UNSEEN 2021

'Icaro' by Irene ZOTTOLA was created from leaves of a found encyclopedia, selected fragments of a novel and photographic prints made in the darkroom with liquid emulsion. The project aims to establish a parallel between bird flight and human life journey.

The first series by Pawel JASZCZUK, 'Sleeping Train', was created in 2004. This small volume contains full-page portraits of sleeping travelers on the Tokyo subway. A great addition to 'Tokyo Compression', 'Subway' (Bruce Davidson) and 'Manhattan Transit'

'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 the documentary photo book 'The Imaginary Republic', Polish photographer Pawel JASZCZUK, with the assistance of manga critic Kaoru NAGAYAMA, who wrote the essay, explores the Japanese penchant for erotic comics in which girls are the main characters.

'Kinderszenen' by Lionel JUSSERET tries to give an insight into the intimacy of autistic children, their way of understanding space and the world. In its conception it's based on the piano work of Robert Schumann, conceived as a 'souvenir for adults'.

The focus of 'Hester' by Kumi OGURO is on scenes with female figures. The compositions are intended to stimulate the imagination and subconscious. Her photographs are a place of stillness where the mind wanders through its book of thoughts and memories.

'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.