Every two years, the MAST Foundation, through the MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work, offers five young international photographers the opportunity to confront issues related to the world of industry and technology, the systems of labor and capital, inventions, developments and the universe of production. The initiative aims to support research activities on the image of industry, the transformations induced in society and in the territory, the role of work for economic, productive and

Laia Abril’s On Rape is a visualisation of the origin of gender-based stereotypes and myths, as well as the failing structures of law and order, that continue to perpetuate rape culture. Abril collates and interweaves compiled testimonies, political proclamations, historical archives, popular and traditional beliefs, as well as society’s structural failures to deal with sexual violence. To avoid feeding the systemic victim-blaming society, Abril switches the visual narrative from the survivors to the

The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers and typesetters. It highlights the print industry’s inequalities and proposes a takeover of the history of the book. Edited by feminist graphic design collective MMS (Maryam Fanni, Matilda Flodmark and Sara Kaaman), Natural Enemies includes several new essays and poems by Kathleen Walkup, Ida Börjel

Time Atlas weaves together images from a variety of sources, from intimate personal archives to Internet imagery, old encyclopaedias, newspapers, guidebooks and manuals. Following an idiosyncratic visual and intuitive logic, Niina Vatanen combines all the different materials creating many new and surprising connections. Inspired by encyclopaedias, Vatanen organizes pictures loosely with thematic categories. She is focusing especially on questions concerning time and our perception of it, and exploring how visual memory, personal experience, and his

In this second volume of the Susan Sontag’s diaries and notebooks, that covers the central part of his life, unfolds a dense kaleidoscope of encounters, journeys, love, lecture, projects and thoughts. A palimpsest of ideas and insights to penetrate the existential and creative laboratory of the author, these diaries represent for the reader a full immersion in one of the brightest minds, intrepid and voracious of the twentieth century, always very mobile and unf