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Americaville 35 Selections

Americaville 35 Selections

Aug 10, 2022 Spotlight

Photographs made throughout the years. Americaville is a constant observation sometimes extracted from other more specific documentary projects.

Brazilian photographer Júlia Pontés receives The Current's 2022 Artist-in-Residence Award + Visura's 1st 2022 Grant for Visual Journalists

Brazilian photographer Júlia Pontés receives The Current's 2022 Artist-in-Residence Award + Visura's 1st 2022 Grant for Visual Journalists

Aug 7, 2022 Spotlight

Visura in partnership with The Current , a center for contemporary art, is delighted to announce Brazilian-Argentinian investigative artist, photographer, researcher, and activist Júlia Pontés as the recipient of the 2022 The Current's Artist-in-Residence Award & Visura's 1st 2022 Grant for Visual Journalists. This..

Billis Negra

Billis Negra

Aug 26, 2020 Spotlight

Billis Negra Es un ensayo visual sobre la melancolia en un paralelismo entre lo privado y la historia de una playa que desapareció por la promesa de prosperidad. Billis Negra It is a visual essay on melancholy in a parallelism between the private and the story of a beach that disappeared for the promise of prosperity.

Days of Future Passed

Days of Future Passed

Aug 6, 2022 Spotlight

We have created technologies to see and change smallest molecules, we get images of galaxies from 40 million light years away, every day we discover in the depths of the sea, the earth and the universe previously unknown and at the same time we destroy both our and most other organisms basis of life. Like a last gasp just before collapse, we..

In the south of Kurdistan

In the south of Kurdistan

Sitara Thalia Ambrosio

Aug 4, 2022 Spotlight

Since 1992, Turkey has repeatedly attacked the region militarily. According to Turkey, the official targets are the PKK's bases. However, the attacks also repeatedly result in civilian casualties. The two parties, the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), are loyal to Turkey and have a lot of..

Current Practices

Current Practices

Oct 26, 2020 Spotlight

Breaking the Girl

Breaking the Girl

Oct 27, 2016 Adolescence Art Children Discrimination Documentary Editorial Environmental Family Fear Feminism Fine Art Gender Health/Healing Hope Multimedia Personal Photography Portraiture Short Film Spotlight Teens Youth

Breaking the Girl, visually investigates the emotional and physical connections people have to their bodies and minds during times when their bodies fail them. The images explore the physical manifestations of anxiety, hope and the pervasive sentiment that the subjects are inhabiting a space not quite their own. I seek to examine the alienation..

Life in Plastic

Life in Plastic

Apr 4, 2019 Spotlight

Life in Plastic While Plastic pollution has become a dangerous global problem, for some, recycling means the difference between a meal or going hungry every day. Poverty, unemployment seeking better opportunities far from their homes and often drug dependence has caused many people to turn to the urban informal economy for survival; a life that..

Interview with al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine

Interview with al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine

farras abdelnour

Aug 3, 2022 Spotlight

Thrilled to have recently had an interview with the contemporary art magazine al-Tiba9! 10 Questions with Farras Abdelnour | Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Farras Abdelnour’s fine art explores the serenity of sparsity and the absence of clutter, be it visual, acoustic, or mental. By and large, his work is influenced by his mathematical..

My Left Eye

My Left Eye

Dec 5, 2021 Spotlight

Kalaripayattu, the Genesis of Martial Arts

Kalaripayattu, the Genesis of Martial Arts

Nov 4, 2019 Spotlight

Considered as the pioneer of all martial arts, Kalaripayattu (kalari meaning school and payattu fight) has gained back its notoriety in the last few years. Despite existing for around 5,000 years, this martial art from the Kerala region, in the south of India, almost disappeared during the British occupation because of its lethal blows. Nowadays,..

On Assignment for The AT&T Performing Arts Center

On Assignment for The AT&T Performing Arts Center

Chris Rusanowsky

Jul 29, 2022 Spotlight

This coverage was a commissioned assignment with AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas. Children from West Dallas attend a music event sharing the sounds and traditions of Hawaiian music and dance.

Constitution Summer Camp in Idaho

Constitution Summer Camp in Idaho

Argo Collective

Jul 27, 2022 Spotlight

Photographed by Natalie Behring—these images show scenes from a Constitution Summer Camp in Idaho Falls July 27, 2022. The four day camp was designed to educate kids 7-12 about constitutional principles and featured singing patriotic songs, learning about the Bill of Rights, and decoding the language of the constitution.

The Beauty of the Art of Architecture

The Beauty of the Art of Architecture

Jul 24, 2022 Architecture Art Documentary Journalism Photography Spotlight

The art with the classical genre of architecture and its forms of expression is the focus of Michael Nguyen's series. The artwork itself is characterized by the interaction of content and form. Nguyen's photography is not architectural photography commissioned by architects or the building industry. The buildings are not photographed in..

Bugs Unlocked

Bugs Unlocked

Jul 5, 2019 Documentary Environment Macro Photography Spotlight Travel Wildlife

We are the Insects Unlocked project at the University of Texas at Austin. Based in the UT insect collection at Brackenridge Field Laboratory, part of the Department of Integrative Biology, we produce insect imagery for the public domain.

Great River

Great River

Stephany Hildebrand

Apr 9, 2022 Spotlight

Up until recently, the common narrative on the Upper St. Lawrence River was, "You probably shouldn't swim in it." and "Don't eat the fish!". Within settler history, this region was a major hub for industries such as GM, Domtar, and Alcoa (among others). In the 80’s, a review of available data led the..

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