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Farewell to Elders

Mahmoud Khatab

I spent a day at the Egyptian museum, where it hosted the royal mummies for the last day, forever, before being carried in a parade into another museum, to be shown and scrutinised. To be taken away from everything else they crossed the Nile with. I made my greetings to everything else that bid their farewell, to kings and queens who already departed, who only chose to be buried south of here, who only chose to be carried across the west bank of the Nile, who chose to be buried into the afterlife. Who saw the intimate writings on their walls something only their souls will recognise and recall in their coming rebirth.

Somewhere in Africa

Brigitte Bourger

Figures in motion - from a series on lives by the sea.

Teoswa

Yimin Chen

Born in the steel labyrinth of Shenzhen, I felt little belonging to its restless skyline. Instead, I was drawn to the villages where human warmth lingers, where fading traditions still breathe. Teoswa is a journey into the ancestral echoes of his mother's hometown - the Teochew region of Guangdong - and an intimate search for the meaning of home.

The Cube

Orestis Ilias

Raw marble from Pedeli's Quarry outside Athens - source of the Parthenon. Here it sits, ready to rebuild the city.

Book of Days

Alvin Ng

Through the alchemy of hand-manipulated photographs, I breathe life into ancient verses, revealing their profound essence and forging a harmonious fusion of ancient wisdom and contemporary vision. Inspired by Ovid's Book of Days, Alvin's works suggest a hidden magic beneath the surface of our everyday world. Each image invites us to go beyond the surface, where ancient wisdom and myths speak through contemporary vision.

Torre San Giovanni

Murray Ballard

A wreck of a migrant boat in Salento, southern Italy. From Ballard's series Ghosts in the Field, exploring how the region is being reshaped by an ecological crisis, tourism, and old local folklore, this work speaks to today's societal issues where leisure and crisis can sit alongside each other.

Of All The Wild Paths

Claire Amaouche

I wandered from place to place, from solitude to solitude, trying to grasp their hidden essence. Little by little, it seemed to me that it was not nature itself - eternal, wild, impenetrable - that I was drawing near, but the shifting reflection of my own drifting, and the void at the heart of my existence. Of All The Wild Paths speaks to our relationship with ourselves and the landscape. Even in the wilderness there is evidence of those who came before. Through painted silhouettes Claire traces that connection between us, the landscape, and our predecessors. Her figures appear - almost ghostly - hinting at the ethereal connection between past and present.

Transitions

Fabio Pelinga

Metamorphosis

Claudia Fuggetti

Inspired by the notion that the ecological crisis is a crisis of perception, of how we experience the world around us. Metamorphosis invites us to reconsider our relationship with nature and to experience it as a living entity. Throughout the series, Claudia plays with perceptions of reality and fiction. The use of colour, perspective and intervention creates ambiguity that encourages new relationships with nature to emerge.

The Vastness

Kim Woo Young

The desert in cold light. An uneasy relationship between the fleeting and the permanent, the natural and the human.

Between Sakura

Nick Meek

Visiting nature

Wird

Bruno Hadjih

The wird is a Sufi invocation of incantations and prayers to reach the hal, a temporary state where the self dissolves into divine presence. Hadjih's colours and movements move away from a documentary approach to capture that feeling, and make the mystical appear closer.

Rhodanie

Bertrand Stofleth

Walking the Rhône river from source to sea, Stofleth finds the small and everyday along its grand course.

The Yellow River

Zhang Kechun

Change and permanence along one of civilisation's great rivers.

Bakhtiari - Nomads of Iran

Miriam Stanke

Crossing the Zagros with the Bakhtiari was a glimpse into a way of life where movement is both necessity and freedom, a life guided by trust and a deep harmony with the land. Walking with the Bakhtiari as they make their annual journey between the plains of Khuzestan in Iran and the high summer pastures.

Abstract landscapes, Central Italy

Kevin Scali

Oak and poppies in a blur of colour and movement.

Terra Firma

Parth Gupta

Morning walks in Gurgaon, India, where the city absorbs the surrounding countryside.

Schleswig-Holstein

Nicola Cappellari

Before the sea.

Restricted Images

Patrick Waterhouse

Working with Warlpiri artists in Central Australia, Patrick's black and white photographs of them are transformed through their traditional dot painting.

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Ignacio Infanti

In Light Years

Andrew Owen

Fire and snow are testament to nature's power in California's extreme weather this decade.

Hold A Flower in the Palm of Your Hand

Mario Wong

Microcosm and macrocosm. Inspired by the Buddhist phrase "One Flower, One World", Mario focuses on the inherent harmony and balance found in nature.

Untitled

Stéphanie Coudray

After Summer Passes By

Emilien Chamaillard

Italia on the road

Stefan Giftthaler

Travels through the Baroque.

I AM NOT HERE

Antonio Rosato

Antonio explores the way detachment and alienation shape how we see. The familiar becomes altered and uncertain.

Half Remembered, Half Imagined

Luca Ortis

Cloud Hidden. Working in cyanotype, landscapes are not precisely reproduced but shaped by chance and the act of making.

Untitled

Viktor Kostenko

Eternal time. A search for peace underpins Viktor's practice, inviting a moment of stillness. Working exclusively with analog methods, process and result sit in balance.