The project aims to facilitate the creation and circulation of artistic works through a photographic exploration involving 12 emerging European photographers from different countries. These photographers represent the creative force of the project, participate in transnational interdisciplinary workshops, and receive training and mentorship to refine their proposals.
Arianna Sanesi / Italy
Arianna Sanesi is an Italian photographer based in Paris. She studied in Bologna, Milan, Aarhus, Bourges, and Arles, earning several grants and exhibiting internationally. Her publications include "Dispersal" (2013) and "Les crimes passionnels n'existent pas" (2021), co-authored with historians Lydie Bodiou and Frédéric Chauvaud.
Constanze Flamme / Germany
Constanze Flamme is a Berlin-based photographer and visual artist whose work delves into the poetic friction of subliminal undertones. With an essayistic approach, she explores social and environmental themes, navigating the space between fact and metaphor, the mundane and the political. Her images oscillate between documentary storytelling and pictorial condensation, creating a dialogue between reality and perception. Her work has been supported by grants from the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), ifa (Stuttgart), and VG Bildkunst (Bonn) and has been exhibited in Berlin and internationally.
Emma Charrin / France
Emma Charrin holds a Master's degree in Plastic Arts from the University of Aix-en-Provence and a degree in Cinema from Paris. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and South America, in art centers, galleries and festivals. In 2021, in duo with Olivier Muller, she won the Photography grand Prize of 36th FIMPAH of Villa Noailles. Her photographic practice questions the place of man in his environment in a quasi-allegorical way, through the prism of metamorphosis. Photography becomes a material-image open to video and sound installations, film, photogravure, lithography, silkscreening and publishing.
José Witteveen / Netherlands
José Witteveen (1981) grew up in a nature reserve in Frisia, sparking her interest in observing and documenting the world. She studied art in The Hague and philosophy in Groningen. With over 20 years in printmaking, she began incorporating photography six years ago. Her work blends traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques. In her project Orlando, she reimagines Virginia Woolf’s novel through photography and conversation, exploring identity beyond stereotypes. In Fûgels, she collaborates with artists, writers, and scientists to merge activism, environmentalism, and art.
Katrina Rinke / Latvia
Katrīna Marta Riņķe (also known under the pseudonym Kei Sendak) is a Latvian-Belgian photographer and visual artist, as well as the co-founder of the artist book publishing house entropy.press. In 2024, she graduated from KASK School of Arts in Ghent. The starting point of her work is often 16mm analog photography or text, exploring themes such as time, existence, and landscape. Kei's work invites the viewer to dwell in timelessness—a journey without a destination, a poetic, philosophical reflection on being.
Marco Lumini / Italy
Marco Lumini is an Architect and Photographer specializing in architectural photography, spaces, and landscapes. He studied photography in Madrid, Padua, and Lisbon. His images have been published in leading architecture magazines and exhibited in Italy and abroad on the occasion of international photography awards. He is a member of Studio Catalogo, where he focuses on architectural photography. Since 2018, he has collaborated with Irfoss and the IMP International Photojournalism Festival in Padua. Today, he works with the University of Padua and G124, Renzo Piano’s working group dedicated to the redevelopment of suburban areas. His photographic research primarily explores the changes and contradictions of contemporary cities and landscapes.
Mateusz Pecyna / Poland
Mateusz Pecyna (born 1999) is a transdisciplinary artist exploring the relationship between nature and culture through new media, primarily working with film and photography. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Photography and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and artistic events, including at the Museum of Art in Łódź, Kunsthalle Bratislava, and the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
Ola Skowronska / Poland
She graduated with an MA in Photography from the Łódź Film School. Her practice is focused on long-term, research-based projects which originate from observations of historical and social phenomena. She is interested in the possibility of creating a space for equitable conversation and exchange in art, particularly in the context of migration and contemporary social politics. Her work has been exhibited at Kraków Photomonth, Fotofestiwal, and PhMuseum Days, among others. She is a recipient of the Konrad Pustoła scholarship and the Polish Ministry of Culture scholarship.
