Simon Beraud

Driven first by my intuition and curiosity, the camera is a way for me to reveal, to find correspondences with places and people, to better understand a time in life. read it.

As a photographer who focuses on the human and the encounter with the subject, I believe that the environment has a significant impact on our emotions, and vice versa.

In this sense, I think photography is an interesting medium to study some psychological aspects of life, to understand how a collective memory can develop within a group of people, a society or a territory.

Lăcră Grozăvescu (b. Caracal, 1996) is a Romanian visual artist whose work centres on the documentation of space and a constant interest in the relationship between man and his environment. Lăcră explores the ability of images to activate individual memories that create a sense of synchronic belonging, the analogy of identity, not to trivialize the uniqueness of the individual, but to prove the appropriateness of human behaviour. To express her vision of the world, the artist uses media such as photography, collage and film. Her work reflects personal experience, analysing themes such as the fear of life and death, memory, time, identity and feminism. In recent years, Lăcră has had various collective/solo exhibitions in Romania, Italy, Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States. Currently, Lăcră lives and works in Bucharest, Romania, and studies Photography & Dynamic Image at the Bucharest National University of Arts.

Maria Gutu

The driving force behind Maria Gutu's (b. 1996) photography is an abiding interest in people, nature and the place where she lives, the Republic of Moldova. The artist is interested in documentary photography, remote places, youth, the notion of home and the relationship between people and the environment in which they live.

Working mainly with black and white medium format film,

Maria explores the personal and universal exchanges found in contemporary portraiture, yet inspired by the old masters of portraiture such as August Sander, Diane Arbus, Rosalind Fox Solomon and Peter Hujar.

I’m Ciro Falciano, I’m 27 and I’m an Italian photographer from Naples. I am interested in hermetic photography and reportage, in search of meanings and connections between my life events. I started in 2014 with commercial photography, but I decided about three years ago to dedicate my work to conceptual photography and storytelling.

Gianmarco Aquilani is a visual artist and photographer born in 2000. He currently lives in Rome, where he graduated in photography and video at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2024.

He uses the medium of photography to research the human figure and self-portrait, exploring the existential condition of the human being and the conflict that arises from the relationship with themselves and with others. He uses various techniques in his research, including digital photography, analogue photography and pinholephotography. Sometimes he also works with archival material such as old family albums or photo trouvées.

Auriane Kolodziej (born 1993) is a self-taught artist based in Paris since April 2020. Although she studied fine arts and graphic design, Auriane has found her artistic voice through her inherent nostalgic and anxious personality. Knowing past was tearing her apart and future will kill her – afraid of living and scared of dying - she decided to work with and on time by suspended it physically, and poetically. Art became a means for her to anchor to the present as a way to accept her own condition; and overall to make us face our own condition too.

Demosthenes Kouros Born in Athens, Greece in 1989. He graduated with a master’s in Architectural Engineering from Technical University of Crete in 2013. Since then, he has worked as a multi disciplinary designer, 3d artist and photographer for various commercial and art projects. In 2021, he co founded “Akra” studio, an architectural practice based in Athens and Chania, Greece. Currently,he is in pre-production of his debut short film. He lives and works between Athens and Crete.

Charlotte Mariën is a photographer based in Belgium.

Challenging reality is a central theme in her work. She uses photography as a medium to transform her vivid imagination into a shareable story. Her work is often set in nocturnal scenes, which she pushes beyond the boundaries of reality to create an alienating universe. Her aim is to revalue imagination and a receptiveness to the other,the strange. The same attitude she considers invaluable in life, to challenge entrenched notions.

Alícia Cohim was born in 1995 in Recife, Brazil. She is a self-taught photographer who seeks to use visual language to interpret the relationship between herself and nature. Alícia incorporates natural elements such as shells, animals and plants into her authorial production, mostly inspired by her own memories of nature, as well as literature, fairy tales, Brazilian folk culture and landscapes from around the world. She has degrees in Advertising (2017) and Photography (2020) and a Postgraduate in Photography and Cinema (2023) from the Catholic University of Pernambuco.

My name is Ira Kostyuk, I'm 26 and I'm a Ukrainian photography student living in Florence.

In 2021 I decided to move to Florence to study photography, which unexpectedly became a very effective therapeutic tool for me.

I mainly take self-portraits, which help me to exorcise negative feelings such as loss, pain and anger.

My latest project "Ти тут"(ty tut) helped me to work out and overcome a traumatic experience I realised I had gone through as a child about two years ago. I tried to recreate some of my memories and feelings in order to exorcise this past experience and accept the fact that I was never responsible for anything that happened.  "Ти тут", which means "You are here" in Ukrainian, is a reminder to all victims of child abuse that their trauma does not define them.

Anna Lehespalu (1983) is an Estonian visual artist. She was born in Tallinn, Estonia. Music has a significant influence on her work. She discovered photography and video as tools to visualise and document her emotions. Her process is intuitive and helps her to research and understand the human mind, particularly her own

Maria Siorba is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece, with an educational background in Fine Arts, Graphic Design & Communication. Her photographic work, deeply inspired and intimately connected to her personal life and experiences, delves into themes such as human connections, challenges of self-expression, mental malfunctions, the nature of understanding and trust and how all these manifest within the visual environment. She explores these subjects from both psychological and existential perspectives, using symbolism and poetic language.

Justina Tulaitė is a self-taught Lithuanian artist who works with analogue photographic techniques, particularly handmade pinhole cameras and the silver gelatine process. She creates mostly self-portraits, choosing as backgrounds non-human dominated areas, whether wild nature, abandoned villages or religious sites. Her work focuses on themes of identity, femininity, the relationship between man and nature, the imaginary and the transcendental.

Georgia Ponirakou was born in October 1983. She studied Biology and Photography. She is a visual artist who works with film and is also a poet.

She uses both colour and black and white film, 35mm, medium format and Polaroid cameras. Her approach is diaristic as she documents her everyday life. She combines prints on different papers and printing methods to create zines and handmade artist books.

She has published five photo zines and two handmade zines in two copies each ("The quarantine diary" December 2020, F32.3, February 2021). Her first photobook about Makronissos (10 limited edition copies, 2019, Depression Era) was presented at the main exhibition of Medphoto Festival 2019, while her second book (Snowbed, 290 limited edition copies, Zoetrope Athens), which presents her personal story of depression, was published in Polycopies (November 2023). She has participated in group exhibitions at the Athens Photofestival (New found self 2017, Drowning land- Breathing water 2019) and several other exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her first solo exhibition "Snowbed" took place in October 2021).

Nathalie Ericson (1991) is an analogue photographer who lives and works in Sweden on a small mountain called Kinnekulle. She studied fine art photography at Gamleby School of Photography and has a bachelor's degree in cultural studies, specialising in art history and visual studies.

Through choreographed self-portraits she creates a poetic world that speaks of the great mystery around us. Her visual work can be seen as an open conversation about the unknown. The photographs can both create wonder and introduce new realities.