Chinese Weave, by Regine Steenbock, e-published by Eeclectic, printed version published by Textem Verlag, Hamburg, 2020 Chinese Weave is a photography book by Regine Steenbock, an artist and fashion designer who travels and engages in research. We follow her gaze on a country that in the so-called West is permanently present as a myth, a politically dubious player, and an economic threat. At the same time, China seems unfamiliar and difficult

Eravamo terraferma, 2018 Eravamo terraferma revolves around a small community of people living on an Adriatic Sea island, which belonged to the former Yugoslavia, and is today part of Croatia. The island is part of a now-dismissed area owned by Star Oil, a company flourished during Tito’s rule which was abandoned soon after his death and at the outbreak of war in the Balkans in the 1990s. The Star Oil’ s worker

Valentino Barachini, SEMI, photobook published by Origini edizioni, 2019 Origini edizioni is focused on photography, poetry/literature and painting. Each book from Origini is an organic work: every element has a reason to exist in its own ecosystem. They consider their works like living organisms: each is made of organs, tissues, memories, bits of emotions, members and this complexity is the character of the object-organism, as a person. They are not afraid

You can call him another man, published by Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2018 Maria Kapajeva work is focused on photography, video, print making, installations, textile. Focusing on the politics of images projected on all of us without our consent, she often looks at those in movies, advertising, media and she questions how they form our identities and what is left unspoken about it. Kapajeva uses a multidisciplinary approach in her practice

Medusa (working title) This is an ongoing research project, and one that just started, hence its rather chaotic structure. Broadly speaking, it is looking at the gesture of photography as embodied vision. It is about photography as an entanglement of subjects, objects and apparatuses as mutually defining entities. Its core is the specific subject-object gap opened by the gesture of machine-aided observation. It is about mechanisms of recognition and mis-recognition inaugurated b