Marco Kesseler records social and political chaos and calm

Date
21 January 2015

We featured Marco Kesseler’s This Land Of Ours That Is Not Ours series last summer. The project forms a portrait of the street clashes in Kiev between government forces and the pro-European movement, documenting the tensions that led up to the riots, seemingly mundane domestic details and the broader architectural setting of the uprising.

Marco’s documentary photography focusses on in-depth studies of social and political issues, with a particular focus on the Balkans and the Middle East. His diaristic work has drawn light to the history and practice of blood-feuds in Albania, and recorded the activity of suppressed protesters in Belarus, working under the watch of autocrat Alexander Lukashenko. Marco’s photographs are quiet, vigorous interventions. Affecting in their sense of ease amongst socio-political chaos, they provide a record of oft-neglected people and contexts.

Marco has sent over some previously unpublished outtakes from his three most recent projects. With photographs from Albania, Belarus and Ukraine they cover both geographic and thematic ground, with a perhaps unexpected and bright sense of humour.

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Marco Kesseler: Out-take

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Marco Kesseler: Out-take

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Marco Kesseler: Out-take

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Marco Kesseler: Out-take

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Marco Kesseler: Out-take

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Marco Kesseler: Out-take

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Marco Kesseler: Out-take

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Billie Muraben

Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.

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