Features | Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV}

Toru Ukai | From the drifting islands

“From the drifting islands“ represents the situation of Tokyo after the earthquake in Japan.
Since that day, surprising disperse from the authorities and the center is silently going on in the depths of this big city. We no longer believe in any official authorities.
On the other side, it seems that people now feel that things after ’3.11′ are different from what they were before, although we are leading as quiet a life as before. We, perhaps, have a bad premonition that full-scale calamities will start to fall on us in no distant future. Continue Reading →

José Luis Abalo | Luchadores

“A world of revenge, honor and glory. Enter the vision of José Luis Abalo. A native of Venezuela, he devoted his photographic efforts to the documentation of Lucha Libre – Mexican and South American wrestling. His photography manages to be humorous, dark, and startling in the same moment.
His photo-book, Luchadores, will be a ticket to the front row of a wrestling match that will surprise you in its ferocity.”
—Donovan Ortega

By pre-ordering the “Luchadores“ photo book, you can support the publishing process of José Luis Abalo. Continue Reading →

Callum Ross

“Callum Ross’s untitled images give nothing away whilst telling us everything we need to know.
The places that feature in the West series evoke our curious desire to know where the places are:
west… west of where? The answer is not important in that these are less about places and more about the events occurring within the landscape. What is most apparent about these images is their transience of their sense of this is really one moment in an ongoing succession moments. Continue Reading →

Michela Palermo | My Broken World

“On November 23rd 1980 at 7.34 P.M. the earth shook for ninety seconds in the Irpinia valley, an area of the Campania region in Italy. Ninety seconds to kill 2.998 people, tear the house away to 280.000, change the geography of the lands and produce illusions that where rapidly deluded: the area, among the poorest in southern Italy, saw suddenly interrupted the already difficult process of development. More than thirty years after the event that marked a “before” and “after” in the south of Italy’s history, Michela Palermo chose to weave her personal story with that of this land.

My Broken World (2011) is a tale told through images of a world that has crushed into pieces, of a land crossed by deep cracks and unsewn tears, of the suspended lives of who was stuck in a motionless time.
My Broken World is a view on the unexpected results of an earthquake that shook the earth like a revolution: broadening horizons, liberating energies, creating new networks, discussing certainties. Continue Reading →

Alex Rose | I didn’t sign up for this

I didn’t sign up for this is a project based around recovering from an illness. I developed blood clots on the left hand side of my body and many were close to my vital organs. I fell ill while I was on holiday in Berlin and the language barrier meant at times, it was impossible to ask for help. Whenever I would hear footsteps approaching my room, I would always think that it was someone coming to tell me bad news. Being away from home, I grew fearful of my surroundings in the hospital and this project is a result of me returning home to Ireland with a fresh outlook on things and rediscovering my environs and also my personal relationships with my partner, family and friends. Continue Reading →

Ruth Dudley-Carr | The Heads

My work is a visual diary, exploring historical events and memories, mixed with fictionalized stories. The body of work I present you, titled “The Heads”, is an opportunity for the viewer to wander through my psyche, using mirrors, reflections, and at times seeming aquatic, in an attempt to lead the viewer down a path that is ultimately their own.
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Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Pleated curtain"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Sky with balloon"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Electric heater"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Sun through the thicket"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Elevator door"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Matted grass"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Wall illusion"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "Cord crossing the floral carpet"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm, "13 holes and 1 wire"

Collin Avery | Remain Calm

My photographs are about a particular process of observation which I acquired during adolescence. As a child, I was afraid of confrontation, so as a way to escape difficult mental and physical situations I had designated hiding zones located throughout the house and yard where I could disappear. Continue Reading →

Rafał Milach | 7 Rooms | "Yekaterinburg"

Rafał Milach | 7 Rooms | "Stas: What I like best about Russia is myself"

Rafał Milach | 7 Rooms | "Lera Stas’ wife / Krasnoyarsk"

Rafał Milach | 7 Rooms | "Vasya’s wife Jana, Yekaterinburg"

Rafał Milach | 7 Rooms

Opening: Friday, 25 May 2012, 7 pm
Exhibition: 26 May – 22 July 2012
C/O Berlin

The more I tried to understand Russia, the more lost I became. Russia is like a planet of its own.” Rafał Milach

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Martin Cregg | The Photo Course

‘The Photo Course’ is a project which explores the environment of a Photographic Course in Dublin.
I look for the energetic ‘imprint’ from teaching and learning photography against the dead wood of the empty institutional environment.
The work is also about subtle and ephemeral micro-events which happen in the duration of a day, a week, a year, which become part of the history of the building. As we move forward we create and we construct. Continue Reading →

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Deborah Parkin

My passion for photography started in earnest with the birth of my son. I had always enjoyed the photograph as an object but with his arrival came the need to record our lives. After the birth of my daughter I found that I was photographing as a way of exploring my own childhood memories as well as using it to document our lives. Photography was now becoming a means of expressing myself artistically.

In my photography I have always been drawn to the theme of childhood, whether it has been recreating my own personal memories, making images of my children and recording their childhood or working with children using ancient photographic processes.

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