CATEGORY 1: PHOTO SERIES

Author: Słavek Pytraczyk

Country: Canada

Title 1: Backyard Fields

Title 2: In the Thistles

Title 3: Summer Sky

Title 4: Temporary Seasons

Place: Saskatchewan, Canada

Description: Included I have chosen four images, as they are all part of a series of photographs. Each photo is shot on 35mm film using the multiple exposure technique. During this session, I attempted to capture a season in a state of change. All seasons are temporary, they come and go with time. I walked around a small city where my parents now live in Saskatchewan, Canada. I tried not to capture THE scene, but something OF the scene, something that stands in for the whole. Using out of focus and multiple exposures, I hope to capture an image that captures a sense of time, a specific sensibility that the viewer themselves puts forth into each image.

Website: www.slavekpytraczyk.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slavek_pytraczyk/

Author: Polina Schneider

Country: Germany

Title: Bench, Mensch

Place: Hannover, Germany

Description: This photo series was taken during the first Corona lockdown period in Hanover between March and June 2020. During this time I often looked out the living room window and had observed that the bench across the street quickly transformed to some center of social life of my neighborhood: Friends, acquaintances, newly in love, parents with children, children without parents - everyone met at this very bench and spent there either a few brief moments, or sometimes even a whole evening; sitting, talking, walking around in circles, putting down groceries, playing around, or simply hanging out for reading, smoking or drinking.

In June 2020, however, the bench was dismantled due to road works.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polisnaps/

Author: Erdem Cerit

Country: Netherlands.

Title of series ''Everyone enjoys the sun in their own way''.

Photo 1: ''A Short Break'', Poland

Photo 2: ''Among the Bushes'' Netherlands

Photo 3: ''Nuns'' Poland

Photo 4: ''Sun Brings Happiness'' Germany

Website: www.erdemcerit.com

Author: Andrew Hendrick

Country: USA

Title of series: Beat the Heat

Place: New York City

Description: Taken in various locations around the city this series depicts New Yorkers trying to find refuge from the heat.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scenebydrew/

Author: Ana Maria Prelipcean

Country: Romania.

Title: Cuba

Description: Over the last years I've been wondering the streets trying to capture the vibe of different cities in the world. I loved Cuba for its colors and textures and each photo had the intention to transmit the emotions I felt in that country, seeing the people and smelling the cities.

Links of the author:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anne_de_beauvoir/

Author: Nurlan Tahirli

Country: Azerbaijan

Title of series: Invisible City

Place:

Description:

Website: http://www.tahirli.net

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurlan_tahirli/

Author: Trever Tachis

Country: California USA

Title of series: Cityscapes

Place: San Francisco

Description:

Website: www.trevertachisphotography.com

Author: Darnia Hobson

Country: New Zealand

Title: “Chain series”

Place: Christchurch, New Zealand

Description: Chain is a series of double exposed icm images of architecture taken on a city walk. The motion echoes the strong summer winds and the movement through the streets. I considered the spaces around the buildings, rather than focusing on the structures themselves using the available light to model the images.

Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/darnia.hobson/

Author: Andi Papastefani

Country: Albania

Description: Andi Papastefani is an architect and urban sketcher. He is author of “Tirana -100 years capital” and “In Berat -walking and sketching”. For this exhibition, I’ve asked Andi how he uses photography in his creative process of urban sketching.

“Drawing and Photography have similarities and also differences. The name of Photography- drawing with light - make it clear the similarities between two arts that even use the same rules of composition. Both are important for recording purposes. The difference lay in the age of these arts; Drawing is almost old as the humanity, instead, Photography is only near 150 years old. For me Photography is impulsive, instead Drawing is meditative. Photography for me represents the object with fidelity and honesty, instead, Drawing is more subjective, I can express what I think is the essence of the object, and I can let unfinished or even out parts of it. When you have to engage in both, it is important to evaluate which of these arts can represent the object better, or which gives the idea of the composition clearer for the audience. In the end both they show the spirit of the artist.”

Title 1: “Lin”, Albania

Title 2: “Gjirokastra”, Albania

Links: Facebook: Sketches of the Cities - Andi Papastefani

Author: Nicolas Vazquez Reyes

Country: USA

Title of Series: "City of Stars"

This series contains 4 polaroids taken from my SX-70 Land Camera documenting my trip to Los Angeles, California.

