Monthly Archive for February, 2019

M.H. Frøslev – Unsettled City

M.H. Frøslev

Unsettled City

 

Unsettled City is a journey of a human in a metropolis. It portrays despair and love in a place where life at times can be very uncertain.

 

The book is a personal depiction of a claustrophobic environment with the cityscape as framework, captured in the cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow over the last ten years. Through ninety-five photographs in contrast monochromes and dusty colours the book unfolds the night as a motif. Here we meet bulldogs, street fights and abandoned roads alongside loving glances, intimate moments and faded buildings, all quietly standing still, waiting for the night to die down and the light to rise again. Through disquieting atmospheres and raw sensitivity Unsettled City shows us how the people of the night alternately love and fear both the city and each other. With this book M.H. Frøslev portrays feelings of alienation, inequality and pain on a par with love, intimacy and fascination.

 

 

“As a narrator, I am looking for a place I can relate to and that moves me. These photographs are based on my own life and relations. The book is my encounter with the metropolis, but it is also a rediscovery of myself, and an examination of the feelings and relations that are associated with being connected to another person, a time and a place. I photograph my longing, my presence, my love and my fears. I photograph because it helps me understand my feelings. For me Unsettled City is about people finding love in the dark streets of a metropolis, where the night will either save or destroy you.” – M.H. Frøslev

 

 

 

Short Bio

Born 1988 in Copenhagen, Denmark. M.H. Frøslev worked in 2008 as photographic assistant for Danish Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol in Copenhagen but moved initially in 2010 to Moscow and later to Saint Petersburg where he started the project Unsettled City. His infatuation with making pictures is what led M.H. Frøslev to explore the silent and haunting experience of walking after dark in the streets of Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Here he developed his photographic sense and his intimate relationship with the Russian cities.

 

Related Links

diskobay.org/books/unsettled-city/

 

Published on February 19, 2019 by Mallory Bracken. 0 Comments

Yiota Tsokou – The Distance

Yiota Tsokou

The Distance

I don’t need you – please stay.

I keep at arm’s length, as though I were a ghost stuck between two worlds. I linger in this moment and time is frozen. I have overanalyzed reality – cut it into little pieces – and now everything lies shattered; deformed.

 

 

The Distance story deals with that very state; how one’s experience of the human condition leaves its mark. It is a story which explores both closeness and togetherness, leaving plenty of room for definitions.

 

 

 

Short Bio

Yiota Tsokou is a Greece-based self-taught photographer. Her interest in photography sparked in 2014, when she started experimenting with analog photography. Her work has been published in a number of publications such as Agitate (Australia, October 2015), Photoklassik (Germany, September 2016), Adore Noir Magazine (Canada, October 2017), Click Magazine (Italy, December 2017), Photographize (USA, February 2018).

 

Related Links

bulbphotos.eu.com/yiota-tsokou

the distance – video 

 

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The Emerging Photographer Fund is supported by generous donors to the Magnum Foundation

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Published on February 13, 2019 by burn magazine. comments closed.

Jake Borden – In Ruins – Displaced Georgians in Tbilisi

Jake Borden

In Ruins – Displaced Georgians in Tbilisi

[ FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2018 SHORTLIST ]

On the outskirts of Georgia’s capital, Tblisi, an abandoned military hospital from the bygone Soviet era serves as a refuge to some one hundred and fifty families unable to find jobs and affordable housing. Tweny-five years after the fall of the Soviet Unions, the occupants represent a fraction of the nearly quarter million internally displaced people inside Georgia, who in 1993 were forced from their homes during government clashes with Russian backed separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

 

 

Local government pays little attention to the building, and when they do it’s to cut off electricity and water which residents have diverted through a jerry-rigged lattice of wires and pipes. Two decades after the conflict, many hold out hope that they will one day be able to return to their homeland and reunite with long lost family members.

 

 

 

Short Bio

Jake Borden is an American photojournalist based in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2015, Borden began assisting VII founder and National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer, managing his extensive archive in the Berkshires and assisting him while abroad. Inspired by Stanmeyer, Borden set out to tell stories of that had the possibility for social impact at home and abroad. He is currently working on a longterm project in Lebanon exploring the lasting social impacts of conflict through the VII Masterclass program, and has had work published by international news outlets such as the BBC and Vice News.

 

Related Links

jakeborden.com

 

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Published on February 5, 2019 by burn magazine. comments closed.