Marisol Mendez is a Bolivian photographer that uses her camera to study the tension between truth and fiction, the tight relationship between what a photograph creates and the (sur)real it comes from. Unconcerned with image hierarchies, she combines lo-fi procedures with sophisticated photographic techniques to explore the dynamics between immediacy and intimacy, memory and identity. […]
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‘Thank you Mum’ by Charlotte Mano
Charlotte Mano is a photographer and videographer based in Paris. Shaken by her mother’s illness, Mano has initiated a photographic series staging their daily life into micro-fictions. A response to transform these moments together and celebrate their complicity when the mother becomes little by little the operator of the stagings imagined by the photographer. The two […]
‘Diagnosed with Phantom Pain’ by Julia Albrecht
Julia Albrecht is a German born fine art photographer whose work is based on a linking examination of sociological and gender-scientific research as well as an intensive preoccupation with personal experiences. It constantly draws from a profound curiosity for humanitarian issues and cultural phenomenons. Could you speak first about your early life to set the […]
‘Zenker’ by Jonas Feige & Yana Wernicke
Jonas Feige and Yana Wernicke are Berlin-based photographers. Since 2016 they have been working on the project Zenker, about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker. The photobook of the project has just been published by Edition Patrick Frey and it’s the perfect opportunity to have this conversation. How did you […]
‘För’ by Agnieszka Sosnowska
Agnieszka Sosnowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. The word ‘För’, which stands for the title of her recent series, is an Icelandic feminine noun that means journey, the act of traveling from one place to another, to be moving or moved. It also refers to the route along which something travels […]
Kinderszenen by Lionel Jusseret
Lionel Jusseret is a Belgian documentary photographer. After finishing his studies at INSAS in 2012, he started photographing children with autism in the French association J’interviendrais. In search of unpredictable images, Jusseret aims at the intimacy of the subject, with an anthropological approach . His long term Kinderszenen recently published by Loco editions. How did you decide […]
‘Vorest’ by Phillipa Klaiber
Phillipa Klaiber is a long-form documentary photographer. The central themes of her practice are the anthropology of landscape, memory, and the materiality and topography of land. Perhaps you can speak first about your early life to set the scene. Where did you grow up and how did that environment shape you?I grew up on the […]
‘Je ne Regrette Rien’ by Maria Munzi
Maria Munzi is a photographer based in Barcelona.Je ne regrette rien (2018- ), her recent in-progress series documents the surreal scenes that appear daily, allowing mystery, irony and tension to obtain the depth they deserve. To get started, it would be nice to know a bit about you and your background. What attracted you to […]