The Unknown Swimmer
A yearning, profound, unspoken
To return to our place of origin
Back to the womb-wet, womb-dark
Womb-silence
Or some deep ancestral longing
For homecoming
To be subsumed
In the arms of the life-mother
In the rise and fall of tides
In the half-life of a breath
In the green secret places in the water
In the cadence of a phrase
So deeply held
So sacred
So perfect
(written by the unknown swimmer)
The Japanese word Ikigai describes Jason Reekie’s connection to photography. The finding of joy in life through purpose. Every new project becomes the purpose, beginning a fresh search for meaning by interpreting mine and others ideas, and turning them into images.
Sebastian Szczepanowski’s series takes us on a journey on public transport, where we sit beside strangers, present in body but out of reach until we arrive.
Danika Green’s series explores the relationship between personal environments we create and the subsequent identities we form within them.
Vanessa Kuzay creates an intimate and poetic narrative about the origins and the bond that is created between a mother and her child.
French photographer Aurélien Lulah Ferreira captures a New York with people living lives parallel to the American Dream.
