Participant Category: Artist

András Ladocsi

András Ladocsi (HU/FR, b. 1992) is a Hungarian photographer whose practice focuses on people and social connections. Now based in Paris, he holds a BA from Budapest’s Moholy-Nagy University of Art and an MA from London’s Royal College of Art. In 2020, Ladocsi was awarded the American Vintage Prize at the 35th edition of the … Continued

Devashish Gaur

Devashish Gaur (IN, b. 1996) currently lives and works in India. Through an interdisciplinary practice – incorporating found objects and archival imagery – his photographic works approach notions of home, domesticity, distance, intimacy and identity. Gaur’s depictions of India’s lush natural environments, stark concrete architecture and domestic life paint some of the world’s most crowded … Continued

Tomas Raul Aphalo

Tomas Raul Aphalo (FI/AR, b. 1996) is a Finnish-Argentinian visual artist who works in the realm of autobiographical experimental documentary photography. Across his work, he employs archival material and fragmentary text alongside his own images. Aphalo often engages in long-term photography projects, creating photo books and exhibitions that are bound by themes of longing, desire … Continued

Diana Tamane

Diana Tamane (LV/EE, b. 1986) was born in Riga, Latvia, but now lives and works in Tartu, Estonia. Across her projects, she works with family albums, documents and private correspondences to reveal touching autobiographical stories, as well as to paint a broader picture of society and recent history. A graduate of both the Tartu Art … Continued

Sander Coers

Sander Coers (NL, b. 1997) is an artist working with photography based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. At the borders of documentary and fiction, he seeks to establish new perspectives on masculinity by visualising, recontextualising and (de)constructing memories. Coming-of-age transitions form a recurring theme throughout his work: Coers frequently casts a tender gaze on stories of … Continued

Valentin Joseph Valette

Valentin Joseph Valette (FR, b. 1994) is a French photographer with an academic background in Sociology and Political Science, for whom the visual arts offer a valuable research instrument. His interest in the Arab and Muslim worlds, fuelled by his studies at the Institute of Political Studies of Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, led him to join … Continued

Jean Vincent Simonet

Jean Vincent Simonet (FR/CH, b. 1991) graduated from Lausanne’s ECAL in 2014. Currently based between Paris and Zurich, he juggles commissioned work and editorial assignments with a range of personal projects. Simonet has exhibited in renowned institutions and galleries such as Foam Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Centre de la photographie Genève, Cabaret Voltaire Zürich and … Continued

Charles Thiefaine

Charles Thiefaine (FR/IQ, b. 1991) is a photographer and journalist from Roubaix, France. Based between France and the Middle East, Thiefaine’s practice lies at the border between documentary and point-of-view photography: he discovers and arranges evocative stories to create new proposals on conflict territories. As well as his commissioned work for the French press (M … Continued

Triin Kerge

Triin Kerge (EE/IT, b. 1986) is an Estonian artist living between Tallinn and Venice. She holds a BA in Documentary Photography from Newport University, Wales, and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Kerge’s creative practice focuses on materiality, the nature of memory and the connections between collective and personal memory. … Continued

Paul Kuimet

Paul Kuimet (EE, b. 1984) is a Tallinn-based artist who works with photographic installations and 16mm films, the subject of which includes landscapes, architecture, objects and works of art. Obliquely addressing capitalism’s structures and modus operandi, Kuimet reveals the social and cultural values of the present day in atemporal details and fleeting moments. In 2018, … Continued