As the death industry has a monopoly on traditional ceremonies, from cremation to burial, independent designers are reinventing this crucial stage to meet new social, ecological and spiritual needs. With Tactile Perception, Lisa Merk designs a wooden urn in which dozens of small urns are[...]
Eliseo H. Zubiri is a director, photographer and visual artist. Based in Buenos Aires in Argentina, Eliseo H. Zubiri offers in his images a combination of photographs and digital work that bring a form of surrealism to the scenes. It shows austere and unusual scenes[...]
German photographer Marzena Skubatz lives and works in Germany and Iceland. Particularly interested in places’ identity and their meaning: outdoor and indoor landscapes and the « in between » space. From this research, she is naturally interested in remote and inaccessible spaces. She has decided to go[...]
In her series The Truth is in the Soil, London-based Greek photographer Ioanna Sakellaraki explores the practice of mourning, through her individual story with death. A graduate in photography at the Royal College of Art, her serie looks back at the last community of traditional[...]
Bondage, eroticism and death are the main themes of the photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, born in 1940 in Tokyo. With Between Love and Death: Diary of Nobuyoshi Araki, hosted at the Singapore International Photography Festival in 2018, he reveals a new side of his photographic work.[...]
Sixteen years after his death, Tupac Shakur returns to the stage for a last concert at Coachella. The hologram of the rap icon inaugurates a new bridge between the world of the living and the one of the dead…. Holography was born in the middle[...]
Czech Republic, 200 km from Pragues, in the small village named Lukova, the Church of St. George comes alive day and night, thanks to spectral forms. Draped in white, these plaster ghosts are the work of student Jakub Hadrava. Funded by a campaign launched in[...]
The News Ghost is the first attempt by Londoner Robert Frank Hunter to write, but also to illustrate an entire story. After having designed images of The Jungle Book published by Quarto Press, The New Ghost confirms Robert Hunter as a master of color and[...]
It is in a frantic, but above all emotional race, that Romain Veillon captures, for a moment, the ghosts of the past. In the sandy village of Kolmanskop, the amusement parks of Japan or the schools of Chernobyl, the French photographer testifies the passage of[...]
In the city of Olot, Spain, the lava became mistress of an abandoned building. Behind this incandescent material, lies 10,000 paper fortune teller generally used by children. For the Lluèrnia Festival, a celebration of fire and light, architects David Oliva of SP25 Arquitectura and Anna[...]
Sabine Mirlesse is a Franco-American artist, whose photographic drawn and sculpted stories resonate with earth, geology, rituals and footprints. Her love for earth, whether seismic or volcanic, led her to work on two projects; the linguistic study of 3 Italian volcanoes and the book Pietra[...]
L’Année de la comète is an illustration book without words in which the story is built around large images drawn in Indian ink and pen. Illustrator Clément Vuillier traces a chaotic arrival of a star on a planet, between fire and water, volcanic rocks and[...]
Jupiter's moons are made of rocks, layers of water and ice, but not Io. The fourth moon of the solar system is actually a gigantic volcanic world. Its steep mountains several kilometers high and its irregular depressions form the volcanic calderas. On this burning surface,[...]