Photo 1: "Sharing the Sunset" depicts our last night on the West Coast, and with the sun quickly setting, everyone pulled out their cameras to capture the moment.

Photo 2: "California Sun” you can see the blinding light illuminating the sea and sky, creating a wide array of warm and cold colors.

Photo 3: "Red Flowers" contains a beautiful bombardment of a red flower bed resting at the base of the cliffside, the sun shining perfectly.

Photo 4: "City Scape" reveals to us the scale and architecture of downtown LA, all in a perfect grid and symmetrical, but still full of life and light, much like its residents.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicosphotosss/

Author: George Dodd

Country: USA

Title: Northwest Skyline, Beginning and End

Place: Seattle

Description: Seattle, Washington skyline in June and August (taken with an Autel Evo II Pro)

Instagram: https://beauimages.myportfolio.com/

Author: Nefeli Charvalia

Country: Greece

Title Picture 1: Blue house

Place: Athens in 2021.

Description: As soon as I saw this old house by the sun I was moved by the harmony of the colors and the lighting in this scenery.

Title Picture 2: White house

Place: Piraeus 2021

Description: Just an old little cantine house, completely abandoned and forgotten, probably ignored by people walking past it. However it catched my eye because it has something coming from a completely different time, something completely unknown to me.

Title Picture 3:

Place: Alimos, Athens 2020

Description: An abandoned lifeguard's house. Its rusty red color creates a contrast along with the sand's warm color and the cold blue tones of the sea.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nefeli_charvalia/

Author: Mayank Makhija

Country: India

Title 1: Burning Mountains

Place: New Delhi, India

Description: A man scavenges for recyclables as smoke billows from a burning garbage mound at one of the largest landfill sites, Bhalswa, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on June 5, 2022. Piles of untreated garbage, coupled with rising temperatures, lead to excess emissions of methane from such landfills, often resulting in blazes. The frequent fires that break out at the site are a menace to tens of thousands of people living near the landfill. The waste that catches fire releases nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide, which cause breathing ailments for people.

Title 2: Signs of Climate Change

Place: New Delhi, India

Description: Boys walk through a partially dry riverbed in Yamuna after searching for recyclable materials on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, on April 30, 2022. The Yamuna River is the longest tributary of the Ganga in India, and its water is used for a range of activities like irrigation, drinking, industries, bathing, laundry, etc. However, due to increased temperatures and heat waves during the summer, the holy river dried up to its lowest point.

Title 3: Unsustainable Development

Place: Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Description: A scooterist passes by the coal-fired thermal power plant of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Dadri in Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, on May 5, 2022. Amid the rampant rise in power demand due to the prevailing heatwave, India is staring at its coal-based power plants, which are responsible for about 70% of India's electricity generation, resulting in carbon emissions leading to global warming.

Title 4: Water: A Daily Struggle

Place: New Delhi, India

Description: A woman carries her containers filled with water from a municipal water tanker to a slum area amid a shortage of water in New Delhi, India, on March 22, 2022. Delhi faces a huge water crisis due to low levels in the river Yamuna during peak summers. Around 70% of the water supply relies on Yamuna and the canals stemming from it, which reached their lowest levels amid an unprecedented heatwave this year.

About the project:

India experienced an unprecedented heatwave this year, with the hottest March ever recorded. As temperatures regularly soared past 45°C in the northern parts of India, the country’s wheat-producing regions' crops wilted in the fields. Piles of untreated garbage, coupled with rising temperatures, lead to excess emissions of methane from landfills, often resulting in blazes, which in turn lead to a worsening of the air quality across the national capital region.

According to the World Bank, heat waves in India could soon break the human survivability limit. 380 million people (75% of the workforce) depend on heat-exposed labour, contributing to nearly half of the country’s gross domestic product. Climate scientists say the prolonged heatwave is undoubtedly the result of global warming and climate change around the globe.

Bio: Mayank Makhija is an independent photojournalist based in New Delhi, working on reportage, human rights, social, and environmental issues across India. His editorial work has been published in the NYTimes, TIME, The Guardian, BBC News, Le Monde, NPR, CNN, Deutsche Welle, and Caravan, among others.

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