Ignacio Navas

Paula Artés (1996) is an artist committed to unveiling and questioning hidden spaces of power—and, by extension, control. Through rigorous prior research, she brings these spaces to light. Her work has been exhibited at Museu Habitat, curated by Manuel J. Borja-Villel; Santa Mònica in Barcelona; Lo Pati in Amposta; the Museu Morera; and the Festival de la Imagen in Colombia. She won the ArtNou Award for Best Exhibition at àngels barcelona gallery. Her work is part of the Mapfre Foundation collection and the Contemporary Art Collection of the Generalitat de Catalunya. She has been selected for PhotoEspaña Descubrimientos, Sala d’Art Jove, VEGAP, OSIC, and Unseen Amsterdam. She has also been nominated for the Gabriele Basilico Prize, the C/O Berlin Talent Award, the MAST Foundation Prize, and the Pla(t)form Prize at FotoMuseum. Additionally, she has participated in residencies at HISK in Belgium and Baladre at Lo Pati.

Eric Asamoah (*1999) is an Austrian photographer of Ghanaian heritage whose practice positions portraiture as a critical space for examining identity, memory and diasporic experience. His work is characterized by a restrained and contemplative visual language, favoring nuance, stillness and emotional clarity over overt narrative or spectacle. Working predominantly with natural light and deliberate composition, Asamoah creates images that emphasize presence and interiority, allowing subjects to inhabit the frame with quiet authority. His photographs often explore themes of selfhood, masculinity, vulnerability and belonging, informed by transnational perspectives and lived experience within the diaspora. His practice operates through attentiveness and ambiguity, using photography as a mode of inquiry into how individuals are seen and how they choose to be represented. Situated within a new generation of contemporary image-makers, Asamoah’s work contributes to ongoing conversations around authorship, visibility and the evolving language of portraiture within current photographic discourse.

Toma Hurduc is a documentary photographer, currently working in Bucharest. His attention was first focused on representing local underground communities and movements, which he strongly feels related to. Nowadays, his narratives are often built on top of the personal experience and relationship with the subject matter, therefore the factual truth is often mixed with the meta, imaginative truth, aiming to question the human perception of reality, dread, anxiety, ephemerality and the construction of memory. Having an academic background in Cinematography, Toma is highly interested in the way light forms images, choosing to work regularly on 35mm black and white film, as a way to render the surreal he sees in ordinary life. Toma’s work has been exhibited both collectively and solo in Romania and abroad and he has been part of multiple mentorship programs, most recent being with Annie Leibovitz and IKEA.

Anna Safiatou Touré (Bamako, Mali, born in 1996) is a Franco-Malian multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. She graduated from the Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts and the ENSAV La Cambre in photography. Anna Safiatou was awarded the Médiatine Prize in 2022 and the Roger De Conynck Fund in 2023-24. Her work explores the space that unites or separates the two sides of every migratory narrative. The journey through this personal, historical, and cultural blending fills for her empty or unanswered spaces. On her own scale, she wishes to materialize this absence by creating her own evidence to make history heard—rendering the absence visible to tell stories from these new bodies. Like a certain poetry of emptiness, couldn’t the world be told in reverse, like a stencil, from the edge?

Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard is a Norwegian photographer and artist working across photography, installation, and writing. With a background in documentary photography and material-based art, her practice explores the tension between control and release, and between belonging and distance. Rooted in a rural upbringing, her work examines how emotional experience, labour, and inherited expectations shape the body and leave physical and sensory traces over time. Moving between close observation and introspection, she investigates how history, care, and responsibility are carried—both individually and across generations. Through tactile, often spatial approaches, Luksengard seeks to slow down perception and create spaces for reflection, where presence, vulnerability, and memory can coexist.

Naa Teki Martey Lebar (*1989) is a visual artist and author. She studied Fine Arts and Photography in Great Britain, Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Austrian Studies at the University of Vienna. Her work explores themes of belonging and identity shaped by living across multiple cultures, often reflecting on the gaze in and beyond the photographic medium through personal narratives. Working with photography, text, and installation, Lebar creates spaces for reflection, narration, and care where experience becomes both material and method.

Irish artist, Miriam O’Connor lives and works in Cork. She holds a BA in photography from Dublin Institute of Technology, and completed a Research Masters at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire in 2011. Drawing inspiration from the language, sights and sounds of the everyday, O’Connor’s practice frequently engages with matters which reflect her everyday surroundings, as well as her day-to-day experiences of being a photographer. Her projects have explored themes around looking and seeing; the relationship between camera and subject; the circulation and consumption of images and the complex nature of photographic representation.Her work has been exhibited and distributed extensively, with features in magazines and publications including; Camera Austria, Source Photographic Review, The New York Times and The Guardian. Recent solo shows include Sternview Gallery, Cork, Galleri Image, Denmark, The Third Space Gallery, Belfast and during ‘THERE THERE’ festival, Cork curated by Stag & Deer. In 2012, she received the Alliance Française Photography Award, which included a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. She was the recipient of the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award [EIARA] in 2015 which included a month-long residency at Burren College of Art, Co. Clare. Publications include, ‘Attention Seekers’ (2012) ‘The Legacy Project’ (2013) and ‘Tomorrow is Sunday’ (2017). She was one of the selected artists for Greetings from Ireland (2015) and New Irish Works I & II (2013, 2016). In conjunction with Galleri Image, Denmark, she recently produced new work for FRESH EYES - International artists rethink Aarhus, which was exhibited during Aarhus Capital of Culture, 2017.

Influenced from an early age by the culture of photojournalism, Elliott Verdier soon began to question his position as a witness and the subjectivity of his gaze. His work is naturally far removed from current events and favours the slowness of the large format camera, exploring the shadows of our world in search of what is invisible but universal: the memory of present and past lives, and the path it determines for us. His photography emanates a melancholy expectation, a suspended time, a silence that gives way to our existential questioning. Through a delicate aesthetic, it is no longer a question of looking solely through the prism of our wounds, but of seeing above all the grace that emerges from our struggles, and the constant resilience that overcomes our frailties. Elliott Verdier was born in Paris (France) in 1992 and graduated from the Écoles de Condé in 2015.

ROXANA RIOS *1994 (they/them) currently based in Leipzig, Germany. In 2017 Roxana picked up a double study at HGB Leipzig and AdBK Nuremberg and studied in the classes of Heidi Specker and Juergen Teller. After graduating in 2020 Roxana joined Isabel Lewis' class of the performing Arts.They received their Diploma in July 2023. Roxana's work has been shown at Museum Folkwang Essen, DEICHTORHALLEN Hamburg, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Fotomuseum Winterthur and FOTOHOF Salzburg. Roxana was nominated for the Federal Prize for Art Students in 2020 and won the Contemporary German Photography Grant in 2024                                                                   Roxana's current practice engages in critical discussions concerning the development of (hegemonial) narratives, as well as the relations between image- and knowledge-production. Roxana examines ‘the’ body as a construct, material and representative within social orders.In this function, the work understands itself as an exercise in utopian thinking, seeing and speaking – a contribution to contemporary, social and aesthetic discourses.