Pestka — Magdalena Wywrot. Published by Deadbeat Club.
Struck by lightning—that’s how it felt discovering Wywrot’s work through her book, presented at the Polycopies book market during the recent Paris Photo. In a world flooded with an endless online stream of images and ever-emerging photography books, I often find myself needing to look away, to take a break. So it happened that her work was new to me. And new it truly is. It’s so rare to encounter a visual language entirely its own—and so powerful.
Before I even began to understand the relation between the female figures, the depth of this work, I was captivated by the raw, rock-guitar-like energy that seems to shout from a sky-high platform. Wywrot’s images transcend the high-contrast black-and-white photos of indeterminate nights that we know so well. Snow photographed at night, illuminated by flash, has found a new voice. Finally.
Awoiska van der Molen is based in Amsterdam. She is known for her monumental black-and-white analogue images that represent her experience of the primordial and psychological space in the world she photographs. Her monographs The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves (2024), Sequester (2014), Blanco (2017), and The Living Mountain (2020) are designed and published by Hans Gremmen, Fw:Books.
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