The artists nominated by

Alina Maria Frieske (b. 1994) studied Visual Communication in the Netherlands and finished her Master in Photography in 2019 at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Her interest is focused on the assembled image and its classification. Thereby she works with collage techniques and illustration to explore the process between individual and collective viewpoints. The work reflects on visuals sourced online from social media accounts or search engine results. The artist collects the images based on commonality in depiction and repeating patterns in gesture and choice of surrounding. Through digital techniques and physical interventions, single fragments get extracted and multiplied into an overall picture. Thereby each element in the picture contains a collection of different moments in time.

Alina Maria Frieske was also nominated for Futures by Hyères Festival.

Agnieszka Sejud is a photographer, visual artist, activist, part of artistic duo KWAS. She is living and working in Poland. Sejud is currently studying BA Photography at Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.

Her practice works with photography, collage and installation, often experiments with the medium. She mainly explores topics of identity, personal freedom and systems of oppressions. In her life and work, she questions existing rules and binding canons. Sejud’s main inspirations are daily life, vulgarity, ugliness, dreams and visions.

David Uzochukwu (b. 1998) is an Austrian-Nigerian photographer. He delved into self portraiture in his teenage years. His work speaks on resilience and belonging: digitally reconfigured landscapes become a refuge for both strong and vulnerable bodies.

Uzochukwu has previously exhibited at Bozar (BE), Lagos Photo Festival (NG), Off Biennale Dakar (SN), Photo Vogue Festival (IT), and Unseen Amsterdam (NL). He currently studies philosophy in Berlin.

Ana Zibelnik (b. 1995, Ljubljana) is a photographer currently based in the Netherlands. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2018 and is currently completing her MA degree in film and photographic theory at Leiden University.

Through long term projects she explores the topics of death, immortality as well as the relationship between photography and extinction. She is part of PARALLEL - European Photo Based Platform, Haute Photographie Talents and was selected as the GUP New Talent of the year 2020.

Michael Swann is a photographic artist currently completing his MA at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).

His work explores aspects of religious belief, mysticism and phenomenology and aims to understand how photography can be used to communicate such themes. Michael’s latest body of work, Noema (2020), follows the search for the Virgin Mary’s presence in two locations in which she has reportedly been seen.