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Jitka Ertelová (Czech Republic)

Iam a 35-year-old single mother who lives in Chodov, a small town in the Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic. In 2016, I graduated with a master´s degree in English and American literature from the Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. Following my graduation, I began to work at a law firm. 

My passion for photography began after undergoing the final eye surgery in 2007. I am still lazy-eyed and have astigmatism and high myopia, but thanks to the procedures, I wake up without the urge to find glasses, put them on to be capable of seeing the world around me. Years later, I still recall observing objects, nature, people, and everything I could, for a long time, feeling as if a brand new world opened for me to explore. The need to capture my new reality made me buy my first camera, spending more time paying attention to the smallest details, the way light changes spaces and the vibes of objects perceived. I changed the camera, but my enthusiasm and approach remained the same. I do not look for beauty to capture. I do not crave to be among crowds in fancy destinations. Exploring inner peripheries, elevating ordinary objects to things worthy of attention, conveying emotions I feel when I am behind the camera, ready to capture my new world – that is my goal.

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Juno Seunghui Joo is an award-winning South Korean photographer who works in between South Korea and the United Kingdom. Juno explores various issues surrounding humanity through tableau photography. These may include relationships, communication, traditions, and cultural heritage. Her work is eclectic in its subject matter, ranging from very fundamental human problems to highly personal matters. Juno's work is characterised by the use of various mise-en-scènes and metaphors, creating a cinematic storytelling structure.

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Kalo Chianetta was born in a Sicilian town in spring 2005.

He immediately became immersed in the world of photography and videomaking, and never moved away from it. Through his work, he explores the concept of beauty, fusing portraits and landscapes into a single, large diary that reflects his inner self.

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Guilhem Touya is a photographer based in Paris.

He develops a singular artistic universe during solitary nocturnal excursions into remote natural landscapes.

His images echo a childhood spent close to nature, and a teenage fascination with science fiction.

Influenced by his years working in advertising agencies, his work also reflects a taste for refined, minimalist aesthetics.

By blurring temporal boundaries between reality and fiction, he invites us to reflect on the ephemeral nature of our civilization and our relationship with the living world.

All his photographs are created entirely in-camera, using artificial lighting and colored gels, with no post-production recoloring.

This series has been published in the International Photography Festival les Mesnographies in France.

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Milica Macanović was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1990. She is a visual artist, whose work explores the emotional layers of intimacy, memory, and identity in the context of digital and physical space. With a formal education in architecture (M.Arch, University of Belgrade), she approaches image-making with both structural sensitivity and personal vulnerability.

Her artistic language blends photography, self-portraiture, drawing, and text, often moving through themes of (auto)reflection, fragmented communication, and the poetics of absence. Her recent project Weird Fish is You — a two-year conceptual exploration of virtual connection and emotional presence — was awarded a solo exhibition at the Tivat Photo Days festival in 2025 and continues to evolve across multiple formats.

Milica’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Portugal, Norway, and the United States. She is a member of ULUPUDS (The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia) and with the status of an independent artist. 

Her images are often quiet, suggestive, and emotionally charged — documents of both inner states and imagined encounters.

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Anna Haillot (b. 1995) is an artist and author. She lives and works between Le Havre and Nice, in France. Somewhere between contemplation and surrealism, Anna Haillot's work explores a poetic world where the image becomes sensitive matter. A multi-disciplinary artist, she combines photography, text, publishing and installation to explore the links between body, cosmos and narrative. She works with materiality, printing her images on a variety of papers and supports, as close as possible to her sensations. Her works, nourished by dreams, natural phenomena and intimate experiences, draw hybrid spaces traversed by trouble, gentleness and metaphysics.

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Mauro Splendore (1986) is an Italian photographer.

Student of the Meshroom school of Pescara, with several courses and a masterclass on the "photographic project" with Michele Palazzi. He moves in the field of fiction and docufiction investigating the complex relationship between man and nature.

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Dominik Scharf // Erdi

36 years old

Based in Bochum // Germany

Photographer and Art Director for audiovisual media

Hello, my name is Dominik Scharf, but my friends call me Erdi. Somehow, I stumbled into the world of media and can’t seem to get out. I learned graphic design at 18, studied photography at 21, and now I work as an art director for audiovisual media. My interest has always been in visual design — both in photography and videography.  I am a photographer with a passion for experimenting with light, nature, and new perspectives. Mesmerizing Glow is my passion project, which shows that much of what we consider "real" or "natural" depends on our own perception and interpretation. It invites viewers to see nature in a new way, recognize its fragility, and reflect on how light, darkness, and absence shape the world we experience.

My intention is not to point fingers – but to create a space where perception, empathy, and awareness can grow. For me, it’s an attempt to encounter the seemingly familiar with renewed attention and to understand nature not merely as a backdrop, but as a living counterpart.

With this project, I move between artistic photography, a deep ecological consciousness, and a personal, almost philosophical reflection on our reality. In a time shaped by global crises, digital overstimulation, and growing environmental uncertainty, I aim to offer a moment of stillness through my visual language – a pause, a sense of wonder, an honest dialogue with what surrounds us, but in a different way. To make the familiar feel unfamiliar again in order to rediscover it. The world is crazy, a flash flood of color and chaos. Yet we all search for a spark of meaning, but nothing is true and everything is possible.

