UNSEEN 2021

In the book 'Tokyo Debugger', Shinya ARIMOTO intersperses photos of abandoned architectures as traces of past human activities, expanding the scope of his insect series - another world within Tokyo, dominated by the most successful creatives on the planet

The book 'Von Ort zu Ort / The 12 Year Walk) by Thorsten BAENSCH is a long-term project documenting a trek through seven countries. This illustrated travelogue takes the reader on a journey marked by various leitmotifs such as danger, death, and nature

'Charbon Blanc' contains a quiet documentary work, made in the Maurienne Valley, a largely uninhabitable 'Aluminum Valley', French Alps. Teo BECHER brings together traces of human activity and the mountain landscape photographed in the rhythm of walking.

In his photo volume 'The Book of Veles', Jonas BENDIKSEN weaves together two different stories about the Macedonian city that both currently - in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign - and historically represents efforts to create disinformation and chaos.

'Les Chants de L'Asphodele' by Mathias BENGUIGUI draws from history to approach the migration crisis on Lesbos: in 1922 Orthodox Greeks came to the island fleeing Atatürk's Turkey. A space opens up in which landscapes and portraits dialogue with texts.

'Discover' by Francois DAIREAUX contains the story of a journey into the future, revealing the contrasts of a contemporary China in constant construction, with cities growing out of the ground as if by magic. With texts by sinologist Emmanuel Lingot.

The photographic volume 'Contravisiones' by Joan FONTCUBERTA describes the elements that erode, question and defy the logic of the photographic language itself. This selection is about the search for elements that tend to the unreal, magical and dreamlike

In the book 'For my Mother' Ren HANG tells in a playful way about feelings, fears as well as the loneliness of the young generation in China. His works stand for the rebellion against conventions, where nudity and sexual freedom are subject to censorship.

'Mastering the Elements' by Jana HARTMANN juxtaposes alchemical writings, scientific treatises & ethical viewpoints and initiates an interdisciplinary dialogue between visual-artistic, allegorical-alchemical, philosophical as well as scientific viewpoints

This photo volume, 'Leave and Let Us Go', presents a portrait of Iraq. Alexandra Rose HOWLAND combines her own photographs with found images and written testimonies. Her aim is to challenge and expand the ways that geopolitical events are communicated.