Gian Marco Sanna’s project Paradise critiques modern society's relentless pursuit of excess and conformity and how that ultimately enslaves individuals, leading them away from freedom and towards a self-inflicted downfall, while Jalal Shamsazaran’s The Wind Will Take Us Away illustrates the devastating effects of climate change in Sistan and Balouchestan province in Iran, forcing mass migration and instilling profound despair, yet revealing a resilient community.

In her project Tell Me What I’m Remembering, Claire Sunho Lee delves into the fragility and fluidity of memory, sparked by the artist's own vague childhood recollections of a hidden past illness. Eirini Androulaki also addresses illness in her ongoing photo series Didn’t Mean to Keep You Waiting, exploring universal human conflicts surrounding sickness and death.

In Between by Nora Obergeschwandner explores the complex interplay of intimacy, distance, and attachment in human relationships through her portraits of people in their private spaces. 
With his portraits of Armenian men in moments of vulnerability and retreat, Constantine Musinyan challenges dominant archetypes and questions what it means to be a man in his project Shaped By The Stream. Poppy Jessop looks into gender stereotypes in her project Butcheress with her surreal images and questions gendered perceptions.

Dillon Bryant uses collage and constructed images in No Place But Here to explore familial and broader narratives of power, control, and connection within the American West, linking the landscape to his own relationships and historical narratives.

In his project, Framing the Unborn, Sungchul Lee uses his own living space, meticulously taped and rearranged, as a metaphor reflecting on the desensitization and objectification inherent in photojournalism.

The Dice Was Loaded From The Start, the collaborative project by Valeria Calendar and Eleana Konstantellos under the pseudonym Melka Collective, uncovers Mexico City's geopolitical significance as a central stage for US-Soviet intelligence rivalries in the struggle between capitalism and communism during the cold war.

Enjoy issue #16 and we wish you all an inspiring summer, or winter, depending where you are in the world.

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