URBAN2017 International Photo Awards: Winners Announced

After a great summer of international exhibit previews, we are finally happy to announce the winning pictures and portfolios of URBAN 2017 Photo Awards, promoted by Italian art association dotART together with Photographers.it, Sprea Fotografia (media partner) and Stampa-Su-Tela.it (main partner).

prism #26: BODY // Submission call is now open // Deadline: 20 October 2017

SUBMISSION CALL FOR ISSUE #26

THEME : BODY

DEADLINE: 20 OCTOBER 2017

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TIFF Festival : RESOURCES kicks off in Wroclaw, Poland on the 7th of September

TIFF Festival: Resources / 7–17 September / Wroclaw, Poland

The 7th edition of the TIFF Festival kicks off next week in Wroclaw, Poland rendered around a broad theme of "Resources".

This time the organisers decided to draw a question mark to a thought that a lot of artists are usually placed upon - how do we operate and develop our creative self artistically, being limited to a certain amount of resources, or a lack of such, that of financial nature especially.

prism #25.13: 'Stacking' by Marieke Gelissen

Stacking

by Marieke Gelissen 

An art magazine, a lifestyle magazine, a photo magazine... Marieke handles any magazine as material: a collection of paper pages, filled with text, images and advertisements.

prism #25.12: 'Seeds From the Zoo' by Bryony Dunne

Seeds From the Zoo

by Bryony Dunne

“Documentation — or even a contemplative pursuit — is met with a degree of antagonism where public space is almost inaccessible in Cairo. The clamor of the streets have become perpetual and monumental, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to be present as a recorder of things.”  (Sara El Adl, Curator of Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.)

prism #25.11: 'Soffice' by Chiara Salvi

Soffice

by Chiara Salvi 

Soffice analyses artist sister’s knee injury and her wounds both scientifically and emphatically. It explores faulty physique, healing process and rehabilitation.

prism #25.10: 'Hidden Dimensions' by Anna Yeroshenko

Hidden Dimensions

by Anna Yeroshenko

Hidden Dimensions is a series of images of architecture converted into photographic sculptures. This work serves to transform the viewer’s vision of what otherwise would be unnoticed, ordinary buildings. While the urban development shortens the lifespan of contemporary architecture, these utilitarian structures on the outskirts of cities seem to endure the time. 

prism #25.9: 'Autobahn der Freiheit' by Mateusz Skóra

Autobahn der Freiheit / Motorway of Freedom

by Mateusz Skóra

Images and Text: Mateusz Skóra

Motorway of Freedom is the official name of the road that connects Berlin and Warsaw. It consists of two parts: the longer one cuts through almost the entire Poland, while the shorter section runs across eastern Germany. Physically, the whole road is nearly 600 km of concrete construction.

Are you ready for a 'Disclosure'? As Part of #SHOWMEYOURUFO Project

Exciting news! prism's chief editor, Karol Liver, is invited to co-curate #showmeyourufo, a larger project organised by Fresh From Poland, alongside with few other photographic initiatives, visual art curators and editors, with a mission to conduct a complex online/offline visual studies on UFO phenomena. What an amazing project to be part of! Submission call is now open!

International Open Call for the #SHOWMEYOURUFO Project

Are we alone? Are we being watched? Who created us and what is the purpose of our lives? Is there a God, or do we live in the Matrix? Or maybe we are just an outcome of the Aliens’ experiment? 

#SHOWMEYOURUFO is a new exciting project exploring the UFO phenomena - topic that  has always been mysterious and appealing to people around the world. Creators of the concept want to join forces with artists from all over the world to create an archive of contemporary visual representations related to UFO and alien conspiracy theories. Project, organized by Fresh From Poland in cooperation with Paper Beats Rock and FotoBzik, is an opportunity for artists to participate in an inspiring initiative  and to be displayed online and offline alongside participants from all over the world. 

