George Ivanchenko

Karolina Gembara is a photographer and researcher whose work revolves around  themes such as home, belonging, migration, and practices of care. Much of her recent  activity has been devoted to politics and activism. She uses photography and video as  tools and pretexts for collaboration, fostering creative processes.  In 2013, she published her debut book "Fitting Rooms," which examines the role of  women in her generation. Between 2009 and 2016, Karolina was based in India, where  she produced her second book "When We Lie Down, Grasses Grow From Us,"  exploring the migratory experience (published by GOST Books in 2019). She is an  editor of several Strike Newspapers published by the Archive of Public Protest.  In recent years, she has initiated and completed several participatory projects involving  refugees, creating spaces for collaboration and self-expression.  Karolina is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation (K. Kieślowski Film School), which centers around the subjective narratives of historical migrations. She is a member of Sputnik Photos and the A-P-P

Maria Siorba (b. 1986) is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece, with an educational background in Fine Arts, Graphic Design & Communication. Her photography, deeply tied to personal experience, explores human connections, the fragility of self-expression and the fluidity of truth. She uses photography as a psychological and existential tool to uncover new layers of meaning and emotional resonance.

Florine Thiebaud (b. 1992, France) is a photographer based in Marseille. With a post-documentary practice that combines photography and writing, she places a significant emphasis on publishing. She explores the notions of imprisonment and isolation, the passage of time, loss of control, identity, and her connection to others. From 2016 to 2019, she developed two projects focused on the consequences of the waiting for papers for exiled people in Greece, placing the relationship with the other at the heart of her practice.The first was the project Exils, which won the Roger de Conynck Prize and was exhibited at the Recylart Gallery in Brussels, followed by Breaking Point. The latter was co-published as a book in May 2022 with Stockmans Art Books, and was exhibited at FOMU in Antwerp and at the Contretype Gallery in Brussels as part of the .TIFF selection and Propositions d’Artistes. Developing her reflections on notions of imprisonment and isolation and their consequences, she is currently working on a project about families of incarcerated people, Des Ondes (On Waves), based on a personal story. This project has received support from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, and part of it was already exhibited in 2023 at the Delta Cultural Center in Namur as part of a group exhibition. In parallel, following confrontations with her own physical and mental limits facing depression, she developped a new series of self-portraits: Revenir (Coming back). Using once again repetitive imagery and a consistent aesthetic, she explores the intersection of vulnerability, isolation, and transformation through self-portraiture. Photographing herself during moments of crisis and depression, she seeks to capture the disconnect between her inner world and reality.

Mateusz Pecyna is a Polish visual artist working with installation, moving image, objects and sound. His practice explores how technological systems and environmental stress reshape contemporary culture, especially through regimes of visibility, interfaces and synthetic forms of nature. Rather than treating technology as a neutral tool, he approaches it as a cultural agent: something that produces aesthetics, behaviours and power relations. Combining research with speculative narration, he builds layered situations that test the boundaries between documentary evidence and constructed scenarios. Pecyna holds an MA in Photography and Multimedia from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland. He has presented work widely in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and internationally, across museums and festival contexts. He currently participates in the international Heritage Lens programme, focusing on how climate change and environmental catastrophe reorganise cultural heritage, public imaginaries and the conditions of living. He was awarded the Artistic Scholarship of the City of Łódź (2025).

Chloé Azzopardi is a French transdisciplinary artist living on an island on the outskirts of Paris.
Her research revolves around ecology, new technologies and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries. She was an artist-in-residence at Villa Pérochon under the mentorship of Joan Fontcuberta. In 2025, she began a residency in regenerative design at Fondation Martell. Her work has been presented internationally in numerous festivals, galleries, and museums like Paris Photo, Rencontres d’Arles and Photo Élysée.
In 2024, she was invited by Sigma to present a large-scale exhibition combining multiple projects in Aranya and Shanghai. In 2027, she will present a solo exhibition at the Braunschweig Museum für Photographie. Supported by Fondation des Artistes for her project Tigre jaune sur fond bleu (2025), Azzopardi has received several awards and grants, including the CNAP support for contemporary documentary photography (2025).
Her first book, Non Technological Devices, will be published by Witty Books in 2026.

