Beach Epiphany
Rodrigo Koraicho is a photographer and visual artist based in São Paulo.
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Eau à Eau
A visual project inspired by the Haitian Vodou spirit LaSirenn, to explore water as a metaphor for identity, transformation and feminine strength.
Written by Sophie Ackroyd
Two Sides of Madrid
Exploring the chasm between Athletico and Real Madrid.
Written by Jesse Dean-Smith
Notice the Water You’re Already In
Exploring the relationship between water and attention, considering what our obsession with measurement, productivity, and outcomes has taken from us.
Written by Claudia Neuschulz
Logistics and Leviathan
Freddie Smith explores how both films reveal the hidden violence and scale of global industry, reshaping how we perceive time, labour and the exploitation of the sea.
Written by Freddie Smith
Omi L’eko
This photo essay explores water as a living force that shapes identity, survival, and memory in Lagos.
Written by Ayodeji Ayodele
The career of a dictator’s son
Exploring the footballing story of Al-Saadi Gaddafi, who was able to play in Serie A due to his father’s connections.
Written by Eli Haidari
FLOWING BETWEEN PARALLELS
Multimedia artist Rawz follows a small stream in Oxfordshire that bridges one of England’s sharpest socio-economic divides.
Written by Rawz
The Round Lake
Laila Ghaffar traces how The Round Lake collapses dystopian fiction into present reality, exposing the colonial and political structures driving water scarcity in Pakistan.
Written by Laila Ghaffar
Tukur Ridwan’s Poems
A series of poems by Tukur Ridwan exploring water through spirituality, ritual and marine imagery, tracing the sea as a site of rebirth, longing and transformation.
Written by Tukur Ridwan
The Coast And Divine Water
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A Kitsch Expression
Indera Tamara interviews digital artist Vince Ibay, a rising talent reshaping popular culture through innovative 3D scanning and virtual reality.
Written by Indera Tamara
Freshta
A conversation with the West London raised DJ and radio host.
Written by Dillon Gohil
Anthea Spivey
Fourth Floor interviews documentary photographer Anthea Spivey to discuss her work, focusing on her project on albinism in Senegal.
Written by Jai Toor
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Water
Water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom. Few molecules are smaller. Yet we are two-thirds water and require it to live — life as we know it could not evolve without water. This open call gathers photo essays, poetry, film and visual work exploring water as memory, ritual, survival, identity and force.
Submissions are closed. The call stays on the site until January 2027.
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Oceanic Birthright
Mira Gupta explores water as a space of memory, politics and healing, tracing the intersections of marine ecology, colonialism and surf culture through Black and Indigenous histories.
Written by Mira Gupta
Tainted Waters
A photo series by Prince El-sha Martey documenting life along Ghana’s polluted rivers, lagoons and coastlines.
Written by Prince El-sha Martey
The Undesirables
In the mid-1940s, hundreds of Chinese seamen were secretly deported from Liverpool.
Written by Jai Toor