Photography Exhibition THE CITY IN SUMMER (6-th Edition)
We are pleased to present the 6th edition of the Online Photography Exhibitions at Tati Space Photography Center, with the Theme THE CITY IN SUMMER.
THE PRESENTATION
We are pleased to present the 6-th edition of the Online Photography Exhibitions at Tati Space Photography Center, with the Theme THE CITY IN SUMMER. In the beginning of October, we made the open call to participate in the online exhibition with a photography or a series of your city, or the one you have visited, seen through the lens of your camera, detached from the commercial or touristic perspective. It could be a problematic you had noticed and captured, an attitude of the inhabitants or the tourists who were passing by, or it might be a pure aesthetic photograph.
We are happy that to our invitation have been responded many artists from different parts of the world: USA, UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Israel, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, India, Chine, Brazil, among others. From 103 submissions, we have selected 33 authors, hoping that in addition to the aesthetic values, the photographs will reveal to you familiar and experienced moments of the Summer in the City.
Hope you enjoy them all!
Curator
Alketa Misja
CATEGORIES
Photography Exhibition THE CITY IN SUMMER (6-th Edition)
Category Single Shot, “THE CITY IN SUMMER” Online Photography Exhibitions 6th edition, at Tati Space Photography Center
CATEGORY 2: SIGLE SHOT
Author: Dustin Blochmann
Country: France
Title: Stairs of Menton
Place: Menton, France
Description: This photograph was taken in late summer 2023 in the french town Menton. A big staircase is leading up to the central cathedral and marks an entry point to the famous old town. It depicts a local woman leaving the church plaza in the direction of the beach line.
Instagram: https://instagram.com/full_time_millennial
Author: Louise Muscat
Country: Malta
Title: Promenade
Place: Nice, France
Description: An ordinary summer afternoon on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France.
Website: https://500px.com/p/louisemuscat
© Louise Muscat “Promenade”
Author: Gaelle S. Warner
Country: France
Title: "The Summer of Paris"
Place: Paris, France
Description: Tourists outside the Louvre in Paris taking photos of the pyramid and posing in front of it.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaelleswarner/
Author: Jahan Golestani
Country: France
Title: Summer Cycling
Place: Strasbourg, France
Description: The photo was taken near the cathedral of Strasbourg on 19 July 2023 with a Canon 70d and a 50mm f 1.2 Canon lens.
Website: https://www.jgolestani.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/JGolestaniPhoto
Author: Marco Claudio Campi
Country: Italy
Title: "Generational Gap"
Place: "Bastioni zone" of Milan
Description: This photograph aims to depict the generation gap, where the attire of two young individuals contrasts with the perspectives of two older persons. The two elderly individuals are separated by a gate, by which I wanted to symbolize the challenge of bridging this generational divide.
Bio: Marco Campi is an amateur street and documentary photographer who uses the camera as a medium to connect with the humanity. He had received various prizes, including being a finalist in the "Travel" category of the 2021 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest, winning the first position in the 2021 New York Photography Award in the COVID-19 category, obtaining the second position in the "Science-Environment" category at the 2020 Tokyo International Photo Awards, and being exhibited in Berlin and Glasgow for the Bartur Photo Award 2021.
Website: https://marcocampi.photoshelter.com
Author: Ali Zolghadri
Country: Iran
Title: Between the Lines
Place: Tehran, Iran
Description: This photo was taken at the Tehran Freedom Tower, which is the most famous city tower. I recorded this photo in the summer and the warmest day of the month.
Website: https://500px.com/p/alizolghadri93
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alizolghadrii/
Author: Artin Darvishi
Country: Iran
Title: "Street Scene"
Place: Yazd, Iran
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artin.darvishii/
Author: Behzad Azimi
Country: Iran
Title: Hijab
Place: Iran birjand bazar
Description: Hijab is a mandatory covering in Iran. In the summer season, it is very difficult for women to bear this type of cover, And in case of not complying with this coverage, it will have unpleasant consequences for them. This photo symbolically represents this social issue and its consequences.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behzad_azimipix/
Author: MehdiSepehri
Country: Iran
Title: Fly
Place: Iran
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mehdiisepehri/
Author: Md Shahadat Hossain
Country: Bangladesh
Title : Golden Hour
Place: Nepal, Kathmandu
Description: Immersed in the serene ambiance of Kathmandu, this stunning shot features Boudhanath Stupa during the golden hour. The warm, golden glow of the setting sun enhances the intricate details of the Buddha stupa's white and gold architecture, creating a tranquil and timeless scene. This golden hour capture adds an extra layer of serenity to the spiritual essence of this iconic site in Nepal.
