Sugar Tales

My photography depicts the ever-changing landscape of the world around me.

I look for opportunities to introduce a new context to my surroundings. And through this exploration, I aim to incite the subtle tension between nature and culture, innocence and cynicism and the beautiful and the grotesque.

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Chemotherapy

My work embraces aspects of family dynamics, illness and healing, the beauty of aging and the joy of unrehearsed ritual.

These photographs are self-portraits from the time I lived through breast cancer.

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Annunciation

Ekaterina Bubnova is an artist, art-historian, and novelist. She works in painting, design, photography. She is from the third generation of artists having residence in Moscow. Sculptors, painters and designers surrounded her from childhood, and it was very natural for her ...

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Nightwalks 2007

At night, away from the crowds and the rush that dominates everyday life, the way of relating to a city changes substantially. Wandering through silent and empty streets one enters a distinct kind of time, ....>>> continue

Lost and Found

My images are self-portraits.  I’m in all of them. Each illustrates a part of me that I would prefer to keep hidden. This body of work is the closest I’ve come to communicating my truth. I have always envied writers their ability to thread words together in a simple and eloquent way.  .... >>> continue

Gulliver in Europe

The series Gulliver in Europe consist of photographs which function as landscape, or stages, on which certain “adventures” take place, creating an underlying narrative, but above all they are about combining two realities .... >>> continue

Passengers

The images from the series “Passengers” have been realized at the time I was living in Berlin from 2005 to 2007.

The back and forth in-between the different medias used in the project is build like an echo of a collective memory, stripped off some commemorative places or museums, in order to get lost within figures and places of the past."Passengers" get to the core this business, since one can’t separate marble and flesh, .... >>> continue

Matter Unmasked

In these photographic collages everyday, familiar images are transformed into compositions that hint at invisible, underlying structures.

Individual photographs have been fractured and reassembled to symbolize the building blocks of matter. Integrating these photographic shards .... >>> continue

Photomicrographs

My images from the microcosm are taken by a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Instead of visible light the SEM uses an electron beam, thus breaking entirely new ground in perception and means of reproduction. It is the tremendous depth of focus of the SEM, in particular, that enables us to perceive the micro-world as an exact, detailed, realistic, three-dimensional image. .... >>> continue

The Expectations of Adolescence

Adolescence is a time for identity play, a time to try on various masks in the journey toward self-discovery and adulthood.  Through our imaginations we perceive endless possibilities, but slowly awaken to the realities of resistance.   For some, racial and gender barriers may become more evident, and dreams begin to give way to doubts.
Adolescence is often a period of insecurity and.... >>> continue

Talking from both sides of the mouth, February 2008

The project „Talking from both sides of the mouth“ explores the notion of communication in various forms ranging from an inability to directly connect with someone, to misunderstandings, right down to attempting to connect with others although not having anyone recognize that a connection .... >>> read more

LANDSCAPE 06

Jolana Havelkova is interested in the landscape as building blocks, landscape as an abstract painting, as a configuration of the relatively limited number of pixels available in the camera of mobile phone. And she is interested in precisely the seductive doubt which distinguishes the human brain from machines and nostalgia from ... >>> read more

Antarctic

Antarctic exploration, and mountaineering in general, is often represented in a discourse of conquest, the heroism of man against nature. This requires that the idea of ‘self’ be constructed in opposition to the environment. Similarly, the tourist gaze objectifies and alienates place as a distanced ‘other’, a mere picture to view, without interacting with it or engaging their other senses. Scientific investigation meanwhile, maintains a necessarily rational and dispassionate regard. The Antarctic has never been home to an indigenous population; no peoples .... >>> read more

The past is always present. You can see the marks that time left in every object, every face. The hybrid photographs of the series Apparitions are confronting past and present in an unnatural way: superposing pictures of the family-album, ....

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Baianas de Acarajé

.... Her ongoing photo-documentary, Baianas de Acarajé, continues to grow with new historical research and intimate images including street photos about this popular religion parties. .... >>> read more

.... Enchanted and deeply impressed by the play and by the actors, I called the group and asked them if I could attend the assay of them in the next Saturday, in the theater of the Psychiatric Hospital Jurujuba, of Niterói..... >>> read more 

Orte werden Bilder

Bei der Serie "Orte werden Bilder" geht es um das künstlerische Erforschen eines ehemaligen Erzabbaugebietes in Hessen, der so genannten „Weickartshainer Schweiz“. Dabei wurden die in unterschiedlichen Medien verankerten und dokumentierten räumlich-zeitlichen, soziokulturellen, gesellschaftspolitischen, architektonischen und nicht zuletzt ästhetischen Dimensionen des Ortes ....

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Food Pictures

.... As I child I often ate chicken soup and have always loved this soothing liquid even though I think of it also as the essence of the chicken’s body. My father frequently made chicken soup and I remember at one point he began putting several pairs of chicken feet into the pot along with the chicken. ....

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Between the waters, Vietnam 2006

The project shows a face of  Vietnam which is stamped by the late results of the Vietnam war. The past determines the future. This reflects the land Vietnam with all his facets. There is no concluded past. There is only a multi-layer present which is composed by the yesterday, today and .... >>> read more

Photography as a medium interests me because of its promise to show reality.
I have no documentary intention but use the photographic image to combine fragments from separate realities .... >>> read more

Photography to me  is a language that enables me to communicate what I see.
Being able to see is something that keeps on astonishing me..... >>> read more

..... How this family picture survived World War II to be returned to their mother’s hands—considering her flight from Nazi occupied Poland and subsequent Soviet imprisonment—is a mystery.  “It was only after my mother and grandmother had both passed away,” Mania’s daughter said, “that .... >>> read more

The absence of all colors

.... In the cut intent, the intimate contact with the person’s image, always a relative, makes me get in touch with details of these people, that sometimes I knew, and sometimes not. That creates a connection – a knowledge – with me and the person, transforming the process in a experience extremely intense and emotional. ...... >>> read more

Dark Dream: Picturing Cambodia

During the Vietnam War, the United States military began a relentless campaign of carpet-bombing over Cambodia, ...... In 1979 Cambodians were told that it was the "Year Zero", a new beginning with no past and no future. It was the beginning of the Killing Fields. ....

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Cell phone photography

Hands (Marc Riboud), is from an ongoing project of cell phone photography, which is all about pictures that I cannot make with larger cameras; there is something inherent in the limitations....

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Menhirs

In 2003 I pitched my tent next to the ancient Ring of Brodgar in Scotland and photographed from evening through the night until dawn. That was the beginning .... >>>