In every city, there’s a tension between the urban environment and nature. But can we even talk about ‘nature’ in big cities? For photographer Itsaso Arizkuren, the combination of city and nature represents a battlefield. Through her photographs she explores how we portray and experience nature in metropolitan environments, and who has the upper hand.

Maria Munzi loves working with mystery and ambiguity in her photographs. She documents surreal moments, leaving the viewer questioning what is real and what is just an illusion. Her ongoing project Je ne regrette rien creates a playful mix of dreams, reality and humour. 

Combining retrofuturism with hyperreal aesthetics, pop-art style colours and bejewelled womxns bodies, Jasmine De Silva playfully satirises the desire for physical perfection, holding up a mirror to our own dehumanising obsession with appearances, with ambitious aims to expose society’s unrealistic standards of beauty. For her new series and ongoing project, De Silva creates a scintillating narrative of human addiction to body modification and the search for unattainable perfection.

Living in a large metropolitan city can be exciting and invigorating. Unfortunately, the fast-paced lifestyle and constant pressure of working and making enough money to survive can have adverse effects on your mental and psychical health. Photographer Yuqi Wang responds with humorous photography, exploring how our behaviour and consciousness will eventually conform to this invisible prison.

Over the last four years, photographer Karla Guerrero has created a new series of images, exploring the presence and absence in everyday life. Her intuitive observations of missing objects, spaces and light and shadow create a conceptual visual dialogue. 

Photographer Matthew Finn got a job at the School of Art in London back in 1997 and he started to photograph both the students and the school itself. His images are an outstanding historic documentation of the height of ‘Cool Britannia’ and the hope which was felt throughout the country at the time.

Photographer Elea Jeanne Schmitter hands the power of taking the picture over to her sitters. Her series of directed self-portraits feature people who identify as women within the institutional environment. She invites the viewer to confront stereotypes and to explore these intimate portraits. 

Photographer Andoni Beristain is known for his bold use of colour, working with some of the top fashion brands. When his mother suddenly passed away in 2022, he created Pieza Madre – an homage to unconditional love, loss and death. Using the colour yellow for bad luck, Andoni’s images are a reminder that we should never take anything in life for granted.

After his critically acclaimed series, Prints for Queers, photographer Matt Ford invites us into the kink and fetish scene with his new exhibition VOYEUR. The intimate portraits and short films celebrate diverse members of a community which is often perceived as scary, weird or simply just misunderstood.

A person with Paranoid Schizophrenia can experience delusions and hallucinations, blurring the line between what is real and what isn't, making it difficult for the person to lead a typical life. Photographer Ana Hop creates an intimate portrait of her aunt's journey at home who was diagnosed with the illness.

In 2002, the oil tanker MV Prestige sank off the coast of Galicia (Spain), creating one of Europe’s biggest environmental disaster. Two decades later, Photographer Ariadna Silva Fernández documents what is still visible of this ‘badly healed wound’, acting as a reminder but also a warning sign for future generations.