Anastasia Samoylova. Harbor

Her personal photographic research explores and captures the spirit of seven European port cities: Genoa, Venice, Rotterdam, Marseille, Lisbon, Athens and Istanbul. Time and space are essential elements both in the construction of the photographic image and in the processes of transformation and development of port cities. Ports are places of temporal and spatial transition, marked by unstoppable commercial expansion, the danger of climate instability, the difficulties of migratory exchange and the boundlessness of visual saturation. Within the tradition of documentary photography, the artist develops a visual language capable of combining conceptual rigour with poetic sensitivity. Her images resist immediate and superficial viewing, inviting a slow and in-depth observation, in which the gaze builds up in layers and the