ANALOGICA FESTIVAL 2014 /// PHOTO SELECTION exhibition
ORA / AUER (BZ) 26, 27, 28 sept 2014
ANIMA ANIMUS by Claudia Moroni ( UK )
Anima Animus is a long term project exploring the borderline of gender.
The first part of this project is a series of black and white portraits of trans* people living in the UK.
Each model has undertaken a journey, transitioning from the sex they were assigned at birth to the gender they identify with.All portraits have been shot on film with a large format camera, taking advantage of the Scheimpflug principle to narrowly focus on the models' eyes.
This stylistic choice is a visual response to the media's tendencies to only focus on trans* people bodies, virtually erasing their identities."
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LOST IN ELEMENTS by Benedetta Falugi (IT)
In this series, natural elements are not set as scenic backgrounds, but rather as protagonists. Places chosen for this series are not characterized by someone's presence - on the contrary, it is the surroundings that characterize people, giving the whole series a greater of meaning and a sense of unity. Subjects are photographed from the back or form the distance not for the purpose of blurring out human individuality, but to extend it beyond limits, so that any viewer can identify himself or herself in the subjects.
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MIRAGE by Yolenth van den Hoogen (NL)
The serie ‘Mirage’ captures the senses of light in different perspectives. The echoes of past, present and future are connected through palpable mirages. The light becomes an entity that is possible to touch...