Website: https://shahadatshetu.weebly.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shahadat.shetu
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shahadat_shetu/
© Shahadat Hossain “Golden hour”
Author: Debarun Biswas
Country: India
Title: Gratitude
Place: Kolkata, India
Description: Gratitude is part of the Series Chhath Puja. Chhath Puja is one of the major festivals of India. The festival lasts for four days and during Chhath Puja prayers are dedicated to the solar deity, Surya, to express gratitude and thankfulness for the gift of life on earth and to request the granting of certain wishes be granted. This auspicious day is observed by praying to Lord Sun and his wife Usha by lighting clay lamps and taking a dip in the holy waters of Ganga.
Instagram : https://instagram.com/debarunbiswas_street
Author: Dibakar Roy
Country: India
Title: City up and down
Place: New Town, Kolkata, India.
Description: City reflection of Kolkata, India during Summer.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbkr.roy/
Author: Ananya Bose Majumder
Country: India
Title: The Summer bath
Place: Kolkata, capital of Westbengal, India.
Description: During the hot summer season in our tropical country India, the temperature stays above 40 degree celsius almost throughout the summer days, during these hot days the river Ganges is a saviour for large amount of people, including this little playful boy, who is enjoying his bath in the soothing and cold water of the river Ganges during the time of sunset after dealing with a striking hot day of summer. His playfulness with the cold water caught my attention and I felt the true relief of that boy, while taking the picture.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bose.anann/
Author: Roman Kosh
Country: Russia
Title: “Splash”
Place: Gelendzhik, Russia.
Website: https://romankosh.su
Author: Tomáš Vlk
Country: Czech Republic
Title: Beauty in the puddle
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Description: the photo was taken shortly after a storm on a day when every few minutes the situation changed from a storm to a sunny summer.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolfography_/
Author: Ilija Stanusic
Country: Croatia
Title: Trogir
Place: Trogir, Croatia
Description: Trogir is a city in Croatia that belongs to the Split-Dalmatia County. The city of Trogir was founded by Greek colonists from the island of Vis in the III century. BC Christ. It was considered the best preserved Romanesque-Gothic city in Central Europe. The castle and tower surrounded by walls form the core of Trogir.
Website: https://www.stanusic.com/
Author: Valentina Bunić
Country: Croatia
Title: The Mediterranean as It Once Was
Place: Vis (town), island of Vis, Croatia
Description: On hot summer days, you will most often meet children on the streets of the city of Vis. The photo shows a typical Viška street, surrounded by stone houses. A black cat sleeps on a white cabinet. The picture is completed by a beautiful girl with a calming gaze.
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/valentina.bunic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tinabunbun/
Author: Rozafa Shpuza
Country: Albania
Title: Romance in Gjuhadol
Place: Shkodër, Albania
Description: In front of the house of Kol Idromeno, there is a bench, where passers-by occasionally sit there, as if they want to take something of the greatness of this multidimensional figure, as if they want to relive the magic of a time, already on the run.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rozafashpuza/
Author: Nataliia Radchuk
Country: Ukraine
Title: "Cat",
Place: Lviv
Description: When I was leaving my house, I saw this cat. He was sitting and waiting for me to take out the camera and take a picture of him.
Instagram: https://instagram.com/n_radchuk
OTHER CATEGORY: PHOTO SERIES
Photography Exhibition THE CITY IN SUMMER (6-th Edition)
Category Photo Series, “THE CITY IN SUMMER” Online Photography Exhibitions 6th edition, at Tati Space Photography Center
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
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.
Instagram| https://www.instagram.com/_mayankmakhija/
Author: Maghsoud Moradi
Country: Iran
Title 1: Kepez
Title 2: Sabalan
Place: Iran Ardabil
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pix_world/
OTHER CATEGORY: SINGLE SHOT
Category Single Shot, “THE CITY IN SUMMER” Online Photography Exhibitions 6th edition, at Tati Space Photography Center