Sixtine de Thé is a French photographer based in Paris. Her work is expressed as a sensory cartography of the visible and the invisible, where themes such as the body, the face and the territory are prevalent. Often on the verge of disappearance or destruction, her images attempt to answer the question: what remains? She has exhibited in France, at Private Choice, Galerie Dohyang Lee, Festival Photo Saint-Germain, Fondation Luma (Arles), and abroad (Lebanon, United States). In 2021, her project Pellicules Aveugles won a jury prize at the Prix Dior pour Jeunes Talents. In 2022, she was awarded the Villa Al Qamar, a residency at the Institut Français du Liban, as well as the research and production residency at the Centre Photographique d'Île-de-France for her project Quelque chose qui noire, a photographic installation on darkness in Lebanon, which was also a ‘Coup de cœur’ at the Prix LE BAL/ADAGP in 2023. Born in France in 1991, Sixtine de Thé lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021, after studying art history at the École Normale Supérieure and the École du Louvre.

Bertrand Cavalier unfolds his artistic thinking across photography, sculpture, drawing, and video, each medium enriching the others. His work shifts from a politics of the gaze to a logic of sensation, where art becomes a bodily experience rather than mere representation. In this way, his work is part of a contemporaneity that echoes the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, offering a reflection on our ability to communicate and share ideas beyond words, through sensations that resonate with our bodies and our spaces. — Olivier Grasser Bertrand Cavalier has published with Fw:Books (NL, 2020) and Spector Books (DE, 2024). He is the laureate of the Prix Ville de Bruxelles – Centrale for Contemporary Art (BE, 2025) and has exhibited at FOMU Antwerp (BE), Photoforum Pasquart Biel (CH), BIP – Biennale de l’Image Possible, Liège (BE), and FRAC Orléans (FR). He received the Sébastien van der Straten Fund Award (2019) and was a resident at Artwell Amsterdam (NL, 2021) and Cité internationale des arts, Paris (FR, 2023). His work has been published in Artpress, Mouvement (both FR), Camera Austria (AT) and l’art même (BE).

Sasha Velichko (b. 1993, Slonim, Belarus) is a research-based artist whose practice spans photography, installation and new media. Her work investigates propaganda, post-truth, manipulations and trauma. Trained in radiophysics, she integrates scientific logic and analytical methods into her artistic process. After being politically convicted and persecuted in Belarus, she was forced to flee the country(2021) and has lived in political exile in Warsaw. Her projects have been exhibited internationally: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Circulation(s) Festival, Singapore International Photography Festival. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at Les Boutographies(2025), Photo Essay Award at SEEEU Festival in Tokyo (2025), finalist of the Star Photobook Dummy Award (2025), shortlisted for the Images Vevey Book Award(2025). Sasha is represented by Jednostka Gallery.

Ilias Lois (b. Athens) is an artist whose work considers the notion of home, life in European urban centers, and the materiality of objects and technologies. His practice pays particular attention to the act of translating the three-dimensional world into two-dimensional surfaces—and the reverse process that may follow. He is especially drawn to photographic sequencing and the possibilities of non-linear storytelling. In the summer of 2024, he earned a Master’s degree in Photography: Research and Methodology from UniWA. He contributes to photography education as a tutor at the Hellenic Centre of Photography and Paper Drop Lab (founder), where he leads project development and experimental curation workshops. He is also an editor at Velvet Eyes, an online photography magazine. On the recommendation of the publishing house Void, he became Future Talent ’24.

Sasha Velichko (b. 1993, Slonim, Belarus) is a research-based artist whose practice spans photography, installation and new media. Her work investigates propaganda, post-truth, manipulations and trauma. Trained in radiophysics, she integrates scientific logic and analytical methods into her artistic process. After being politically convicted and persecuted in Belarus, she was forced to flee the country(2021) and has lived in political exile in Warsaw. Her projects have been exhibited internationally: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Circulation(s) Festival, Singapore International Photography Festival. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at Les Boutographies(2025), Photo Essay Award at SEEEU Festival in Tokyo (2025), finalist of the Star Photobook Dummy Award (2025), shortlisted for the Images Vevey Book Award(2025). Sasha is represented by Jednostka Gallery.