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GUP Magazine, an international authoritative publication on photography, connects its communities with the sharpest conceptual photography, the latest photo books, and compelling writings about the contemporary world of photography. As an overall platform for photography we publish four premium print issues a year, deliver daily online content, and produce self-initiated book publications.

15/10/2025

RAUL GUILLERMO
1990, Peru

This series by Raul Guillermo began in Peru in 2022, sparked by a local TV commercial that revealed the gap between lived reality and cultural ideals of masculinity. Drawing on memories of his grandfather’s belief that “men should not cry,” the project reflects on how inherited notions of hombría—strength, courage, respect—still shape society today.

Through portraits made across Peru, he explores masculinity as a fluid, multifaceted experience, inviting dialogue and vulnerability. The work challenges rigid expectations, opening space for men to express themselves without fear of judgment.

13/10/2025

SHASHWAT DAS
1998, India

Brought up in a Probashi Bengali household in Delhi, Shashwat Das has long carried stories of migration, impermanence, and movement. From sketching childhood memories to photographing landscapes on the road with Posto, their trusted motorcycle, movement continues to define their practice.

In their project Jungle Mahal, they journey through Purulia’s Ajodhya Hill, sacred to indigenous communities yet scarred by colonial extraction and state-led displacement. Using archival memory, Ferro-Botanical prints, and performative traditions like Chhau, the work traces resistance, survival, and the fractured relationship between land and people.

Their practice extends from witnessing Delhi’s historic protests in Sadak to reimagining a visual archive of Bangladesh, the homeland their grandparents were forced to leave. Across these journeys, he explores how migration, memory, and identity are continually in motion.

12/10/2025

STEFANIE LANGEHOVEN
1980, South Africalangenhoven

Langenhoven’s project, I Do Not Want to Become My Mother, explores her complex relationship with her mother against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa. Her mother, expected to suppress her own dreams for family and societal roles, struggled silently with depression, a path Langenhoven feared she might follow.

Through archival family photos and performative self-portraiture, Langenhoven reimagines memories, uncovering the intertwined experiences of herself and her mother, and reflecting on how society shapes women’s lives across generations.

Her work has received international recognition, including the Female in Focus Award (2022) and the LensCulture Art Photography Award (2024), and has been exhibited globally, from Berlin to New York, and featured in publications such as The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, and Aesthetica Magazine.

06/10/2025

QUINCEY SPAGNOLETTI
1991, the USA

Her work confronts the expectations placed on women, especially how they are meant to act and perform for society. Drawing from personal narratives and conversations with maternal figures, she explores memory, inheritance, and womanhood through objects and staged spaces. Using the camera as both mirror and tool, her practice moves between emotion and control, questioning how identity is shaped, disrupted, and passed on.

05/10/2025

TOMISLAV MARCIJUŠ
1990, Croatia

Our embrace will be long, like the waiting

This series traces a story of family, loss, and belonging, with my mother at its heart. Moving between Baranja and her native village in Bosnia, her journeys are not returns but rituals of memory — walking borders carved by war, politics, and time.

Through coal, gold, candle wax, and everyday objects, I explore work, value, transience, and the quiet strength of a woman who endures and reconnects what history tried to separate. It is a story of migration, memory, and love that stretches across absence, silence, and time.

02/10/2025

NSIKANABASI EFFIONG
2001, Nigeria

Nsikanabasi Effiong is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores the quiet depth of human experience. Rooted in themes of identity, mental health, and faith, his work seeks to hold space for emotion and meaning, preserving the fleeting moments that often go unnoticed. For Nsikanabasi, photography is a way to understand the world, to navigate the complexities of life, and to engage in conversations that matter.

30/09/2025

We are happy to present to you our latest edition of Fresh Eyes 2025, vol. 2! Featuring an incredible set of talents from all around the world, we are bringing contemporary photography visionaries right to your table. ❤️

Don't miss out on the chance to have this beauty in your home. You can order your copy via [email protected]

P.S. Keep your eyes open for the next open call that is about to be announced soon! 👀

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24/09/2025

Still in awe from the opening of and the launch of FRESH EYES 2025 vol.2 . What a week! It was so lovely meeting you all and putting a face to your beautiful photographs. 🌞 Thank you for coming and for your incredible contributions! We had people arriving from different corners of Europe, but also as far as India, the USA, Argentina, and Hong Kong. Soon, we will share more pictures from the rest of the week and, of course, of the new book.

Stay tuned!

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17/09/2025

ALEJANDRA OROSCO
1988, Peru

Alejandra Orosco is a Peruvian visual artist based in Urubamba, Cusco. Her work moves between tradition and the contemporary, telling the stories of communities whose practices face globalization. Recently, she has focused on the narrative power of textile art, drawing from pre-Columbian symbols, natural resources, and the effects of climate change and tourism. Alongside her personal projects, she co-directs Maleza, an arts center in the Sacred Valley that won the 2024 Eugene Smith–Howard Chapnick Award.

15/09/2025

MAYLI STERKENDRIES

1992, Belgium

After the death of both my parents, I felt a kind of emptiness I couldn't quite define. In an attempt to create space for my grief and process the loss, I booked a journey to India. A country I intuitively sensed as healing, raw, and real. India revealed itself as a place where life and death are inseparably intertwined. In the chaos of the streets, the silence of the temples, and the rituals along the riverbanks, I found a reflection of my own inner process. The images I created there are quiet witnesses to that journey, moments of stillness, beauty, chaos, and peace. The title Resurgence refers to what slowly unfolded within me: a kind of rebirth. Not of the old, but of something new. In India, I not only said goodbye to my parents, but also learned to accept their death as part of my life. These images are my way of telling that story.

14/09/2025

MATIAS SOUSA
2003, Portugal

Matias Vieira Sousa develops a multidisciplinary practice that moves fluidly between still image, moving image, and object. Rooted in the sensorial experience of insularity, his work emerges from a deep listening to the world — where territory, memory, and identity are not fixed points, but shifting grounds of resonance. Attuned to the fragile architectures of perception, Matias constructs visual and spatial devices that oscillate between light and shadow, presence and disappearance. Whether through hand-built projectors, glass sculptures or even time-based installations, he explores the ways in which bodies, landscapes, and affective memories inhabit one another. Through gesture, light, and matter, Matias invites viewers into a space of suspension: a threshold where what is latent gains form, and where the act of looking becomes a form of remembering, constructing, and resisting.

10/09/2025

LUCY BENTLEY
2004, The UK

Lucy is a photographer based between Cornwall and Bristol. Her work is a visually poetic exploration of landscape, and of an intimate and often unsettling sense of place. This project, Morvoren (‘Mermaid’ in Cornish), draws on my childhood interest in local folklore to explore the psychological landscape of growing up in Cornwall, revealing the hidden femininity of the Celtic county. The guiding metaphor of the ‘Morvoren’ alludes to the cautionary origin of Cornish mermaid tales now applied to the age of anxiety concerning the natural world, as well as the social issues deep-rooted within my county. Intimate memories of the land and its ancient lore evoke a sense of native estrangement, plunging the viewer into an alien country.

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