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About
allcitiesarebeautiful.com
«What kind of gaze does the city license? What kind of gaze does it induce, determine, inform, program, organise? What is the nature of the city as reality, as image and as symbol? What is this object of desire, at once near and ungraspable, fascinating and repulsive, attractive and intractable, necessary and unbearable, intimate and impenetrable, available and inaccessible, that it is for itself as well as [...] for those who inhabit it and those merely passing through it, for anyone who knows that it is a labyrinth but nonetheless allows himself to remain trapped in it?» — Hubert Damisch, Takashi Homma: The Narcissistic City, 2016
allcitiesarebeautiful.com serves as both a cross disciplinary archive focused on showcasing international artists working in the field of contemporary documentary photography and literature, and as a catalogue for international publishers and publishing houses. Acting as a mediator by combining a theoretical and practical approach to the subject matter of cities, urban culture and day-to-day living in close conjunction with contemporary standards and practices, allcitiesarebeautiful.com unequivocally propagates a holistic and dialectical methodology as its universal leitmotif.
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Founder / Editor
Alexandre Kurek
About
Alexandre lives and works as a freelancing photographer, editor and curator in Berlin and currently studies European Media Science (B.A.) at the University of Potsdam.
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Submissions
Photography
Any photographic work, i.e. photo-essays, collections of single images and/or full series’, etc., must be submitted via Email containing a download link only. Please include a lo-res excerpt of your work alongside a project description and short biography, plus any relevant links and social profiles.
Texts
Writings of all sorts, i.e. essays, poems, short stories, etc., must be submitted via Email only. Please include a few lines about you, as well as any relevant links and social profiles. If you are unsure whether your submission fits in or not, please take some time off to read through some of the already published pieces.
Books
Physical submissions, i.e. books, prints, post cards, zines, etc. are to be send to the address provided in the imprint [click here]. If you are a publisher or publishing house representative and are interested in the inclusion in our Publisher Index, and/or in being featured on Instagram, please get in touch via Email.
On a weekly basis (since 2018), allcitiesarebeautiful.com presents a curated collection of photographs shot by various artists on Instagram. If you want to be considered for an inclusion in the weekly round-up simply share your posts using the hashtag #allcitiesarebeautiful.
Please note
Submitted work will be reviewed within a reasonable time; submitting your work does not guarantee a publication. Due to the high amount of submissions received regularly you will only be contacted if your submission has been selected for publication — thank you.
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Support
Donations
allcitiesarebeautiful.com is and will remain advertisement-free. It is financed exclusively by the editor and the readers. If you appreciate the quality and the effort put into the archive and wish to help make it evolve, then please feel invited to make a donation.
[click here to make a donation] Thank you, for your support! ☺︎
allcitiesarebeautiful © 2022
001
About
allcitiesarebeautiful.com
«What kind of gaze does the city license? What kind of gaze does it induce, determine, inform, program, organise? What is the nature of the city as reality, as image and as symbol? What is this object of desire, at once near and ungraspable, fascinating and repulsive, attractive and intractable, necessary and unbearable, intimate and impenetrable, available and inaccessible, that it is for itself as well as [...] for those who inhabit it and those merely passing through it, for anyone who knows that it is a labyrinth but nonetheless allows himself to remain trapped in it?» — Hubert Damisch, Takashi Homma: The Narcissistic City, 2016
allcitiesarebeautiful.com serves as both a cross disciplinary archive focused on showcasing international artists working in the field of contemporary documentary photography and literature, and as a catalogue for international publishers and publishing houses. Acting as a mediator by combining a theoretical and practical approach to the subject matter of cities, urban culture and day-to-day living in close conjunction with contemporary standards and practices, allcitiesarebeautiful.com unequivocally propagates a holistic and dialectical methodology as its universal leitmotif.
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Founder / Editor
Alexandre Kurek
About
Alexandre lives and works as a freelancing photographer, editor and curator in Berlin and currently studies European Media Science (B.A.) at the University of Potsdam.
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Submissions
Photography
Any photographic work, i.e. photo-essays, collections of single images and/or full series’, etc., must be submitted via Email containing a download link only. Please include a lo-res excerpt of your work alongside a project description and short biography, plus any relevant links and social profiles.
Texts
Writings of all sorts, i.e. essays, poems, short stories, etc., must be submitted via Email only. Please include a few lines about you, as well as any relevant links and social profiles. If you are unsure whether your submission fits in or not, please take some time off to read through some of the already published pieces.
Books
Physical submissions, i.e. books, prints, post cards, zines, etc. are to be send to the address provided in the imprint [click here]. If you are a publisher or publishing house representative and are interested in the inclusion in our Publisher Index, and/or in being featured on Instagram, please get in touch via Email.
On a weekly basis (since 2018), allcitiesarebeautiful.com presents a curated collection of photographs shot by various artists on Instagram. If you want to be considered for an inclusion in the weekly round-up simply share your posts using the hashtag #allcitiesarebeautiful.
Please note
Submitted work will be reviewed within a reasonable time; submitting your work does not guarantee a publication. Due to the high amount of submissions received regularly you will only be contacted if your submission has been selected for publication — thank you.
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Support
Donations
allcitiesarebeautiful.com is and will remain advertisement-free. It is financed exclusively by the editor and the readers. If you appreciate the quality and the effort put into the archive and wish to help make it evolve, then please feel invited to make a donation.
[click here to make a donation] Thank you, for your support! ☺︎
allcitiesarebeautiful © 2022