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138 world-class, established and emerging photographers from 5 continents brought together by Obscura to take the 1st global visual timestamp of the 21st century. 13,800 native 1/1 NFT photographs of cities, landscapes, communities, people, events and conceptual images that will tell our story for centuries to come, taken Mar-Apr 2022.

An ode to the 1955 exhibition The Family of Man by legendary curator Edward Steichen for the MoMA, The World Today uses the blockchain to create a permanent record of our world, rich in metadata connections that further develop and cross-reference the stories within, resulting in a complex net of properties and rarities including 138 curated grails, 1 from each artist.

TWT expanded the frontier of possibilities for photography in the web3 era, and is responsible for onboarding dozens world-class photographers to NFTs.

The World Today

The photo essay Women"s Fire portraits the life of Rosario and Flor who met through juggling. After a while Flor invited Rosario to participate with her art in feminist protests. From these interventions, Rosario rethinks her role of being a woman, mother, wife and artist. These photographs explore different facets in their lives approaching to a reflection about sensuality, objectification, motherhood, relationships, economic independence, solidarity and networks created by women as well as urban artistic expressions. 

Women"s Fire 004 - Rosario speaking loud

Exploration of the cities and the light. Urban postcards of a 3 continent journey in one month.

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() My dictionnary goes on to say that color also signifies authenticity, as in He showed us his true colors. Yet does not the very phrase he showed us his true colors, venerable with age and usage, also suggest the oppostite, that color is both true and untrue precisely beacuse of its claims to authenticity? How can you ever be sure with which variety you are dealing, his true colors or his fals ones? Is this why we in the West are drawn to color, yet made uneasy, even repelled by it, as by Mafia types like me in Hawaiian shirts? Who of you reading this text would even dream of painting the living- room wall bright red or green, or any color other than off-white? Then, safe in your whiteness, you can hang a wildly colored picture on the wall, secure in its framed being.  M. Taussig, What Color is Sacred?, University of Chicago Press (1 mai 2009).

Rose, Salmon, Flamingo, Ballerina, Bubblegum 5

A classic tale of man striving with the harsh realities of his world and thriving regardless of the forces against him

Obscured Land 016 - Rest

Home Truths pays homage to the domesticity of homelife.  It is a personal photographic archive of domestic rhythms, rituals, and family tapestries telling broader cultural stories from regional NSW, Australia.

Putin's Prison presents a series of screen captures taken from unsecured security cameras across Russia between 3-4 April 2022, on the 40th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Many of these images show barriers, fences, corridors, stairwells, entrances, shop interiors, and parks in Russian cities and suburbs. In some, these banal views are punctured by hackers' replacement of standard data with anti-war, anti-Putin, and pro-Ukrainian slogans.

These interventions highlight vulnerabilities in Russia's domestic surveillance apparatus and allude to a larger information war being waged across the media on either side of the conflict. However successful these actions may be, the inclusion of counter-narrative text to the surveillance image is an ingenious attempt to subvert the camera's ability to enforce State control over its citizens.


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Traying to capture people souls thru eye contact while I am having a simple walk in my city: Caracas, Venezuela.

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The photo essay Women's Fire portraits the life of Rosario and Flor who met through juggling. After a while Flor invited Rosario to participate with her art in feminist protests. From these interventions, Rosario rethinks her role of being a woman, mother, wife and artist. These photographs explore different facets in their lives approaching to a reflection about sensuality, objectification, motherhood, relationships, economic independence, solidarity and networks created by women as well as urban artistic expressions. 

Women's Fire 003 - Fire from heaven

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Were alive to not rest, but to strive.
Were waves, yet if still, we wont survive
-Saeb-e-Tabrizi, 16th-17th-century Persian poet

There exist turbulent waves between me and the island of Hengam, each referring to a brief moment. Every time they are born, I seem to witness their disappearance. In the same way as a moment, every time I approach one, I am simultaneously moving away from it. The essence of the island and its seclusion, nonetheless, gives space to my solitude as well as its new guests to experience a touch of relief in those transient split seconds.
Hengam (meaning moment in English, Persian: ) is an island that covers an area of approximately 50 square kilometers in the south of Iran and the Persian Gulf. The island hosts nature tourists, often young people who want to escape or seek self-confrontation; they camp together for a few days or weeks in every nook and cranny of nature, away from all the social constraints back in cities. For them, Hengam, with its warm sunshine and temperate climate, is like a safe haven and shelter in which to experience a communal life, regardless of the common and traditional patterns of contemporary Iranian lifestyle. They seem to have become integrated and enclosed with hope and expectation in Iranian society's social and cultural context, which is fragmented like an island, observing all the comings and goings between the past, present, and the future. 

