CATEGORY : SINGLE

Author: Daniel Bellman

Country: USA

Title: “City of Layers”

Place: New York City

Description: A string of skyscrapers appears to be erected on a vacant platform of raw concrete, which in turn is supported by a row of pillars lined above a mass of rocks. The optical illusion created by the perspective reveals in a single image the unseen layers of architectural intervention over the environment from the ground up, both in space and time: from the rough rocky terrain at the bottom, to the construction site in the middle, all the way up to the sleek modern structures jutting out in the sky..

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Website: https://www.danimbel.com/

Author: Rozafa Shpuza

Country: Albania

Title: "The city holding me hostage"

Place: Shkoder, Albania

Description: My soul wanders through Shkodra, climbing on the concrete skeletons and reflecting in the windows where the city breathes. My face is nothing more than a passing shadow on the walls, but it becomes one with them – a fragile sign that blends with the roads, bicycles and sidewalks. In every reflex I see how the city makes room for me within itself: it holds me hostage as a memory, and at the same time frees me to disperse among light and shadow. Shkodra is not only the scene I pass through, but the photograph itself where every step and every glance of mine remains engraved.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rozafashpuza/

Rozafa Shpuza, The city holding me hostage

Author: Klevisa Bardeli

Country: Albania

Title: “The city that haunts me“

Place: Shkodër

Description: A city that seems familiar, but the shadows tell a different story. Everything is there: memories, streets, roots intertwined in a web of invisible sensations. The buildings are the same, but the eyes that see them have changed. The shadows speak more than the lights. This is not just an urban landscape, it is a clash between the past and the present, between what was and what remains within us. Everything seems real, but nothing is certain. The buildings, the branches, the shadows, all are silent voices of a nameless memory.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram .com/k.bardeli_art

Klevisa Bardeli, The city that haunts me

Author: Daniele Longobardi

Country: Italy

Title: “The right time and place“

Place: Lille, France

Description: The City and Signs. Many people believe that in the coordinate system of the world there is a perfect point where time and place come to an agreement.

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Website: http://danielelongobardi.eu/

Daniele Longobardi, The right time and place

Author: Cristina Fontsare

Country: Catatonia

Title: “Blue Journal“

Place: Vic-Barcelona

Description: The picture was taken from my bedroom window, years ago when I was suffering from insomnia. I was living in a cold foggy town and dreaming to live elsewhere.

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Website https://www.cristinafontsare.com

Author: Andrzej Ziółkowski

Country: Polska

Title: “Souls in Transit“

Place: Wroclaw

Description: The photo was taken from the gallery of the beautiful historic railroad station e Wroclaw.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrzej.zet_my.point.of.view/

Author: Alketa Misja

Country: Albania

Title: “City and Desire“

Place: Tower DownTown One , Tirana

Description: DownTown One Tower is a 37 floors building of 140 metres, the tallest in Tirana, which can be seen from any point in the city. The project features a pixaleted image in the main façade, composed of a series of cantilevered offices, each representing a city in the map of Albania. The building is part of a group of distinctive projects designed by international firms, with the aim to change the image of the city into a modern European capital and as an architecture destination.

“… But with all this, I would not be telling you the city’s true essence; for while the description of Anastasia awakens desires one at a time only to force you to stifle them, when you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning your desires waken all at once and surround you. The city appears to you as a whole where no desire is lost and of which you are a part, and since it enjoys everything you do not enjoy, you can do nothing but inhabit this desire and be content. Such is the power, sometimes called malignant, sometimes benign, that Anastasia, the treacherous city, possesses; if for eight hours a day you work as a cutter of agate, onyx, chrysoprase, your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.” Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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Website: https://www.alketamisja.com/

Author: Nataliya Petkova

Country: Canada

Title: "The space of mine"

Place: Canada

Description: Backyard artifice

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Website: http://www.nataliyapetkova.com/

Author: Andrea Gluckman

Country: United States

Title: "Cashel 2"

Place: Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland

Description: The Rock of Cashel sits at the nexus of imaginary and historic life, legends and lore mixing with ancient histories in the Irish countryside. This tintype image of the Rock of Cashel was crafted to denote the historic relic of the physical structure, while texture, blur, and grain obscure the details. Such is the way history works in human imagination--memory with a skeleton, but an opaque and suggestive veneer. Life always continues in ruins, as the cashel demonstrates.

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Website: http://www.aspexiimages.com