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Urban Beings

Nine Elms, South West London was once a bustling industrial area but is being rapidly transformed into a high-density modern centre dotted by imposing high-rise developments. The contrast between the Victorian brick terr...

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Ojars Feldbergs? lifelong dream - Pedvale Art Park - a threatened idyll

In northwestern Latvia, in Courland (Kurzeme), on the left bank of the Abava River, next to the town of Sabile, lies Pedvale. After Latvia's independence was restored in 1991, sculptor Ojars Arvids Feldbergs acquired and...

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Angels

ANGELS (2024-present) is the latest series from American multimedia artist and photographer J.A. Young. Young’s ever-expanding body of work is a single, ongoing project: a non-rational, starkly intimate experiment in...

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North North South

In Los Angeles, what do you see when you are not moving at 60 mph? When you are not rushing from one location to another? The photographs in “North North South” explore the spaces in between destinations, highlighting th...

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Keo Keo Ro

("in layers") is an ongoing body of work that examines the regeneration and redevelopment of London, where the city’s transformative history resonates with the urban landscapes of my motherland, South Korea. From i...

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Almost Heaven

Almost Heaven is the culmination of 4 years of image making inside and around Death Valley, CA. Despite being one of the most severe climates in the world and being infamous for taking the lives of unfortunate travelers,...

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Wilderness & Luxury

“Wilderness & Luxury” encompasses the two basic materials contributing to these images: • wilderness, natural spaces designated as such for the purposes of preservation and recreation. The landscape as we encounter it...

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Kille

Kille (which translates to "body of water" in Middle Dutch), primarily serves as an exploration into the dynamics of two specific regions surrounding New York City and New Jersey: Newtown Creek and the Meadowlands of New...

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Eternity! Eternity!

Eternity! Eternity! is a journey through a strange land, with explorations in violence, belief, and uncertainty along the way. The impetus of the project was a focus on this idea of “small town science fiction” (the titl...

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Aztl?n

Aztlán, is the ancestral homeland of the Aztecs, the indigenous peoples of Mexico. It is the place where they were instructed to migrate to by their god, and is thought to be in what is today the western United States. A...

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Life-Lines Throughout the United States

This body of work is a companion series to my project, “Felicific Calculus: Technology as a Social Marker of Race, Class, & Economics in Rochester, NY,” to demonstrate how communities throughout the United States are fac...

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Ritratto immaginario di giovane

In his early twenties, my father was called for a job in the town of Arbus in southwestern Sardinia, where he stayed for four years; between excitement and fear within days he was preparing to leave a closed and oppressi...

Journal

Urban Beings

Ojars Feldbergs? lifelong dream - Pedvale Art Park - a threatened idyll

Angels

North North South

Keo Keo Ro

Almost Heaven

Wilderness & Luxury

Kille

Eternity! Eternity!

Aztl?n

Life-Lines Throughout the United States

Ritratto immaginario di giovane

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