From issue to issue there are so many life altering changes in the world. While we want to acknowledge the madness we mostly want to stay focused on the art being created as we continue to offer a platform to artists across the globe. We never know what lies ahead, but we do know that art needs to hold a space - a space to breathe, to express, to reflect. 

When we started preparing this issue, Russia’s attack on Ukraine had just begun.
We asked seven Ukrainian photographers to contribute to a special feature. Each of them sent one image, some documenting the facts, some reflecting on their feelings of the current situation. You can view their responses here. 

For A Visual Dialogue we invited Hungarian Domonkos Varga and Austin Cullen from the US and Korean Jeong Hur and Mackai Sharp from Canada who accepted the challenge.
As before none of these four photographers knew each other prior to us introducing them. You can see the results here.

Again we’re delighted by the countless submissions that approach themes and photographic styles in fresh and unexpected ways. We look for, and are inspired by, people who have something to express about their world, our collective world from anywhere and everywhere.

This time our selected artists come from  Austria, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Turkey, Ukraine and USA.

In two series we find the same motif, the mother. She is the subject in Panos Charalampidis & Mary Chairetaki’s Mother Motif with her strong influence on her daughter’s life while Eyhan Çelik interrogates the meaning of home as represented by her mother in Ready or Not, Here I Come.

Italian Valerio Polici's diptychs present the concept of home as intimate interior spaces with an ambiguous sense of tension that dances between the images in Interno and Norwegian Janne Amalie Svit investigates the human condition as she experiences a sense of unease at the loss of the idyllic lifestyle of her hometown that was so familiar to generations of her ancestors in her series Unrest.

In I See Nothing, analog photographer Frank Marshal from the US travels the country with his 6x7 camera photographing familiar but often overlooked forlorn scenes devoid of human presence.

Another artist duo Işık Kaya & Thomas Georg Blank from Turkey and Germany takes us on a journey around California pointing out the strange beauty of the ubiquitous surveillance and 5G technology hidden in an array of fake palm trees. 

Noemi Comi from Italy guides us into her fantastic world in Homo Saurus and shows us an ironic view of a society lost in its own bizarre constructed conspiracy theories. 

Danish artist Marie Wengler’s ongoing self-portrait series Rejected speaks to the perception of “normal” and “deviant” female bodies.

In his sensitive exploration of youth in The Urgency of Life young Italian photographer Tommaso Montenesi Posch portrays his friends during the transition between youth and adulthood while Chilean born artist Vicente Cayuela uses his colorful constructed still life series Juvenilia to heal from the childhood trauma complicated by the intense and unforgiving gaze of social media.