URBAN2017 Photo Awards Submission Call is Now Open

Submission call for URBAN 2017 Photo Awards, International contest organized by Italian cultural association dotART together with media partners Photographers.it and Sprea Fotografia, is now open.

prism #25.8: 'Inner Self' by Anne-Sophie Guillet

Inner Self

by Anne-Sophie Guillet

In the image of the personalities they are trying to represent, in the image of the indecision and trouble which emanates from them, the portraits of Anne-Sophie Guillet try to achieve—with the greatest possible fidelity—the undefinable which lives within each subject. Subjects who, with all of the intermediary space-time between themselves and the photographer, agreed to pose.

prism #25.7: Susu Laroche's Film Stills

Susu Laroche's

film stills

Digital and hand printed 16mm stills of hand developed 16mm film, transferred to digital. Laroche works with hand developed analogue film from a studio/darkroom in London. She has been working with 16mm since 2010. 

These films portray peaks of melodrama in heightened emotional states during situations of crisis and conflict. Her work is mostly inspired by the writing of JG Ballard and Georges Bataille. 

prism #25.6: 'Disappearance' by Tomasz Laczny

Disappearance

by Tomasz Laczny

The feeling of loss and longing are the main theme of autobiographical photobook of Tomasz Laczny, who based his story on his own experiences while gradually losing the contact with his children after divorce. 

Tomasz Laczny guides the viewer through a dream world built of autobiographical and fictional elements. Composed with elements of joy, sadness, humor, melancholy and sometimes horror with expressionistic twist the author creates the world where issues of identity, belonging and connection are being questioned. 

prism #25.5: 'Wooden Box of Photographs' by Oksana Parafeniuk

Wooden Box of Photographs

by Oksana Parafeniuk

I open the big wooden box of old family photographs and carefully pick ones taken more than twenty years ago in the town of Korostyshiv, one hundred kilometers west from Kyiv, Ukraine. For me it is a place of very intimate family and memory attachment. My mother was born there. It has always been a place where our family members would gather, sit around the table and tell stories from our family history. Korostyshiv is where my roots are, where I spent a lot of time thinking about memory and connection to the place, and the importance of handing down family reminiscences and significant events from generation to generation.

prism #25.4: 'Trespassing' by Ole Brodersen

Trespassing

by Ole Brodersen

The forces of nature are natural phenomena always present in a landscape, beyond human control. Ole Brodersen‘s work is dedicated to unveiling this presence by exploring encounters between man-made objects and untouched nature. 

prism #25.3: 'Property of the New York Public Library Picture Collection' by Dana Stirling

Property of the New York Public Library Picture Collection

by Dana Stirling

The New York Public Library Picture Collection caches over one million original prints, photos, posters, graphics, magazines, illustrations and texts sorted into thousands of binders, each with a specific category and subject. One binder, “UFOs”, claims to hold and archive our cultural interest in the existence of extraterrestrial life. A binder that was composed into this book. 

prism #25.2: 'Paracosm' by Annie Briard

Paracosm

by Annie Briard

In the not so distant past, there was a beautifully poetic vision theory that proclaimed the eye to contain a small crystal, carefully shaping the light so that it may bring us illumination.

Much is still left to our imagination when determining what we see. Our vision captures as well creates, fills-in or otherwise completes what we perceive; one need only look for the blind spots in the center of the sightline. Like crystals, our eyes mediate light and what we see.

prism #25.1: 'Lost Place' by Kamil Sleszynski

Lost Place

by Kamil Sleszynski

‘Lost Place’ tells the story about Metanoia, the Catholic Center for Education and Addiction Therapy. The facility helps young people addicted to drugs and alcohol. Located in the Knyszynska Forest in Poland, it occupies the former administration building Agroma factories which, in the past, produced agricultural machinery, home appliances, and likely also weapons.

URBAN2017 International Photo Award's Call for Submission and Jury Panel Announced

URBAN 2017 Photo Awards, international contest organized by Italian cultural association dotART together with media partners Photographers.it and Sprea Fotografia, will accept entries from Tuesday, February 14th, 2017.

Now in its eighth edition, URBAN sees every year thousands of participating pictures and hundreds of participants from all over the world. It is an always growing international contest, one of the very few that goes "over the boundaries" of Internet offering to photographers real visibility through dozens of international photo exhibitions. Only in 2016 URBAN realized 32 exhibitions displaying about 700 pictures. Behind it all, there is always the pursue of enhancement of photographic talent and quality.