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Albina Frolova was born in 1999 in Ukraine and is based in Serbia.

Having been interested in photography since childhood, she began attending various courses and lectures on the subject during her teenage years. However, she turned to surrealism and conceptualism through independent practice. As well as photography, she works with digital and analogue collage techniques and conceptual approaches involving the manipulation of printed photographs.

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Shadi Nadimi, a 26-year-old documentary photographer, was born in 1998 and raised in Bojnourd, Iran. Currently living in Tabriz, Nadimi’s journey into photography began as a quiet way to observe and record the world around her, especially the small, intimate moments of everyday life. Her family often appears in her work, as their presence helps her explore personal history within a wider cultural context.

Having originally studied Carpet Design for her bachelor’s degree, Nadimi is now a master’s student in Carpet Research.

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Aram Tanis was born in South Korea and now works in the Netherlands. In his work, he explores and researches people and societies based on the cities they build and inhabit. In his work, urban landscapes, people, animals, and objects serve as symbols representing what happens in our world and how we adapt to change. 'Isolation' and 'anonymity' are important themes in Tanis's work. They also make people aware of things they often overlook. Tanis exhibited all around the world, including at Kunstverein für Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf / DE), Siemens Sanat (Istanbul / TR), Frontviews (Berlin / DE), Gallery Korea (New York / USA), Ginza Graphic Gallery (Tokyo / JP), Witte de With (Rotterdam / NL), Misulsegye Gallery (Seoul / KR), and Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt / DE). As well as exhibiting his work, Aram Tanis also curates shows. He also creates photo books and works on assignments.

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Dmitry Yurchenko was born in Riga, Latvia. After graduation from the Faculty of Civil Enginering and worked for a few years in this field moved to the South of Spain. Since 2010 live in Estonia: "For me, the process of photographing is the repetition of the same questions over and over: "What is this? What am I looking at?? What's happening around me???" Why does my peripheral vision suddenly react to some external trigger? I try to understand what sets off the chain of events that leads to a photograph being born. Who knows - maybe if I ever find the answer to that question, photography will no longer interest me, but for now, it's a fascinating pursuit. It's like a game of dice: instead of combinations of numbers, it's combinations of visual images that you sift through year after year, hoping to find a true treasure, to hit the jackpot".

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Fatima El Hajjaji, born in Morocco in 1999, found her life taking a significant turn at a young age when her family relocated to Italy. Raised in a bilingual environment, she was exposed to two

distinct cultural influences that profoundly shaped her identity. Arabic instilled in her a deep capacity to listen and observe, while Italian fostered the confidence to express her thoughts and

opinions. As she navigated between these contrasting worlds, Fatima became a bridge between them, acting as a mediator of sorts.

Through the lenses of photography and documentary filmmaking, she seeks to articulate an intrinsic desire to depict the complexities of identity and belonging to a defined place. Her work is driven by a need to narrate the story of her own torn feelings as a child in diaspora.

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Lin Xue (b. 1995, China) is a photographer currently living in Oslo, Norway, and Guangzhou, China. He gained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Oslo in 2024. His work explores themes of alienation and transience, often carrying a sense of nostalgia. Lin Xue experiments with the materiality of different mediums to investigate the diverse possibilities of visual art.

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Daria Kultysheva was born in a small town called Votkinsk in 1998. When she was five years old, her family moved to the city of Tver. Daria is both an artist and a photographer. Art plays a significant role in her life, as it enables her to comprehend the world from different perspectives and to reveal her emotions to others. For Daria, both photography and drawing serve as a medium to express her inner feelings, which are often ineffable.  Throughout her creative journey, Daria has been greatly influenced by the people she has met and global situations in the world. She often reflects on what is happening to her and tries to express it through her art. Daria frequently communicates with people and listens to their stories. Despite occasionally feeling apprehensive, Daria always pushes herself to try new things, which has led to her current success. She devotes significant time to practicing her craft. Daria studied at the Art College named after A.G. Venetsianov and became a ceramist and teacher by profession. During her studies, she participated in international exhibitions and was named student of the year several times. Daria's work has been exhibited in other countries as well, including at NFT exhibitions in Beijing (798 Art Zone/798艺术 区(Double Fat) Enjoy Art museum - art District 798, GuanTang Museum, 2021), New York— World Trade Center.

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Natalia Jacott

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Maya Sharpe is a photographer based in Vancouver, Canada. They are deeply intertwined with the idea that the world is never still. Everything is in constant motion, unexpectedly morphing and shaping who we are. Through their photography, they navigate these endless shapes, forms, and feelings, allowing the camera to be a voice when words are too difficult to speak. Printing. Scratching. Tearing. Slicing. Degrading. Re-photographing. Repeat. This cycle is their way out. Their way of seeing. Their way of understanding. Their therapy. The body may be the visual subject and guide but what lies deeper and more importantly under the surface are the conversations being called at. The skin of our bodies, the discomfort and the emotions wrapped up in our existence begin to open up the dialogue surrounding mental health and what it is like to live in this skin we call a body.