Featured Submissions from the PhMuseum 2026 Photography Grant
Explore a sneak peek of projects we received through the 14th edition of our open call aimed at supporting emerging artists.
Images:
1-2. A Face In The Crowd by @minamiivory
3. Residual Noise by @josephsradford
4. Dark Matter by @zendrson
5-6. A Line In The Sand by @michael_valiquette
7. City Of Seven Hills by @brynnequinlan
Submit your work for the chance to win €10,000 in cash prizes, solo shows, screenings, portfolio reviews, and features both online and in print, benefiting from a reduced entry fee until 29 January.
Learn more and apply now via phmuseum.com/g26 (link in bio)
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Honored to be included in @booooooom ‘s “Fav Photos Found in 2025: 50 Photos by 50 Photographers” with 49 other incredible photographers. Thank you, @booooooom !
The Trump Administration says it will no longer commemorate World AIDS Day, which is observed around the world on December 1. About a mile off of the coast of the Bronx in New York City is a narrow, one-mile-long piece of land called Hart Island. This small piece of land holds a lot of history; mass burials on the island began in 1872. It is home to the largest public cemetery in the United States, where over one million people are buried in trenches dug by prisoners from the Rikers Island jail. The island became a place to bury unclaimed bodies, especially at the height of the AIDs crisis in the 1980s. Since then, over 75,000 people have been buried on Hart Island. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of the unclaimed bodies were from low-income neighborhoods and overwhelmingly Black, Latino, and front-line workers who do not have access to healthcare. Despite its proximity to New York City and its designation as “public”, it has never been easy to access.
Hart Island is a microcosm of the issues plaguing American society—police brutality, prison reform, healthcare access, LGBTQ+ discrimination—all concentrated in this remote, isolating, confusing, controlling, secret, heavily surveilled, and exclusionary place. It raises profound questions about the value society places on certain lives and serves as a stark representation of the neglect endured by those who do not meet specific criteria. In its obscurity, Hart Island serves as a haunting reminder of the complexities and inequalities that define America, hidden away in plain sight on a mile-long island, where countless stories lay beneath its soil.
Some more images of my handmade photobook of “A Line in the Sand” which was included in “Coining Utopias”, part of TTT2025 Ljubljana at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture. Honored to have my work in this exhibition!
