The chosen projects engage with pressing issues of our time. Upon closer examination, the works can be grouped into distinct thematic categories. One recurring theme is the exploration of urban space, addressing topics such as urban development, the impact on infrastructure by major events like the Olympic Games, the housing crisis, and even the imaginative use of urban traces as fictional crime scenes. Other projects shed light on the structural disadvantages faced by female identifying individuals, touching on subjects like motherhood and its perception in the art world and the patriarchal dominance in the healthcare system.
A significant number of the works revolve around the concept of belonging. The artists delve into shifting notions of home and homeland, investigate family histories and narrate personal stories of departure and return.
Photography is used throughout these projects as a medium for dialogue, creating exchange between the photographers and their subjects. This approach allows us as viewers to gain insight into diverse life experiences, generations and subcultures. Additionally, the contributions foster a dialogue between individual artistic positions. Works that use traditional photographic methods are deliberately combined with experimental approaches that question, expand, and reinterpret the medium. For example, classic documentary styles and projects utilising archival photographic material sit alongside works that incorporate artistic staging or digital manipulation. (Excerpt from introductory text: Photography in Dialogue, p. 3).