• Daniel Chatard (DE)

An investigation of the impact of brown coal extraction in Germany’s Rhineland, showing the emotional and physical toll of the mining operations.

• Ringel Goslinga (NL)

A kaleidoscopic view of the colonial history of the Toraja people on Sulawesi, and a study of animistic patterns and traditional weaving forms

• Mafalda Rakoš (AT)

Questioning the impossibility of captivating someone else’s inner world through photography through portraits and conversations with four protagonists.

• Pablo Cabado (AR)

A slow exploration of a deserted island in Patagonia, home to the ruins of an experimental fusion reactor built by German scientist Ronald Richter.

• Cécile Hupin (BE)
• Katherine Longly (BE)

Comparing dream to reality by giving a voice to those who won or came close to winning a jackpot, for better or for worse.

• Stephen Cornford (GB)

A colourful speculation on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record.

• Kristof Titeca (BE)

A collage of decorative and political works from Nasser Road, Kampala, a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud.

• Regine Petersen (DE)

An allegorical tale about the world’s most prominent Passion Play and its inherent antisemitism, and daily life in the village of Oberammergau.

• Zindzi Zwietering (NL)

The prospect of Day Zero, the day that the city of Cape Town would run out of water, questions how urban citizens relate to a changing earth.

• Crystal Bennes (US)

Extensive research on the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of the women involved.

• Marc Schroeder (LU)

A documentary research into the deportations of ethnic Germans from Romania to Soviet forced labour camps on Stalin’s order in 1944.

• Sheung Yiu (HK/FI)

An observation of the quest to develop an improved interpretation model of satellite data for remote sensing research.

• Mathias de Lattre (FR)

A research project on psilocybin, mycology and medicine, stemming from the search for a therapy for the photographer’s bipolar mother.

• Valeria Cherchi (IT)

A photo-text book that attempts to decode the complex kidnapping phenomenon on Sardinia between the 1960s and the 1990s.

• Oliver Leu (DE)

A reflection on both the visible representations of colonialism in present-day Belgium, and the hidden traces of its gruesome past.

• Lucas Leffler (BE)

Over the course of 50 years, a former employee of a photographic factory secretly recovered tonnes of silver from a wastewater creek in Antwerp.

• Lynn Alleva Lilley (US)

About the wondrous life of the horseshoe crab, a ‘living fossil’, pondering our place in time, in evolution and in the whole of all life forms.

• Natascha Libbert (NL)

About life in the technical zone around locks, ports and ships, following the renovation of the sea lock in IJmuiden, port access to Amsterdam.

• Simon Brugner (AT)

A combination of a visual study and cultural-historical research findings on the ‘arsenic eaters’ from the pre-20th century rural population of the Alps.

• Anna Püschel (DE/FR)

A semi-scientific research study of synaesthesia, in which Püschel questions her own perception of reality.

• Polymorf (NL)

An intersection of essays and projects showing the current and future possibilities of scent in media and communication design.

• Karin Krijgsman (NL)
• Suzan Geldhoff (NL)

An investigation of photography in the digital world, focusing on the appropriation of photos found online.

• Daan Paans (NL)

A documentary photographic research about people who wish to extend the human life span or even aim to become immortal.

• Karin Krijgsman (NL)
• Suzan Geldhoff (NL)

An investigation of photography in the digital world, focusing on the use of Google Street View.

• Martijn Honselaar (NL)
• Claudia den Boer (NL)

The discovery of a hidden world of open and meaningful spaces when researching the ribbon structure of the city of Tilburg.