PHOTO STORIES
Les insouciants
For her ongoing project Les insouciants (the reckless), photographer Lydia Metral documented the Queer community she is part of over the last 5 years. She invites us to experience the beauty, warmth and authenticity of her encounters.
Observing culture
Philippine-born photographer Robert Marco Detoyato uses photography as a way to explore a foreign culture. Despite getting used to the Austrian culture, living in Vienna sometimes leaves him feeling isolated.
Virgin in Bloom
Award-winning florist and runner-up of Netflix’s breakout series The Big Flower Fight, Yan Skates brings Virgin X’s ethereal world to life. The Danish master opens up about working with the London nightlife legend, what competing on reality TV is really like, and the missed opportunities because of COVID-19.
Bountiful
In her new work Bountiful, photographer Jocelyn Lee shows us that no body deserves cultural invisibility or the denial of personal pleasure. Her sensual portraits of women of all ages and body types call to question our cultural view of beauty and show us what real bodies look like – in harmony with nature and the cycle of life.
Geometrix
London based photographer Rupert Vandervell finds beauty combining light, form and human presence in the spaces that surround us.
LIFE IS ART
Japanese street photographer Shin Noguchi shows us the secret of life and transports us to the world his eyes are witnessing. He finds beauty in moments that happens everyday, anytime and everywhere. Capturing unpredictable stories full of humour, colour, movement, chaos and joy.
Tales From the Road
‘Tales form the road’ is a photo essay of photographer Harry Rose created during a 6-week road trip across Scotland. Through this personal diary, he explores the feeling around losing his father to cancer and finally letting go of the pain he has been carrying around with him for so long.
A Sisterhood.
Between 2015 and 2018, photographer Valeria Luongo captured the everyday life of a group of nuns living in a Convent in Rome.
History of Pride
We at ZERO.NINE love to celebrate Pride month, not by plastering a rainbow over our logo, but by taking a closer look at the radical roots of LGBTQIA+ history that has led to this moment in time.
To Survive on This Shore
There’s very little representation of older transgender people in our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional. For over five years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre travelled across the United States to find people to photograph and interview.
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Photographer Giacomo Infantino’s series is a meeting point between two different generations, Millennials and Generation Z, exploring the topic of digital identity and its consequences.
Reaching for Dawn
We talk to Elliott Verdier about his latest photo book, Reaching for Dawn, which bears witness to a post-civil war Liberia in which war and violence has resulted in unresolved trauma between civilians.
When does the end begin?
Maria Neohoriti used photography as a way to communicate with her mother and at the same time dealing with the fear of losing her. In this long-term project she has been documenting the pain of getting old and weak.
What’s good
As the restrictions on hugging / physical contact have been lifted, London based photographer Sebastian Barros collaborated with UK charity Football Beyond Borders to create a series of portraits showing the joy and authentic moments of human connection with friends.
Textured Light
Can light have texture? Photographer James Donovan created a series of fashion portraits to explore how texture can be created when breaking up white light into its basic RGB.
X² + Y² = 1²: Flat Hole
Photographer Su Ji Lee uses installation and photography to question constructed forms using spheres and graphic elements inviting the viewer to a gentle exploration to a parallel reality.
Nightclubbing
This short documentary takes you on a nostalgic trip back to the pre-pandemic days of nightclubbing. Photographer and filmmaker Matt Ford captures club promotor Stella Marbles and discusses the essence and importance of Queer clubbing and safe spaces for our generation.
The Whisperers
For his project ‘The Whisperers’, Polish photographer Kuba Kaminski documented elderly women who believe they posses a gift from God. They live in small villages in the East of Poland, where they treat people in their houses to heal them from diseases and physical pain.