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The Seeeu Europe photo month is under way – in Tokyo! It features shots by European image-makers displayed in public, from cafes to construction sites across the capital
Generated by AI … Maria Mavropoulo, Imagined Images, 2023.Wed 29 Oct 2025 08.00 CETLast modified on Wed 29 Oct 2025 08.07 CET
Time Capsule by Laure Winants, 2023
The Time Capsule series was created in Svalbard, Norway, during a four-month Arctic expedition. It probes the limits of human perception and shows that the Earth’s rhythms unfold on scales beyond our everyday understanding. Seeeu is exhibiting in venues across Tokyo until 23 November
Sunshine, How Are You? by Varvara Uhlik, 2023-2024
Born in eastern Ukraine five years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Uhlik remembers moments of childhood joy amid the echoes of Soviet values. Her aim is to reclaim Ukrainian identity from the shadow of Russian colonialism
Reverting, Oasis by Francisco Gonzalez Camacho, 2024
Camacho’s Reverting series reflects on the commodification of nature in Iceland, examining issues such as gentrification, waste and environmental degradation
Familiar Characters, Bunnies by Igor Schiller, 2020-2023
Schiller’s work draws on his Balkan upbringing. In the Familiar Characters series, he follows an adult’s return to the forgotten corners of childhood, blending memory and dream in an attempt to bring back its lost magicPhotograph: Igor Schiller
Water Column, S12 by Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, 2022
The Water Column series explores the unseen worlds beneath the ocean’s surface. Developed with marine scientists, the series creates striking, thought-provoking visions of coral reefs and deep-sea ecosystems
Imagined Images by Maria Mavropoulo, 2023
Through a family photo album generated with AI, of which this is one image, Mavropoulo visualises lost memories, family histories and moments that might have been. ‘I took all the stories of my great grandparents, grandparents and parents,’ she says, ‘and used them as prompts in an image-generating AI to rewrite my own history. Unexpectedly, it was not only emotional but also informative. The AI seemed to know more than I did, adding details I wasn’t aware of’
Budapest A-Z, Bubble by Anna Tihanyi, 2022
Tihanyi’s series reimagines Budapest through childhood recollections and symbolic imagery, to reflect a drastically changing Europe. Inspired by a Hungarian children’s encyclopedia, she blends personal and collective memory to build a visual alphabet of Budapest
Comfort Zone by Tadao Cern, 2013
Shot from above on European beaches without the subjects’ awareness, the series Comfort Zone reveals how people retreat into personal rituals even in public spaces, suggesting privacy is self-generated and illusory in an age of surveillance, image saturation and digital voyeurism
Copyright Swap #2 by Tamara Janes, 2023
This manipulated image, based on an original by Joel Meyerowitz, shows how Janes explores copyright in photography and art: she digitally alters scans made at the New York public library’s picture collection, investigating the boundaries of authorship – and asking at what point another’s image becomes her own. Working with a copyright lawyer, each modification was assessed through a traffic-light system that evaluated what changes were needed to reach the ‘green’ zone
Metamorphosis by Claudia Fuggetti, 2024
This series captures moments that seem caught between the real and the artificial, inviting viewers to see nature as an active presence rather than a background, all while reflecting on beauty, fragility and loss
The Horses Are Coming by Christina Werner, 2024
Addressing nationalism, identity politics and representation, Werner’s series looks at how the Nazis used animals symbolically. Eagles, lions, horses and sheepdogs were deployed in the Third Reich as emblems of strength, purity and order – codes that, Werner argues, continue to resonate
Kyiv, Ukraine by Marylise Vigneau, 2025
Marylise Vigneau explores the full-scale invasion of Ukraine through personal stories. In this image, the sun shone and the city breathed in the gentleness of spring. Families filled the parks and, for a moment, the war felt distant. But by late afternoon, a Russian missile had struck Kryvyi Rih, 400km away, killing 14 people including six childrenExplore more on these topics
