds an MFA from Yale and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work explores themes of the familial, shared experiences, and the quotidian. “Pas de Deux” represents a collection of photographs taken between 2012-2024. Through staged performances and observation, Freyer considers the boundaries between beauty and violence, questioning what differentiates the movements of a dance between two people and an act of self-defence when, in both instances, the bodies sway and roll and reveal a sense of vulnerability:

    “Exposed bellies, backs of knees, two women wrestling, and a pile of hands gathering on my grandmother’s arm. I have always been drawn to these secret moments, sacred sites within our internal and most intimate worlds. As I create these photographs, it becomes clear that I am composing a world where I desire to exist. My camera mediates between my lived experiences and those I so deeply desire, a place existing between the landscape and my lens. These photographs of women are not just images; they are an offering. They extend a sense of community, a thread of connection, even in the most solitary of moments.”





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  • “Newtown Creek” by Photographer Farhan Ajram

    “Newtown Creek” by Photographer Farhan Ajram


    A series exploring the industrial landscape between North Brooklyn and Queens by photographer and designer Farhan Ajram. Based in New York City, Ajram is drawn to the idea of documenting cities and revealing their forms and tonalities through the convergence of shape and shadow in shared moments of time. A recurring theme in his work is the tension between urban life and the tranquility of nature.

    “The series explores the industrial landscape between North Brooklyn, where I live, and Queens, with Newtown Creek as its backdrop. The area is home to the largest oil spill in U.S. history and is one of the most polluted sites in the country. It’s a hub for junkyards, waste management facilities, and warehouses. Through photography, I aim to better understand the landscape I live in and how industry shapes our cities.”





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  • “Nucleo” by Photographer Wouter Van de Voorde

    “Nucleo” by Photographer Wouter Van de Voorde


    A selection of 6×6 (analog square format) images from photographer Wouter Van de Voorde’s 2023 book, Nucleo, published by Area Books. The title is a reference to the nuclear family, and the images chronicle Van de Voorde’s own family over the course of a decade. Many of the photos were captured in the Australian bush, reinforcing the theme of isolation—a family surviving on their own—which echoes throughout the work.

    Wouter van de Voorde is a Belgian-born photographer based in Canberra, Australia whose work “centers on the subtle resonances between personal narratives and cultural contexts, informed by his own migration from Belgium to Australia.”





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