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VISUAL CULTURE FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

20/06/2025

★ Friday Feature

Paris is elusive chaos. After living in Tokyo for over 20 years, this city seemed new and complex to me. For the past two years, I have lived in the suburbs and have always looked at the city as an outsider.
People in Paris are quietly separated. This is not due to any visible conflict, but rather each person has created a safe zone, respecting each other’s space. Diversity is ensured through the gathering of similar communities and the sharing of “incomprehensibility”.

This sense of distance made me start walking along the Périphérique, the ring road that encircles Paris. While moving back and forth between the inside and the outside, I photographed the ambiguous space that stretches between the two. In this repetitive motion of rejection, acceptance, and separation again, I began to capture the urban landscape as well as my own inner self and my mental distance from others.

Périphérique is not just geographical boundary, but symbolize social, cultural, and mental separation. Its circles are dotted with intermediate areas that have spilled over from planning and consciousness, piled with rubble, temporary dwellings, small gardens, and human traces. It is a landscape that has become invisible in everyday life, yet speaks simultaneously of human tenacity and indifference.

This project is an attempt to visualize not only places, but also the “transparent boundaries” that exist between people. Through overlooked landscapes, I hope to create an opportunity to confront the social and mental separation that we unconsciously hold.

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Would like to show your work in our next Friday Feature? Send us your projects through the submissions page on our website. (Link in Bio)

18/06/2025

Community Collection • New week, new goodies straight from your cameras! 😍

Congrats to everyone in this week’s collection!

Let’s keep photography on strong, intentional, and fresh together!

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16/06/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Murat Taner

13/06/2025

★ Friday Feature

During the summer in the extreme northern latitudes, the concept of night
dissolves, the sun never sets, remaining suspended in an infinite twilight.

These images capture that magical and ethereal light of the midnight sun between Finland and Norway, telling the story of the encounter between nature and light, revealing surreal nuances and atmospheres that challenge the perception of day and night.

The sun, instead of disappearing beyond the horizon, remains suspended in a fragile balance, dyeing the sky with unique colors. This visual experience is a tribute to the cosmic wonder of our planet, where time seems to stop and light becomes an eternal presence, evoking the thin line between reality and dream.

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Would like to show your work in our next Friday Feature? Send us your projects through the submissions page on our website. (Link in Bio)

11/06/2025

Community Collection • A brand new set of visual gems found on submitted by our community members. 😍

Congrats to everyone in this week’s collection!

Let’s keep photography on strong, intentional, and fresh together!

09/06/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Gonçalo Saraiva

06/06/2025

★ Friday Feature

‘Neither Here Nor There’ is a visual diary, a personal journey, and a recollection of thoughts that lingers on a moment of restlessness and the feeling of being endlessly s swept away by the current, drifting back and forth without ever reaching the shore.

The sea is a dominant theme in my narrative. It symbolizes the distance between me, living in England, and my country of origin, Italy. But it is also, above all, the place that brings me back to my childhood memories, to the solace of my family, while also serving as a reminder of their absence.

As I confront my own vulnerabilities and all the questions that I cannot answer, I pause to observe my children and their very different personalities. I reflect on their shared resilience, awareness, and receptive patience; a sensitivity deeply rooted in our culture, shaped by affection, sacrifice, community, and a strong sense of hope for a world governed by unpredictable forces that destabilise rather than unite. Now more than ever.

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02/06/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Mike

30/05/2025

★ Friday Feature

Want to be part of our next print issue? Check out broad.community/freedom for details about our ongoing open call. (Link in bio) Submission deadline: May 31.

‘Empty Spain’ is a term coined by Sergio del Molino in his 2019 book of the same name. The name has since entered everyday vocabulary to describe those areas of the Iberian Peninsula where population density can, in some cases, be comparable to that of Lapland.

Empty Spain is not just a demographic territory, but a historical, philosophical, and a mental nation, deeply ingrained in its inhabitants, especially in those who have left it and those visiting it for the first time. It is a fluid outcome of specific historical and artistic processes that have shaped an imaginary which has only recently begun to change.

In the end, the Empty Spain is this: a vial of essences. It may be empty, but it still holds the aromas of the past because it has been kept tightly sealed.

I lived in this part of Spain for a year during the Erasmus program, specifically in the Autonomous Region of Murcia, before moving to Barcelona the following year, a journey similar, though only topographically, to the one taken by many people from the interior before me.

The region of Murcia was a fundamental experience: the area stretching from the capital to the sea, nestled between the Subbaetic Mountains and Cartagena, was for me like a barren arena of the time, one of the many that make up the region, where I have seen and heard this concept flowing in the wind and dust.

Crossing them during my wanderings was both a formative process and a meaningful companion to my personal growth and to the deep loneliness I felt at that time.

It was a phase of life rich with internal earthquakes, and in that landscape—which, as Molino says, is an intimate description, since a landscape in itself describes nothing. I found a space I could dialogue with: the projection, I hope a shared one, of an eternal past and of a frequency, increasingly evident, of a future sense.

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28/05/2025

Community Collection • A whole new set of goodies found on submitted by our community members. 😍

Want to be part of our next print issue? Check out broad.community/freedom for details about our ongoing open call. (Link in bio) Submission deadline: May 31.

Congrats to everyone in this week’s collection!

Let’s keep photography on strong, intentional, and fresh together!

26/05/2025

x Broadmag x Monday High Five • capture by Emmanuel Torfs

23/05/2025

Join our Freedom Issue! Submissions are open for our upcoming print issue!

Open Call Deadline: May 31 2025

Visit the project page at www.broad.community/freedom (Link in Bio)

Few words feel more overused—or more misused—these days than freedom. It’s been stretched, politicized, paraded, and diluted. Co-opted by power, sold back to us in slogans. And yet, at its core, it remains a basic human longing. We all want to be free.

But what does that actually mean in 2025? What does freedom look like, feel like, in your own life, your community, your lens? What would you do if you were completely free, not just from rules or expectations, but from fear, pressure, judgment? What would you make, and what might that kind of freedom change?

We invite photographers of all backgrounds, disciplines, and points of view to explore this theme, literally, conceptually, emotionally. Whether your interpretation is bold or quiet, direct or poetic, political or deeply personal, we’re here for it.

Think of this issue as an open space to interrogate, celebrate, or challenge the idea of freedom.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. But we do encourage you to share the why behind your work, your thoughts, your questions, what moved you to make it.

We’re looking for images and insights.

Join us!

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