New Artists - Page 3

Mara Trilla was born in Argentina in 1980. Until she was nine years old she grew up in the countryside in Gahan, 300 km far from Buenos Aires. Mara is now based in La Plata in Buenos Aires province. Before becoming a mother of three, she worked as a graphic designer. In 2011, when her first child was born, she decided to dedicate herself fully to motherhood. Being a mother made her a photographer. She is currently working on her long-term project about her children. She uses photography to explore the themes of motherhood, childhood and family. Recently she started

b. 1990 Sem Langendijk studied Photography at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague and is living and working in Amsterdam. Langendijk is a recipient of the Stipend for Emerging Artists from The Mondriaan Fund. He has an interest in communities and their habitats. Langendijk is a photographer of place, but he considers place to be the accumulation of details, moments, and people, through which place identity becomes tangible. Choosing to work on slow, technical cameras lends a certain tranquility and poeticism to his work.

Mariam was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia. After getting a master’s degree in literature she started to work as a documentary photographer. Through the years her focus has shifted more towards depicting her country and people with the help of portraiture and medium film photography. Her work has been shown at different exhibitions and photo festivals around the globe and she has won several grants.

János R. Szabó (1992) was born and raised in Kömörő, a small village in the northeastern part of Hungary. This particular locale plays a major role in his inspiration as an artist.

Roger Richardson (b. 1993) is a photographer based in the Hudson Valley, New York. He attended SUNY Purchase where he earned his BFA in Photography. Working in a photographic documentary style, Roger is interested in telling stories of the human condition; whether it be through emotionally charged photographs or through the images of others. His work derives from a deep desire for human connection, empathy, and compassion. By using photography to document his experience, his hopes are to create honest and impassioned images of the world around him.

Bettina Pittaluga is a French-Uruguayan photographer, After her training as a photojournalist, she obtained a degree in sociology at the Sorbonne and a master’s degree at the Centre d’Etudes Littéraires et Scientifiques Appliquées (CELSA). Whether for commissions or personal projects, her natural and luminous aesthetic takes us straight to emotion. Armed with kindness and delicacy, Bettina Pittaluga brings to light people who are still too often invisibilized in the media space. A committed photographer, she proves that aesthetics is political. “If I chose this profession it is to remain completely aligned with my convictions and everything I stand for. Bettina

Federico “Monty” Kaplan (1986) is a photographer from Argentina. He uses photography as a tool of inspection examining the perception we have of reality. Exploring intersubjective spaces, that are shaped from the relationship between our subjective experiences and the objective nature of things. Searching there for what is invisible to the eye, and exists only as presentiment. His background in filmmaking allows him to create unorthodox narratives filled with atmosphere that blur the line between fiction and documentary. Monty has exhibited work across the globe in USA, London, Germany and Argentina. He was selected as an Single Image Winner’s of

Felipe Romero Beltrán (b.1992, Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian photographer based in Spain. He is currently preparing a PhD dissertation on documentary photography at the Complutense University of Madrid. Beltrán’s practice focuses on social issues, dealing with the tension that new narratives introduce in documentary photography.

Barga,1992 Erika Pellicci first pursued a bachelor’s degree in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence before obtaining her master’s degree in Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2020. Her research focuses on the relationship between body and space, using the performative experience as a testimony of reality. The main medium she uses is photography. Connecting time and the vulnerability of the present, her work goes further and further into the exploration of intimate and familiar relational patterns, often playfully linked.

Alessandro Romito is a photographer born in Brescia, Italy, in 1988. In 2015, he started working as accountant in his family’s firm. He approached the photographic medium in 2017, after finishing his university studies in economics. His interest in social and political issues led him to travel in search of stories to tell, such as the Palestinian issue and youth demonstrations in Hong Kong. In 2018, he won first prize in the Whashington Post’s international photography competition with the picture “Iron Dome”, taken in Tel Aviv. In 2021, he is hired by a local NGO to document the humanitarian work