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Yogurt is a curatorial platform looking for new directions in contemporary photography. The Paper Room is the Yogurt's bookshop in Rome.

Yogurt is a curatorial platform focused on contemporary photography and visual arts.

21/08/2025

Non Fiction
by Henri Kisielewski

“To give truth the colour and narrative force of fiction,” this was Truman Capote’s ambition when he wrote “In Cold Blood”, the true account of a quadruple homicide in 1960s Kansas. This is the starting point for Non Fiction, a work of lyrical documentary that explores the porous boundary between fact and fiction in photography.
The premise is simple: is it possible to photograph the world as it is – through chance encounters and local news stories – and create a series that feels like fiction?
Since its beginnings, photography has had a complex relation to truth: even the most ‘objective’ portraits will necessarily involve decisions relating to location, light and pose. In Non Fiction, this tension is pushed to its extreme through a variety of visual strategies, deployed to blur the lines. In the current context of conspiracy theories, fake news and AI generated imagery it is more pertinent than ever to reflect on our relationship with reality and how it is mediated through images.
In Non Fiction images based on chance encounters accumulate and coalesce, forming a narrative that is fluid and multidirectional. It is up to the audience to interpret this narrative, to find keys into it. Framed in this way, daily life is transformed: every window hides secrets, every person becomes a protagonist, every object becomes a clue or a piece of evidence.
It’s all true, it’s all false, but one thing is certain: truth is at least as strange as fiction.

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16/08/2025

Other Joys
by Alice Poyzer
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Other Joys is an ongoing body of work that highlights my special interests as someone on the spectrum, whilst also discussing the difficulties I face as an autistic woman. The process of making these photographs provides me with a safe space to unmask – something that I cannot always access in day to day life. What was once a fear of being deemed different has now become a celebration of self-acceptance and understanding.
Throughout the work there are visual comments on my own autistic traits, such as my need for sensory comfort and how easy it is for me to be overwhelmed. The self-portraits featured, all different in tonality, expression and mood, mirror how I feel in real life; forever moulding myself to fit in with others, whilst the repetition of certain symbols suggests my need for consistent routine. Overall, Other Joys is a project made to ignite a conversation on how we can improve autistic representation, particularly surrounding women on the spectrum who are often unheard and underestimated.

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11/08/2025

Elena 1
by Juliana Gómez Quijano

My grandfather always believed that the astronauts who traveled to outer space were men. Men born and educated in the industrialized nations of planet Earth. He never believed it possible that those astronauts could come from the periphery of the world, or that maybe they would be women. His mind was filled with images of the footprints of Buzz Aldrin on the lunar regolith, the photo of Neil Armstrong with the flag of the United States, the silhouette in shadow of both of them over the craters of the Sea of Tranquility. Elena 1 appeals to the strength of the imagination to transform the story of the trip to outer space, and specifically, to the moon, that was documented, narrated and lived by men. How decisive would it have been had one or more women been part of the missions that traveled to our satellite? To hear their voices in the recordings of the historical archives, see their photos on the covers of magazines and newspapers? How would our imaginations have been formed? Perhaps, we would have led more trips to outer space in movies, had starring roles in science fiction books, and had our footprints on the moon. Our position of power in outer space would be unrealized, with practices and policies that represent the humane aspect of women. The Elena 1 mission is a trip to the moon starring women from the city of Medellín, Colombia, women who as children dreamed of becoming astronauts. I use archival resources produced in the NASA Apollo missions to challenge and reimagine a new narrative created from the periphery. I also work with the records created by the women who were part of the mission, and in so doing, provide a new voice to tell the story of the trip to the Moon.

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05/08/2025

High Visibility (Blaze Orange)
by Jaclyn Wright

High Visibility (Blaze Orange) uses debris collected from improvised gun ranges on public lands to create photographic installations that explore the impacts and material traces of late capitalism and settler colonialism on the landscape of the U.S. West. Through the use of original images, archival photographs and maps, and performances, the work shows the crucial role photography plays in codifying land use. The work explores how these codes manifest themselves in behaviors observed in Utah’s West Desert.
Much of the West Desert, the ancestral home of the Goshute people, is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It is classified by the U.S. Government as “public lands.” While the term “public” implies land open to all use, significant acreage is privately leased for mining and cattle ranching. The West Desert is located on the western side of the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake is rapidly drying up due to drought, population growth, and water diversion for agriculture. The leasing of public land, capitalist water use, and human-caused ecological change are linked to the drying of the Great Salt Lake, threatening millions of migratory birds and those who live in Salt Lake City.
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03/08/2025

Other of the best entries from Charta Award 2025!

A glimpse into some of the most powerful and visionary projects we received this year.
Each image is representative of a broader body of work submitted to the Award.

