• Stéphanie Roland (BE)

An artist’s book that combines the narratives of seven phantom islands in a non-linear, fragmented logic, from which a meta-island emerges.

• 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

• Hyung-Geun Park (KR)

A reflection on the landscapes of South Korea’s largest island, where many of today’s tourist sites were once scenes of mass killings.

• Hyung-Geun Park (KR)

Views of a river from two perspectives highlighting the dichotomy between the idealised images of North Korea and its harsh reality.

• Angeniet Berkers (NL)

The compelling history of the programme to provide the Third Reich with a new generation of leaders, focusing on the personal consequences for those involved.

• Lana Mesić (NL)

An examination of the role and meaning of the enemy image in the complex history and contested borders that shaped the countries of former Yugoslavia.

• 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.

• Tanja Engelberts (NL)

A photographic exploration of the offshore oil and gas industry, highlighting the raw structures on the sea while evoking a sense of awe and guilt.

• 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.

• 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.

• Jana Hartmann (DE)

A photographic research on the scientific exploration and conquest of nature from the beginnings of alchemy until the present day.

• 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.

• Peter Dekens (BE)

Exploring the remnants of destruction along the Ypres Salient in Belgium, 100 years after the end of the First World War.

• 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.

• Miyuki Okuyama (JP/NL)

Documenting the offspring of Japanese soldiers and Indonesian women, born during the Pacific War, now living in the Netherlands.

• Reinout van den Bergh (NL)

A portrait of the miners who lived in the mine housing estate in Beringen, where life and work went hand-in-hand.

• Daan Paans (NL)

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