Spotlight: Ida Anderson ‘Blue Valentines’
Through intimate photographs with a distinct blue hue, Ida Anderson shares a body of work that speaks to the sense of grief and displacement for Russian émigrés. ‘Blue Valentines’ consists of a culmination of postcards that explores collective memory, loss and the potential for healing through fragments of the good and the bad, home and war.
Spotlight: Annemarie Deckers
Annemarie Decker explores her sense of alienation in ‘In Minor Key’, an exploration of photographs that can represent both despair and poetry. Explaining how her work is pervaded by a sense of melancholy whilst searching for a beauty to counter it.
Sunday Spotlight: Heather Evans Smith
Heather Evans Smith channels the loss of her father during her mid 40’s, motherhood, hormonal changes and depression in her body of work titled ‘Blue’. Using the colour blue’s association to melancholy to explore the sadness in this period of her life and how it affects those around her.
Sunday Spotlight: Oliver Raschka
In 'Sorrow Is All The Pain Of Love', Oliver Raschka keeps a kind of photographic diary exploring the unintentional and unconscious documentation of states of mind and how they manifest visually. The work itself dealing with the personal sorrow of loss and pain in the search for identity.
Sunday Spotlight: Ana Angilau
'Thinking A Lot About Life <3' by Ana Angilau explores themes of mortality, death, culture and religion. The body of work intending to challenge the absoluteness of a conditional life by understanding what matters most.
Sunday Spotlight: Presley Rives
In 'Until the Light Shines Again', Presley Rives uses images as a visual journal to cope, explore her internal self and document the highs and lows that come with depression. Originating from daily journal practices, her images capture moments that give her a reason to live. Light being used in the work as a symbol of hope and foreshadowing of better days.
Sunday Spotlight: Amy Fleming
In ‘When Did I Stop Being Invincible?’, Amy Fleming creates an exploration of living life with a newfound anxiety disorder. Capturing small moments of time passing and mundane surroundings to show the viewer how she experiences her daily reality.
Sunday Spotlight: Maria Siorba
‘Blank Verse’ by Maria Siorba, focuses on the subject of observing and searching within the soul and inner landscape of others. Siorba uses the camera as a personal ‘reality testing’ tool to be able to explore the channels that navigate the collective and individual unconsciousness creatively and propose our very own journey of discovery.
Sunday Spotlight: DMT
DMT’s ‘Holyday’ narrates post traumatic stress disorder through documentary photography primarily of family members. Their body language rearranged to match the surreal and storied pictures inside DMT’s head.
