| | | | | | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | Of Lions and Lambs | | | | 17 May - 28 June, 2024 | | | Opening: Thursday, 16 May, 7pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, 4 June, 7pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | | In her solo exhibition at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain the Berlin-based Russian-American photographer Benita Suchodrev combines two bodies of work about the same place: the British seaside resort of Blackpool, a magnet to mass tourism in the summer months and at the same time one of the poorest cities in England. | | | | | | | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | In 48 Hours Blackpool (Kehrer Verlag 2018), the photographer dives with her camera into the lively world of entertainment at the seaside resort over a brief period, letting life unfold before our eyes. Relying on her intuition, during a couple of summer days she documents her encounters with strangers, swift and daring, always capturing the 'decisive moment' and making something visible that most of us overlook: the face in the crowd.
Of Lions and Lambs (Kehrer Verlag 2019) is being presented for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition and shows the harsh reality away from the tourist season. Social injustice and precarious livelihoods characterize the cityscape in a grey winter month. The high contrast black and white photographs are intense, authentic, raw and mysterious. The street becomes a stage with an abundance of bizarre characters, each picture is a narrative about the inevitability of time revealing a deeply human approach to photography. | | | | | | | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | "A complex pictorial-psychological investigation into a disenchanted reality and the nature of being, reminiscent of the cinema of Federico Fellini and the black-and-white English films of 1960s’ social realism."
- Mark Gisbourne, Art historian, Critic, Curator | | | | | | | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | "Intoxicating and authentic, Suchodrev’s narratives could be a daydream-like film told through stills, as in Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story or the work of Jim Jarmusch."
- Matthias Harder, Director, Helmut Newton Foundation
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www.kehrerverlag.com | | | | | | | | | Benita Suchodrev: Of Lions and Lambs
HC 24 x 31 cm
368 pages
206 duotone ills.
Texts: Mark Gisbourne, Matthias Harder, Benita Suchodrev
English, German
Design: Benita Suchodrev and Kehrer Design
ISBN 978-3-86828-949-7
www.kehrerverlag.com | Benita Suchodrev: 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
(out of print - contact the artist)
HC 30 x 24 cm
160 pages
120 duotone ills.
Texts: Matthias Harder, Benita Suchodrev
English, German
Design: Benita Suchodrev and Kehrer Design
ISBN 978-3-86828-870-4
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