Beach Epiphany
Rodrigo Koraicho is a photographer and visual artist based in São Paulo. Since 2017 he has been developing Beach Epiphany, a long-term photographic investigation into the social and psychological landscape of Miami Beach.
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Lost & Found
Photographer Ryan Blackwell pulls lipsticks, vapes and gloves out of the Thames and lights them like luxury products.
Written by Jai Toor
Two Sides of Madrid
Exploring the chasm between Athletico and Real Madrid.
Written by Jesse Dean-Smith
Loinnir
Moving through the Greek islands and Athens, K. Yeung observes how place is made desirable, inhabited, and claimed.
Written by K. Yeung
Logistics and Leviathan
Freddie Smith explores how both films reveal the hidden violence and scale of global industry, reshaping how we perceive time, labour and the exploitation of the sea.
Written by Freddie Smith
Eau à Eau
A visual project inspired by the Haitian Vodou spirit LaSirenn, to explore water as a metaphor for identity, transformation and feminine strength.
Written by Sophie Ackroyd
The career of a dictator’s son
Exploring the footballing story of Al-Saadi Gaddafi, who was able to play in Serie A due to his father’s connections.
Written by Eli Haidari
Notice the Water You’re Already In
Exploring the relationship between water and attention, considering what our obsession with measurement, productivity, and outcomes has taken from us.
Written by Claudia Neuschulz
The Round Lake
Laila Ghaffar traces how The Round Lake collapses dystopian fiction into present reality, exposing the colonial and political structures driving water scarcity in Pakistan.
Written by Laila Ghaffar
Omi L’eko
This photo essay explores water as a living force that shapes identity, survival, and memory in Lagos.
Written by Ayodeji Ayodele
The Nonchalance of Suicide
Exploring how Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry approaches men's mental health.
Written by Freddie Smith
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La Sape
La Sape is a Congolese sartorial movement and subculture rooted in the reclamation of agency, power and identity.
Written by Ashley Zibiza
Anthea Spivey
Fourth Floor interviews documentary photographer Anthea Spivey to discuss her work, focusing on her project on albinism in Senegal.
Written by Jai Toor
The Tiger of Mysore
Capturing resistance to the British Empire.
Written by Lina Idrees
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Water
Water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom. Few molecules are smaller. Yet we are two-thirds water and require it to live — life as we know it could not evolve without water. This open call gathers photo essays, poetry, film and visual work exploring water as memory, ritual, survival, identity and force.
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Oceanic Birthright
Mira Gupta explores water as a space of memory, politics and healing, tracing the intersections of marine ecology, colonialism and surf culture through Black and Indigenous histories.
Written by Mira Gupta
Tainted Waters
A photo series by Prince El-sha Martey documenting life along Ghana’s polluted rivers, lagoons and coastlines.
Written by Prince El-sha Martey
The Undesirables
In the mid-1940s, hundreds of Chinese seamen were secretly deported from Liverpool.
Written by Jai Toor