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Elf Dalia series by Maja Daniels
This series is inspired by her family’s roots in Älvdalen. Her own photographs are mixed with older pictures of the area by others. Daniels thus links the past to the present and weaves a narrative that is at the intersection of documentation and fiction. You can see more on her book here. Landskrona Foto festival runs until 20 September
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Refashioned Everyday Objects by Sackitey Tesa
Tesa is a photographer and stylist from Ghana. In his photos he combines elements of clothing, art, portraits and landscapes, and the models in his pictures are mainly neighbours, family and friends. Clothes and props are made by the photographer from various things that he can find – he believes recycled object possess a special force
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The Plastic series by Jessica Pettway
For many years, Pettway has documented the use of plastics in modern society. The packages in the pictures were bought from grocery stores in Landskrona and photographed in Pettway’s studio in New York. Plastic is a controversial material. On the one hand it is cheap, hygienic and sterile. On the other, it has significant negative consequences for the environment. The sterility of plastic alienates the consumer from the origin of food. Does this demand for artificiality come from the consumer or from industry? See more from the series here
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Wildlife or Commodity? series by Britta Jaschinski
Jaschinski puts animal trafficking in the spotlight. Her photojournalistic style envisions the human exploitation of wildlife. Among her work we see elephant feet that will become footstools and animal heads to put on walls. The demand for products made of animal parts leads to the fact that many species are threatened with extinction
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The Migrant series by Anaïs López
In a hotel room in Singapore, a Javan myna, a bird in the starling family, came to López to tell her its life story. López listened to the bird’s tale and created the work The Migrant. The Javan myna is an endangered species, threatened by humans. The Migrant is a study in storytelling
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Mt Shuksan, 48° 51’ 56.556”, -121° 40’ 40.65 by Peter Funch
During the festival, works on Project Pressure will be shown by five photographers: Edward Burtynsky, Peter Funch, Noémie Goudal, Simon Norfolk and Klaus Thymann. You can see more of Funch’s work here
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Glaciér 2 by Noémie Goudal
Project Pressure’s mission since it started in 2008 is to make the climate crisis visible. Established photographers are assigned to carry out expeditions in different places around the world. They have been tasked with interpreting the theme of ‘meltdown’. The work has been done together with climate scientists and established institutions such as the World Glacier Monitoring Service and Nasa. You can read more about it here
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Which Way? by Patrick Waterhouse
The Restricted Images series is a collaboration between Waterhouse and the Warlukurlangu Art Centre. The works were made in remote desert aboriginal communities in central Australia. For the Warlpiri, the history of photography is dark, as photographers sometimes worked on behalf of the colonists. Waterhouse took photos of his own and collected archival material about Australia’s colonial history. He gave this material to a Warlpiri artist community. They revised the pictures with dot painting, a traditional Aboriginal art technique
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The Quest for Identity series by Ziyah Gafic
Quest for Identity is a forensic depiction of objects, documents and photographs found in the mass graves after the Srebrenica massacre. In 2010, Gafic began to systematically document the thousands of things that had been dug up. Homes had been destroyed, bodies had decomposed and the survivors had been scattered over the world. The photographs make up an archive that says something about those who were murdered. About their dreams and ambitions. The work is still in progress
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#5 Self Portrait as My Father by Silvia Rosi
The Encounter series is on show at Konsthallen. Silvia Rosi was born in Italy in 1992. Her parents migrated from Togo to Italy a couple of years before Rosi was born, but soon they went their separate ways. From a place in the diaspora, she examines her parents’ history and culture. The photographs include self-portraits in which the photographer plays her mother and father, with an aesthetic that is commonly found in west African photo studios. Is it possible to create a family album in retrospect, to bring together what has been broken up?
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The Human Territoriality series by Roger Eberhard
The picture series Human Territoriality is about borders drawn and dissolved. What is important in the pictures is invisible. Eberhard has ‘portrayed’ vanished borders. Some were dissolved naturally, others disappeared when power changed hands. The series of pictures emphasises the arbitrary character of borders, how they both protect and damage
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The Blue Skies Project by Anton Kusters
Kusters was born in Belgium in 1974. The Blue Skies Project consists of 1,078 polaroid images, taken of the sky above the 1,078 second world war concentration camps. Stamped on each image are the coordinates of the place and the estimated number of victims in each camp. The work includes a piece of long-form sound art by Ruben Samama. There is a note for every victim. You can read more about the project here
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Remnants #19 by Sim Chi Yin
In the multimedia project One Day We’ll Understand, Sim Chi Yin exposes hidden traces of the Malayan emergency, a conflict between the British colonial power and the Malaysian left. Sim Chi Yin’s grandfather was a communist who was executed in 1949. In some circles, her grandfather is a freedom fighter, in others a terrorist. In his own family, he became an unmentionable person
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The Unexposed series by Hrair Sarkissian
The Unexposed series of pictures is about the descendants of the Armenians who converted to Islam to escape the genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Today, after rediscovering their roots and converting back to Christianity, these descendants are forced to conceal their newfound Armenian identity. They are not accepted by the Turkish nor the Armenian community and therefore remain invisible. Sarkissian’s photographs play with what is visible and invisible and how we ourselves as observers fill in what is missing
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Four Fish to Sell by Lesia Maruschak
Project Maria is based on a photograph of Maria F, a girl who survived the Holodomor famine (1932-33) in the Soviet Ukraine. Four million people starved to death during Joseph Stalin’s terror. Maruschak is of Ukrainian descent and heard people retelling their memories of the Holodomor during her childhood. These memories never left her. In the exhibition, Maruschak chisels out Maria’s fate and portrays the relationship between the past and our time
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Donde Habita el Recuerdo (Where Memory Lives) by Clemente Bernad
On 17 July 1936, the Spanish civil war began with Franco’s attempted coup. In the subsequent years, hundreds of thousands of people disappeared. Donde Habita el Recuerdo (Where Memory Lives) is Bernad’s documentation, which he began in 2003, of the forensic work of charting the atrocities of the era. The photographs are a tribute to those whose demand for justice has preserved the memory of those who disappeared
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