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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Loinnir
Moving through the Greek islands and Athens, K. Yeung observes how place is made desirable, inhabited, and claimed.
Written by K. Yeung
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
Where the water used to fall
Deana Kotiga reflects on her Croatian homeland through her accompanying photographic project, tracing how environmental change unsettles memory, place and belonging.
Written by Deana Kotiga
The Coast And Divine Water
A collection of poems by Mira Hagiwara Gupta exploring water as a space of intimacy, spirituality and emotional transformation across love, memory and ritual.
Written by Mira Gupta
Omi Ni Polish
A poem by Abdulrazaq Balogun exploring water as a force of creation, healing and destruction, reflecting on its role within memory, ritual and human violence.
Written by Abdulrazaq Balogun
Tukur Ridwan’s Poems
A series of poems by Tukur Ridwan exploring water through spirituality, ritual and marine imagery, tracing the sea as a site of rebirth, longing and transformation.
Written by Tukur Ridwan
Omi L’eko
This photo essay explores water as a living force that shapes identity, survival, and memory in Lagos.
Written by Ayodeji Ayodele
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
Water Damage
A personal reflection on generational trauma, memory and healing, using damaged family archives and submerged film to explore water as both a force of destruction and renewal.
Written by Sophie Smith
Abandoned in Pakistan
Lina Idrees interviews Tahera Hasan, the founder and director of the NGO Imkaan. They discuss community outreach work, focusing on child adoption.
Written by Lina Idrees
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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
The Tiger of Mysore
Capturing resistance to the British Empire.
Written by Lina Idrees
Belgium’s Colonial Legacy
Harry Russel explores the colonial roots of Belgium’s Golden Generation.
Written by Harry Russell
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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