We Were Born Before the Wind is the first monograph of Portuguese photographer Henri Prestes. Images of his hometown portray the artist's roaming in the dark through small villages, mountains, and desolate fields in winter. Highlighted by dim and cinematic aesthetics, Prestes escapes the concreteness...
Diana Aker Discarded Bio I have been photographing since 2013, my method is improvisation, searching for hidden human images, there is something between clownish and elegant in everyone, and it can be shown as if people always walk like that. I like to do makeup and costumes myself. Web:...
Henriette SiemonsDiscardedBio I am a Dutch-Italian research based visual artist living in Rotterdam. Within my practice I mainly focus on reframing stories using a mixture of archival material, text, and photography. The themes I work with are forgotten stories, the collective memory and collective assumptions, mysteries, female...
Compendium Book Review Artist: Roberto Kusterle Photobook: Compendium Publisher: studiofaganel Specs: Hardcover, 348 pages, 230 x 320 mm Price: €50 Roberto Kusterle was born in Gorizia in 1948, where he still lives and works. His artistic career spans already to the seventies, when he started with paintings and installations. Kusterle's oeuvre is...
Discarded XXX Issue 1 is out! In 2021, Discarded has launched a new section – XXX – dedicated to a new vision of contemporary erotic photography curated by photographer and writer Linda Zhengová. XXX features a unique selection of photographs that present a novel vision of...
Imagine having the platform to share a story with the audience but there is one restriction – you only have 16 pages. This seems to be the concept of the Turin-based photographer Daniel Escoffier (b. 1997) as recently, he founded a zine – Sun 16...
Noemi Comi: alternation between reality and fiction mixed with calabrian popular tradition Shhh: Southern high hidden histories Alessia Rollo READ ITALIAN VERSION More about the artist: IG: @noemicomi Web: noemicomi.com Noemi Comi (1996) is a conceptual and documentary photography born in Catanzaro (Italy). She studied photography at Laba (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti)...
Something else Elena Krashkova Stories It was initially intended as a study of sexuality in Russia, but as I was shooting the project, the focus has shifted. For me, the project is equal parts “about people” and very personal. I came in contact with the problems of “the...
You see rocks, I see islansThe poetic vision of Chiara ArturoShhh: Southern high hidden historiesAlessia RolloREAD ITALIAN VERSION More about the artist:IG: @chiararturoWeb: chiararturo.com«Chiara Arturo's photography is a way of thinking about reality from a geographical perspective. The artistic act as a means of cataloguing and investigating...
Prosféro Elena Zottola Stories About the Project Prosféro is a staged photography work born within the Centro di Fotografia Indipendente and resulting from a personal research on topics of anthropological interest such as memory, belonging, daily life and material culture. The project dialogues with the Puntino ad Ago, a...