Pedro Marcano / Spain
I am a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist and architect based in Sevilla, Spain. After immigrating at an young age and having a nomadic and fragmented life, I've found artistic expression as a shelter and a bridge to understanding, exploring, questioning and sharing my experience and identity as an immigrant and queer Venezuelan. Through illustration, sculpture, photography and mixed media, I've explored queerness, masculinity, race and immigration in order to also better understand myself, my heritage, my surroundings and establish dialogues that could enrich the world’s view of these dimensions of life.
Gema Galán / Spain
Gema Galán (b. Seville Spain; raised in Sydney, Australia) is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores identity, memory, and the shifting relationships between humans and the environment. With a foundation in dance and literature education, her practice channels emotion and narrative in subtle, evocative ways.
She develops editorial work in a distinctive, expressive style and her personal projects carry a certain sensibility, weaving fragmented narratives that blur the line between reality and imagination. Subtle yet emotionally resonant, her photographs invite a quiet intimacy where personal history meets collective experience..
Toivo Heinimäki / Finland
Toivo Heinimäki (b. 1995, Helsinki, Finland) is a photographer and small publisher based in Helsinki. His work often embraces a collective approach, exploring various methods of creating and presenting photography. In recent years, his artistic focus has centered on critically examining the built environment. Beyond exhibitions, he frequently shares his work through publications, seeing them as a natural way to make visual art more accessible. In 2020, he founded Utu Press, an artist-led small-publishing house specializing in Finnish photography-based art and art theory. He oversees its content, design, and distribution, among other aspects.
Michaela Nagyidaiová / Slovakia
Michaela Nagyidaiová (1996, Bratislava) is a Slovak photographer based in Vienna, who combines photography, video, and text. Her work analyses the connection between landscape and memory, the transformation of Central & Eastern EU environments, as well as migration, and roots. Thus, her aim is to illustrate neglected issues within the countries spread across Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Drawing inspiration from past events but also contemporary issues, she usually works on long-term and personal projects. She graduated with an MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication in 2019.
Arianna Sanesi / Italy
Arianna Sanesi is an Italian photographer based in Paris. She studied in Bologna, Milan, Aarhus, Bourges, and Arles, earning several grants and exhibiting internationally. Her publications include "Dispersal" (2013) and "Les crimes passionnels n'existent pas" (2021), co-authored with historians Lydie Bodiou and Frédéric Chauvaud.
Constanze Flamme / Germany
Constanze Flamme is a Berlin-based photographer and visual artist whose work delves into the poetic friction of subliminal undertones. With an essayistic approach, she explores social and environmental themes, navigating the space between fact and metaphor, the mundane and the political. Her images oscillate between documentary storytelling and pictorial condensation, creating a dialogue between reality and perception. Her work has been supported by grants from the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), ifa (Stuttgart), and VG Bildkunst (Bonn) and has been exhibited in Berlin and internationally.
Emma Charrin / France
Emma Charrin holds a Master's degree in Plastic Arts from the University of Aix-en-Provence and a degree in Cinema from Paris. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and South America, in art centers, galleries and festivals. In 2021, in duo with Olivier Muller, she won the Photography grand Prize of 36th FIMPAH of Villa Noailles. Her photographic practice questions the place of man in his environment in a quasi-allegorical way, through the prism of metamorphosis. Photography becomes a material-image open to video and sound installations, film, photogravure, lithography, silkscreening and publishing.
José Witteveen / Netherlands
José Witteveen (1981) grew up in a nature reserve in Frisia, sparking her interest in observing and documenting the world. She studied art in The Hague and philosophy in Groningen. With over 20 years in printmaking, she began incorporating photography six years ago. Her work blends traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques. In her project Orlando, she reimagines Virginia Woolf’s novel through photography and conversation, exploring identity beyond stereotypes. In Fûgels, she collaborates with artists, writers, and scientists to merge activism, environmentalism, and art.