In the meanwhile, the natives of Hengam Island have moved from Minab, a city in southern Iran in the same province, to settle there, and throughout the past few decades, they have replaced the former Arab inhabitants of the island. The latter lived there for centuries but were expelled due to political changes in different historical periods and migrated to the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

In this ongoing project, a variety of cameras and photographic film formats, often outdated, have been used.

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Since the development of first tools, and especially after the abandon of the nomadic life, the humankind has been creating several forms of constructs in order to overpass the natural limitations of their lives. Passed thousands of years, with the exponential development of the societies, these creations became part of the daily life as well the local landscapes, perpetuating a continuous cycle of creation and abandon on the same intensity as the economics systems develop. Desconstructo is a visual research on the physical vestiges of abandoned objects and buildings found in So Paulo, the biggest south-American metropolis, where thousands of constructions are abandoned or transformed every days, becoming this way part of the local landscape.  

Desconstructo - An abandoned mansion 02

These images from the series A World Apart work to explore the digital spaces that we have begun to incorporate into our lives as real spaces, using the Wet Plate Collodion PRocess to capture and recontextualize them. 

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JUSTICE. Coloniality of Power. Transatlantic Slavery. Debt cancellation. Double consciousness. Afro-Argentinity. Self-affirmation. Struggle. Transcendence. Identity. Centrality. Imaginaries. Inequality. Recognition. Compensations. Presence. History. Postulates. Ethics. Networks. Community. Decolonization. Diasporic condition.  Afro-reparations. Resistance. Diaspora. Violence. Relations. Patterns. Domination. Inequality. Conquest. ID. Categories. Identity. Hierarchy. Categories. Structures. Organization. System. America. Africa. Liberty. Schedule. Continuity.Diafar

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138 photographers from around the world taking a visual time stamp of the 21st century. Cities, towns, farms, landscapes, communities, people and events that will tell the story of our world for centuries to come. The World Today uses the technology of NFTs to create a permanent record through the blockchain of our world. 
With this great project we envision a new photography scene that will be marked by this giant community effort to benefit hundreds of established and emerging artists from around the world.

A Day in a Life 021 - TEST LIGHT

A new wave of immigrants coming from central America, Hondurans and Haitians, forging their way to the great America. This images are taken in Monterrey, Mxico a place where they have stablished or are in transit, many have been deported and others are traveling for the first time.  This moments represent when migrants complete or are in the limbo of their journey in a train known as The Beast. The name of this free way of transportation, it  refers to the terrifying experience of traveling in the roof of the train, for some 2,500 kilo-meters, being exposed to all sorts of accidents and atrocities including deaths and limb loosing incidents. Many have lost members of the group they had formed to magnify their chances of survival. 

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Fire dancing at the Rhythm and Blood show at oworoshoki

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Civilians work in re-opening of the shelters in a park in Lviv center built during the second world war.

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We are at an inflection point. I know the Metaverse is coming, I feel it, but I cant see it yet. 

The TWT10K project has given me a chance to explore this new dimension. This collection is an expression of my attempt to migrate my Web2 practice into Web3, and try to understand how photography can play a critical part in taking what is best from one reality and seeding it into another.

Flora of Argleton Lane is a collection of images of nature that I have captured in Google Street View over many years of virtual travel (instagram.com/streetview.portraits), that I have now reimagined for the metaverse using AI. The focus on nature was inspired by my sense that the Metaverse is something that is emerging organically, it reminds me of a Brian Eno quote where he says,  "composers are becoming more like gardeners than architects".  Flora of Argleton Lane is an experiment in fusing the mindset of a gardener with the sensibilities of a  photographer.

Argleton Lane is the name of the corner of the metaverse I discovered during lockdown (opensea.io/collection/homes-of-argleton-lane). Not for the first time, my anxiety disorder manifested itself as a desire to virtually escape to new places, this time by collaborating with an AI trained on my Street View images. The process has revealed a metaverse ready, alternate reality, that looks a bit like here, but isn"t.

The AI does not simply transform a photograph, it uses a photograph and written words as the seeds to grow an entirely new image. It has been exciting to explore how to creatively collaborate with an AI to craft the emotional effect of my output. I have spent most of my time exploring how to amplify the nature of what I loved about the accidental essence of the moments I discovered in Street View, and how those moments resonated with my feelings of awe, harmony and isolation.

I have set the metadata for this image to its seed location in the real world, its fruit is very much located on "Argleton Lane".




