Oksana Salamatina

Born in Camaguey, Cuba in 1955, Demi depicts a vibrant and intimate universe centred upon children, but hers is neither a sugar-coated nor an innocent vision. Demi paints luminous and powerful children whose lives have been exposed to the vagaries of the adult world. Demi has first-hand knowledge of the plight of children whose fates are altered by devastating events....

The photographs presented in Sergei Romanov, made with the ambrotype process—resulting in one-of-a-kind images captured on glass—represent a new stage in photography, the so-called "antiquarian avant-garde," that is, the radical rediscovery of obsolete photographic techniques. Sergei Romanov goes further than any other contemporary photographer in pushing his medium into imagistic territory never approached before, because he has ignored all the...