Hometown

● Birdhead - Ji Weiyu & Song Tao

- Photographed their hometown Shanghai by capturing things that are meaningful
to them and their daily life experience.

● Leftbank- Ramin Mazur

- Reminiscing her hometown through the angle of recreating the memories she
had as a child by spending more time with her family and relatives.

● Portrait of a Haunting City- Lale Cakmak

- A story about Ankara, her hometown, through the angle of the daily city life and
snapshots of people on the streets.

● YU:The Lost Country - Dragana Jurisic

- Story about his homeland called Yugoslavia by re-examining and reliving his own
memory in that place. A quest of searching lost country and lost identity.

● Monbetsu: Isolation in a Home Town- Tatyana Rutherston

- Capturing the emptiness and loneliness she feels in her hometown Monbetsu
through the angle of beauty of decay and the impermanence of existence.

Unbelonging/Search of Belonging
● Beyond here is nothing- Laura El-Tantawy
- Exploring what it means to be “home” through her personal experience of
growing in unfamiliar places,feeling of rootlessness, and constant search of
belonging.

● For the Time Being- Jonathan Schechner

- Story about the complex relationship of place and belonging portrayed through
processing his own sense of not belonging where he lives.

● Metamorphosis- KyeongJun Yang

- Photo series about a Chinese immigrant in America through the angle of the
subject’s memories, experiences, and feelings of not belonging to where she
lives.

Trapped/Escapism
● Escapism- Amanda Mason
- This photo series explores the idea of wanting to escape to somewhere
imaginary through creating surreal images from imagination.

● Arturo Bamboo- Arthur and Bamboo

 - Story about escaping from mundane reality through the angle of the life under the
sun which is “always about simple pleasure and hasn’t changed much over the
past decades.”

● Clutter- Caroline Kurze

- This photo series expresses the moments when people feel trapped and
desperately want to escape from the situation. Kurze captures these moments
through metaphoric cluttered mental space where the thoughts are disorganized.