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© Yann Gross

I came across Yann Gross while flicking through photography magazines in the library and discovered several amazing projects. Gross’s work is about “identities, dreams and senses of belonging to communities“. I will start off with Kitintale, series on the first skate park made by youths in the East of Uganda.

The first Ugandan skateboarders were inspired by television, and as there was no concrete in the town to practice on they built a skate park by their own hands without any help from the government to overcome boredom. This keeps the youths busy, and combats the development of negative behavior keeping them in a good community. The older skaters are seen as role models, teaching the kids about problems like HIV and Malaria, as well as instill values of respect and solidarity.

© Yann Gross

© Yann Gross

© Yann Gross

© Yann Gross

© Yann Gross

© Yann Gross

© Yann Gross

© Indre Serpytyte

It isn’t often that I come across fellow Lithuanian artists in Portfolio Magazine. Indre has been featured in Issue 44 “Jerwood Photography Awards 2006″, with series a state of silence. The work focuses on the belongings of her Father, at the time working as Head of Government Security of Lithuania, who was killed in a “car accident”, and  a clear explanations or details of his brutal and premeditated death was never given.

© Indre Serpytyte

© Indre Serpytyte

© Indre Serpytyte

© Indre Serpytyte

© Jesper Ulvelius

Jespers wonderful series Oblivion can be found here.

© Jesper Ulvelius

© Jesper Ulvelius

© Jesper Ulvelius

Tomoko Yoneda

My favourite series After the Thaw by Tomoko Yoneda

Tomoko Yoneda

Tomoko Yoneda

A nice project Salt Water & Rain by Don Denton.

Anna Collete’s series Urban is worth having a look at.

http://annacollette.com/portfolio/urban/

TJ Proechel’s project “Baltimore” photographs murder sites, each telling a different story of how the victim died. Reminds me of a TV show “The Wire“, a must watch.

Click here to see more work from series Slums in Europe.

http://www.julianroeder.com

Retail spaces in eastern Germany. More great work can be found here.

http://thomas-meyer.com

I came across Edgar Martins project The Rehearsal of Space at Passage De Retz Gallery in Paris, and was completely stunned by the beautiful prints. These images were produced during the 2005-2008 fires in Portugal, Edgar working in conjunction with firefighters over his residency at Fire Protection Unit. Some of the photographs are smoked due to the negatives exposed to heat from the fires, resulting in technical accidents which added to the atmosphere of the photographs, later using the same technique purposefully in his later series.