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Sentimental Value
Sentimental Value

Photography by by Andrii Halishchev

In this project, I tried to show how the photography function could change over time. In 2020, I shot a roll of film of an abandoned airfield with dozens of old jets which I recently discovered near my hometown, Vovchansk, Ukraine.

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photographycarte blanche magazineJune 10, 2026Andrii HalishchevComment
poetics of the eye
poetics of the eye

Photography by Ruxandra Mitache

At the beginning of a new year, I walked the same streets as a ritual: quiet houses, untitled small gardens, sparkling waters, and windows shaping the light before sunset. 

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photographycarte blanche magazineJune 10, 2026Ruxandra MitacheComment
My Haunted Houses
My Haunted Houses

Translation by Phyllis Aronoff, translated from Éléonore Goldberg

Yes, sometimes my apartment feels like a box, a huge coffin in which I’m buried alive. I feel like jumping out the window. It’s true, emptiness is very attractive to me looking down from my windows.

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translationcarte blanche magazineJune 10, 2026Phyllis Aronoff, Éléonore GoldbergComment
The Flamingos' Dance
The Flamingos' Dance

Translation by Jacob Mattke, translated from Yara El-Ghadban

When it came after the workers, nothing was done. They came from detention centers: prisoners, refugees, and undocumented immigrants who tilled the Dead Sea’s salt flats.

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translationcarte blanche magazineJune 10, 2026Jacob Mattke, Yara El-GhadbanComment
Sailors Can't Swim
Sailors Can't Swim

Translation by Jessica Moore, translated from Dominique Scali

Ys is an island. We don’t say “the isles of Ys” or “the Ys Archipelago,” because it is only on the main island – that big hunk of land lost between Saint-Jean-of-Newfoundland and Ouessant – that people can live year-round.

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translationcarte blanche magazineJune 9, 2026Jessica Moore, Dominique ScaliComment
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