'Postcards from Home' focuses on creating pieces of artwork from home or with pieces that are found around the house. With these constraints, photographers are able to approach the task in a more innovative way, manipulating their houses surroundings to channel external messages and ideas, the themes may vary from focusing on their cultural heritages to concentrating on their mental being.
AÏCHA FALL
Aïcha Fall is an African Editorial&Documentary, People&Lifestyle photographer currently based in Paris, France; she is a storyteller and uses photography as a way to narrate her stories. Fall learned to create links between her identity, her culture and her traditions through artwork; usually communicating them through the intense use of saturated, vibrant colours and pertinent subjects within her images. These strong elements she implements in her pieces highlight tradition and culture which Fall wants to portray.
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"A seat at the table is a study on the body, a fantastic visual tale. It’s also an invitation to another dimension ... I wanted to narrate black bodies capable of doing wonders, or just black bodies existing simply and beautifully. I used the art of mime to illustrate the mechanics of a gesture based on the efficiency of dramatically reproducing another reality, where everything possible. My project aims to break rules in photography by creating an new narrative with endless possibilities. I create my images with essentially what I found around me ... with tools we use in our daily life". |
DELFINA CARMONA
Delfina Carmona is a photographer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina; primarily recognised for her use of shadows and warm tones within loads of her pieces. Carmona's passion for photography began when she was a teenager during the same time she was studying other things linked to art such as theatre and performance, looking back we can see there is a link between both genres, they utilise self expression. Carmona's work is inspired by her own everyday life: waking up, eating and sleeping. It may seem mundane however she turns her routine into a creative and exhilarating thing.
“I see daily life artistically as if it were my own film, where I write the screenplay of what happens to my character step by step”. |
LARRY SULTAN
Larry Sultan was an American photographer who created the series 'Pictures from Home' with an intent of preserving his parents in photographic form. Sultan's series consists of both candid and staged photograph's of his parents from 1982-1992.
"Years ago I would have gone through my mother’s purse for one of her cigarettes and smoked in the dark. It was a magical time that the house was mine.
Tonight, however, I am restless. I sit at the dining-room table; rummage through the refrigerator. What am I looking for? All day long I’ve been scavenging, poking around in rooms and closets, peering at their things, studying them. I arrange my rolls of exposed film into long rows and count and recount them as if they were lost ... What drives me to continue this work is difficult to name. It has more to do with love than with sociology, with being a subject in the drama rather than a witness ... These are my parents. From that simple fact, everything follows. I realize that beyond the rolls of film and the few good pictures, the demands of my project and my confusion about its meaning, is the wish to take photography literally. To stop time. I want my parents to live forever."
-- Larry Sultan