I shot this photo one summer morning of the ’90s, just a few minutes after Eros had been freed from scaffoldings.
Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics that take the everyday and ordinary and frame it in a different way. He lives in Bologna, Italy and his work can be viewed online.
This photo was captured sometime during the covid-19 pandemic on the eastern coast of Singapore. The shot is a reminder of rising sea levels, disappearing coastlines and of a bleak future should we turn a blind eye on our ecosystems and natural environment.
Elancharan Gunasekaran is inspired by Dadaist movements, butoh and anarchism. He believes that humans are capable of governing themselves without the need of political systems. His art often involves experimenting with visual and literary forms on the raw aspects of the human condition, climate change and man-made / natural phenomena.
This photo was taken in my hometown and to me, it evokes this feeling of being slowly swallowed by something you can’t change, something that stays the same or keeps getting bigger and bigger until you’re swallowed whole by it and left with nothing. It has that in common with empty spaces where nothing will change in either space unless deliberate actions are taken to change the space; or, as one of my therapists has put it, nothing changes if nothing changes.
Shawn Ferrari (she/they) writes different third-person bios each time that she submits her work to publications, but they’re unsure if anyone has caught on to that. What people have probably seen though is her work in Wrongdoing Magazine, HOLYFLEA!, Queerlings and her twitter (@cursed_car).
During our trip to North Bengal sometime in March a few years back with family and friends, we got down at this station, New Mal Junction. It was not even dawn; the sky was just getting fairer. We waited for the darkness to disappear, and found a thick pall of fog wrapping the air around us. As all the members moved out of the station, I felt a divine tranquillity of the place, and captured the moment to be preserved for posterity.
Passion for travelling imbued with an ardent love for photography inspires me as much as my craving for creative writing. The elements encrypted in Empty Space find a graphic expression in ‘The Bliss of Morning Solitude’. The concept of emptiness of a space can be heightened by the subliminal presence of other objects. In this photograph, the glimpse of a denuded tree in the backdrop of foggy canvas truly brings out the essence of the Empty Space theme.
Sambhu Nath Banerjee (Ph.D.) from Kolkata, India is passionate about photography and writing on cinemas and social issues. His works appear in Cafe Dissensus, Muse India, Borderless and 3Elements.
I think what makes this image is the remnant of the old popular fashion emporium – What Every Woman Wants. What a statement to leave in an empty building. I snapped the pic from a moving bus, realising that they were about to demolish the block. Memories of Glasgow, a derelict tenement on Argyle St which has been replaced. That sang, Space, to me. It was manipulated slightly on PicsArt. Most cities/towns will be different for our grandchildren, not the same environment we grew up in. In my late teens I bought a new dress every weekend from there for a pound, and danced the evening away up in the Sauchiehall St night-clubs.
Irene Cunningham has had many poems in many magazines and anthologies over the decades. In 2019, Hedgehog Press published, SANDMEN: A Space Odyssey, a poetry conversation with Diana Devlin. In 2022, Dreich Press published her first solo chapbook, No Country for Old Woman. She moved to Brighton last year.
This photo was taken on a walk after a concert in Brooklyn New York a few months ago. When I was thinking about which photographs would fit with the theme of Empty Space, I picked this one because I believe it captures the feeling of the empty NYC streets that are usually filled with cars and people. Instead the streets are occupied by the rain and the occasional pedestrian.
bedfordtowers is a film photographer based in Scranton Pennsylvania. He has worked with musicians in New York City and Los Angeles and has been published in over a dozen magazines and zines.
When I arrived in Glasgow, I started the trip by visiting Necropolis and ended the day in The Lighthouse. I was awed by the city gloom, the architecture of the city of the dead, and the lifeless ambiance. To some extent, The Lighthouse was empty but charming. I could feel the dullness of the void. Yet, I could also embrace the beauty of the spiral staircase. Most importantly, the silence reminded me of mortality.
These elements really fill the hollow of the Lighthouse from top to bottom or vice versa, depending on your perspective.
Ignatius Primadi is a mundane and reflective writer who enjoys visual poetry and has written personal poems since 2008. Fond of romanticism, his imagination is influenced by music, photography and science.
Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English and in Greek. His poems have appeared at the Sand Journal, The Shanghai Literary Review, streetcake magazine, Tint Journal, the Away With Words Anthology (Vol 4) and elsewhere. He was also a runner-up at the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2021.
Lila Kahn is a photographer, illustrator, and designer from Oakland, California. She has always been fascinated by the expressiveness of landscapes, both natural and human-made, and aims to explore that quality through her art. When she is not creating, you can find her cooking, thinking about the cosmos, or trying to befriend a neighborhood cat.
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