In order of appearance:

-To Love, To Remember by Andrew Zou
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-There Is No Death by Jason Hendardy
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-Alles heeft zijn tijd / Everything in its time by Caroline Sohie
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-Advent by Oksana Meister
(.meister)

-Dear parents, please send me bacon and Pervitin by Uschi Gross
()

Charta Award 2025
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01/08/2025

A home with no roof
by Sara De Brito Faustino

Sara De Brito Faustino graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in photography from ECAL. She lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Over the course of eleven years of practicing the medium of photography, she has developed her own artistic identity. At the core of her practice, she explores the materiality of objects and the body, highlighting textures, colors, folds, wrinkles, fissures, strengths and weaknesses. Her artistic approach, infused with emotions, is focused on the intimate; self-portraiture and intimate space; home. Beyond technique, she uses photography to transcend emotions and a tumultuous personal history. Everyday subjects and objects, mundane elements, are her preferred subjects. Sara assembles them in a way that they don’t translate a vision of the ordinary but of the extraordinary. She transforms her daily life into a theatrical stage on which she play/reenacts her own story.
This project is about the home where I grew up, a place where strangeness and the familiarity of the ordinary existed alongside. Being an intimate space, it should have been nurturing and reassuring. And yet, it was the scene of painful scenes. Today, I see this space as threatening. Uncomfortable, dysfunctional, my home is the witness to scars from the past.
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30/07/2025

Other of the best entries from Charta Award 2025!

A glimpse into some of the most powerful and visionary projects we received this year.
Each image is representative of a broader body of work submitted to the Award.

In order of appearance:

-The South Is Infinite Yet Finite by Zhu Gaocanyue
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-The Extraordinary Supernatural Paracosm of Sharday Swanepoel by Sharday Swanepoel
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-The Refractories by Gabriela Téllez

-El GOCE OTRO by Almendra Fantilli
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-Meteorologica by Mari Kolcheva
(.kolcheva)

-Home: A Trilogy by Tianyun Chen
(.imaging)

-Ella de arriba by Xavier Martin
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-On the outskirts of a large forest by Dalmonia Rognean
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-Perfectly stiff body by Artur Pławski
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-There Round the Corner in the Deep by Katya Selezneva
(.ost)

Charta Award 2025
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29/07/2025

The Rocjet’s Red Glare
by Barbara Diener

The Rocket’s Red Glare uses the life of instrumental German rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun, to explore the selective way history is told. This series challenges the often dual retelling of significant 20th century events, starting in Nazi-era Germany and culminating in the moon landing. My interest in interpreting this chain of events comes from my own reckoning with history and my complicated German heritage surrounding World War II. [...]

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23/07/2025

Other of the best entries from Charta Award 2025!

A glimpse into some of the most powerful and visionary projects we received this year.
Each image is representative of a broader body of work submitted to the Award.

In order of appearance:

-Treasure Trove by Natasha Lozinskaya
(.polo)

-Reinventario by Laura Fiorio
()

-Terra di diatomee by Gaia Maggio
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-Karst by Nika McKagen
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-L’albergo della lontananza by Federica Mambrini
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-Origin by Lin Xue
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-Sacred feminine by Ornella Orlandini
()

Charta Award 2025
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21/07/2025

Other of the best entries from Charta Award 2025!

A glimpse into some of the most powerful and visionary projects we received this year.
Each image is representative of a broader body of work submitted to the Award.

In order of appearance:

-The Naked Truth by Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley
(, .shipley)

-My Mother’s Garden by Uta Genilke
(.dame)

-Silent Symphony by Ina Königs
()

-Sléttan, Traces of Herring & Sléttan Yzta Annesið (The Farthest North) by Jón Helgi Pálmason
()

-Under Which Tree Did Goethe Sleep? by Ugo Milano
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-Excerpts from a dream I had last night by Avishkar Jadon
()

-Hotchkiss by Christian Badach
()

Charta Award 2025
Info in Bio

05/07/2025

Padre
by Marisol Mendez

Padre is a personal and political excavation of masculinity, approached through a feminist lens. Rooted in my family history and shaped by my Latin American heritage, the project interrogates the deeply embedded structures of machismo that govern not only men’s behaviors but also the emotional landscapes of those around them. Oscillating between social critique and self-inquiry, Padre traces a lineage of absence, tenderness, violence, and care, mapping the way masculine identity is inherited, performed, and, at times, unlearned. [...]

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03/07/2025

.editions is waiting for you at the book fair of , organized by .

Come visit us at Collège Saint-Jacques from 10 to 12 July.

We’re excited to launch “Waiting for the Snow” by Katarzyna & Marianne Wasowska (, .wola) as a preview in Arles.

And we’ll have 3 amazing book signings:

Friday, July 11
h17:30 - 18:30: “I Saw a Tree Bearing Stones in the Place of Apples and Pears” by Emilia Martin ();

h18:30 - 19:30: “Fear of Mirrors” by Alba Zari ()

Saturday, July 12
h17:30 - 19:30: “Waiting for the Snow” by Katarzyna & Marianne Wasowska (, .wola)

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