"Kyoto, a city deemed so culturally significant that US military planners during World War Two decided not to bomb it for fear of an international outcry. American bombers, however, could never have been as effective as Japan’s ‘concrete state’—an alliance of construction companies, developers, gangsters and corrupt politicians that have continued to relentlessly smother Japan in cement."

Stuart Isett

(24 black and white photographs)

"These images are my journal. They reflect my everyday life, thoughts, events and moments. Living in the United States at this time is an incredible experience, I believe it is like living in Rome at the peak of the Roman Empire, it holds the world power and technology of our days."

Rafael Dabul

(20 color photographs)

"In 1908, Eugenio Espino Barros had the idea of making the book México en el Centenario de su Independencia (México in the Centenary of its Independence). He convinced a group of wealthy people to support his project. A association was formed to have the book made. That wasn’t an easy task because of the circunstances of the country in those years (deficient communication and the beginning of the revolution)".

Esther Angelica Espino Barros

(51 black and white photographs)

"Taking a photograph with this camera is like, literally, embracing the environment, being close to the people, it’s also a personal moment where I feel finally part of the collectivity; given my situation of being born in France and being a naturalized Mexican citizen".

Eric Jervaise

(15 black and white panoramic photographs)

"This book speaks about a urban Guadalupe from the XX century, inside our current society, efficient and triumphant nowadays, granting and receiving a modern cult, constellated with signs of the industrial civilization".

Jose Joaquin Blanco

(24 color photographs)

"Girl Culture has been my journey as a photographer, as an observer of culture, as part of the media, as a media critic, as a woman, as a girl".

Lauren Greenfield

(29 color photographs)

"My idea to tell the story of Bordello came about from my environment, and using the 1920’s as my inspiration, gave me a more poetic and nostalgic means to fabricate the stylised imagery. Indeed, my interpretation is an idealistic and romantic view, but nevertheless engages the viewer in more than a narcisstic meander through the mind’s desires".

Vee Speers

(24 color and black and white photographs and 6 audios)

"Between 1993 and 2001 I worked as a human rights advocate and free-lance photographer in Guatemala, principally working with indigenous Mayans uprooted by that country’s long and brutal civil war. I spent much of my time in rural areas, working to support Guatemala’s hardest hit displaced and refugee populations in their struggle for respect of their basic rights".

Jonathan Moller

(28 black and white photographs)

"As a child, pictures of the disappeared drew me in a mysterious way. Whenever I saw them at a demonstration, I had the feeling that they were not dead. That they were taking it all in; staring at us from their pictures. 30,000 photographs of the disappeared belong in Argentina's picture album."

Inés Ulanovsky

(35 color photographs and 8 audios)

"Ay Dios is the result of a four-month months journey to the island of Curacao. This visit led to many astonishing insights; I made the streets my place of work and allowed myself to be led through the theatre of life on the island. Rather than moulding a conscious story, I let the surrounding influences help me visually create what I call the "thread of life".

Diana Blok

(26 color photographs)

"On glancing through my diaries of the late sixties, I found the precolumbian description of the Lower Mixteca as "Ñundeui"and its translation "at the foot of the sky." I adopted it as the title for this exhibit, since it means to be at the entrance of the sky, from where I managed to glimpse at this tropical Eden."

Mario Mutschlechner

(15 color photographs)

"This exhibition is about grounding identity within a familial and cultural history subject to erasures, geographic displacements, and cultural dislocations. It is the result of a process of gathering and connecting scattered fragments of a past history while acknowledging the impossibility of complete retrieval."

Rafael Goldchain

(21 black and white photographs and 7 videos)

The photographs that make up this exhibition were presented in the context of the First National Encounter of Pinhole Photography, held in the city of Veracruz, Mexico, during the month of July 2001.

(44 black and white photographs)

"Jacob Wrestling is a series of images conceived as a allegorical narrative. It involves elements of personal experiences, memories, as well as imagined characters and settings. The text excerpts are drawn from the novel Demian, written by Herman Hesse."

Stephan Childs

(12 black and white photographs)

Julian Gallo

(Multimedia documentary based on digital images and sounds)