In Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland (2022), photography is not merely a narrative tool: it lies at the heart of the film, connecting Danish priest Lucas to an unforgiving Icelandic landscape. Shot on 35mm, this third collaboration between the Icelandic director and Swedish cinematographer Maria von Hausswolff is a visual masterpiece, with its static portraits and vast […]
Author: Stan Lamontagne
The poetic Soul of an Island in ‘Les Rochers Fauves’ by Clément Chapillon
Clément Chapillon is a French photographer who lives between the south and Paris. After returning to the Gobelins school, he initiated his series Promise me a Land on the link to the land between Israelis and Palestinians which earned him several awards. From this experience, he rebounds with a more personal project on the Mediterranean […]
From Moving Shots to Stills in ‘Ida’
I’ve been thinking about this one for a while, you might believe that is a photo series here, but those shots are indeed stills from the movie Ida! Director Pawel Pawlikowski gives us a portrait of post-war Poland through the story of Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), a young Polish girl who lives in a convent. An […]
Lewis Brillet Questions the Notion of Home in ‘Homebound’
Lewis Brillet is a 27 year-old freelance photographer from Lymington, a town in the South West of England, currently based in Paris. Also working as a part-time chef, his project Homebound explores the notion of home, what it represents to him and to his family. Can you give us some background information about how you […]
Through the Oregon Landscapes with Lucas DeShazer
Lucas DeShazer is a photographer born and still living in Portland, Oregon, USA. As he makes a living by developing softwares, he mainly shoots on large format focusing on the landscapes of his region. In his series Waves of Change, he reflects on the changing place of Oregon, but also in his life. Can you […]
On Alzheimer’s Disease with ‘Berta’ by Karla Guerrero
Karla Guerrero is a Mexican photographer from Mexico City, where she lives. Within her artistic practice, she writes articles in a platform named Espacio Gaf dedicated to the investigation and promotion of Latin America Contemporary Photography. Her series Berta deals with her grandmother with Alzheimer’s. First of all, how did you start photography? I started while […]
The Invisible Work of Gardeners by Amanda Harman in ‘Garden Stories’
Amanda Harman is a photographer born in Sussex, UK, now based in the south west of England. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Photography at UWE Bristol and continues to work on personal projects. She has used her photographic skills to work on a range of commissions, residencies and projects for galleries, museums, and commercial […]
A Dive into the Enigmatic Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
Released in 1979, Stalker is at the end of the career of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a poetic and atypical story of a guide, a stalker, taking an artist and a scientist, to a forbidden area called the “Zone” to find the “Room”, which is said to grant the wishes of anyone who enters. […]