Katrina Rinke / Latvia
Katrīna Marta Riņķe (also known under the pseudonym Kei Sendak) is a Latvian-Belgian photographer and visual artist, as well as the co-founder of the artist book publishing house entropy.press. In 2024, she graduated from KASK School of Arts in Ghent. The starting point of her work is often 16mm analog photography or text, exploring themes such as time, existence, and landscape. Kei's work invites the viewer to dwell in timelessness—a journey without a destination, a poetic, philosophical reflection on being.
Marco Lumini / Italy
Marco Lumini is an Architect and Photographer specializing in architectural photography, spaces, and landscapes. He studied photography in Madrid, Padua, and Lisbon. His images have been published in leading architecture magazines and exhibited in Italy and abroad on the occasion of international photography awards. He is a member of Studio Catalogo, where he focuses on architectural photography. Since 2018, he has collaborated with Irfoss and the IMP International Photojournalism Festival in Padua. Today, he works with the University of Padua and G124, Renzo Piano’s working group dedicated to the redevelopment of suburban areas. His photographic research primarily explores the changes and contradictions of contemporary cities and landscapes.
Mateusz Pecyna / Poland
Mateusz Pecyna (born 1999) is a transdisciplinary artist exploring the relationship between nature and culture through new media, primarily working with film and photography. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Photography and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and artistic events, including at the Museum of Art in Łódź, Kunsthalle Bratislava, and the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
Ola Skowronska / Poland
She graduated with an MA in Photography from the Łódź Film School. Her practice is focused on long-term, research-based projects which originate from observations of historical and social phenomena. She is interested in the possibility of creating a space for equitable conversation and exchange in art, particularly in the context of migration and contemporary social politics. Her work has been exhibited at Kraków Photomonth, Fotofestiwal, and PhMuseum Days, among others. She is a recipient of the Konrad Pustoła scholarship and the Polish Ministry of Culture scholarship.
Pedro Marcano / Spain
I am a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist and architect based in Sevilla, Spain. After immigrating at an young age and having a nomadic and fragmented life, I've found artistic expression as a shelter and a bridge to understanding, exploring, questioning and sharing my experience and identity as an immigrant and queer Venezuelan. Through illustration, sculpture, photography and mixed media, I've explored queerness, masculinity, race and immigration in order to also better understand myself, my heritage, my surroundings and establish dialogues that could enrich the world’s view of these dimensions of life.
Gema Galán / Spain
From a very young age, art was a window through which I saw the world and was able to communicate.
I studied English Literature, was a dancer and a teacher for many years but I have always had a passionate relationship with photography. In 2020 I decided to enter the profession and since then I have participated in many different competitions for which I have been a finalist and won an award.
I was born in Seville but at the age of four, my parents emigrated to Sydney, Australia. I consider myself quite lucky to not belong only to one place. It has allowed me to always travel between worlds and be surrounded by magic.
Photography allows me to express myself and communicate freely. In this art form I have been able to find a place where my creativity can be unrestrained.
Currently, I specialize in portrait, social and event phototgraphy. In my free time I also work on my artistic photography, where I specialize in analogue Fine Art.
Toivo Heinimäki / Finland
Toivo Heinimäki (b. 1995, Helsinki, Finland) is a photographer and small publisher based in Helsinki. His work often embraces a collective approach, exploring various methods of creating and presenting photography. In recent years, his artistic focus has centered on critically examining the built environment. Beyond exhibitions, he frequently shares his work through publications, seeing them as a natural way to make visual art more accessible. In 2020, he founded Utu Press, an artist-led small-publishing house specializing in Finnish photography-based art and art theory. He oversees its content, design, and distribution, among other aspects.
Michaela Nagyidaiová / Slovakia
Michaela Nagyidaiová (1996, Bratislava) is a Slovak photographer based in Vienna, who combines photography, video, and text. Her work analyses the connection between landscape and memory, the transformation of Central & Eastern EU environments, as well as migration, and roots. Thus, her aim is to illustrate neglected issues within the countries spread across Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Drawing inspiration from past events but also contemporary issues, she usually works on long-term and personal projects. She graduated with an MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication in 2019.
