ROOM 07

A playful and unsettling response to lockdown. This project navigates a space between autobiography and performance, born out of the artist’s need to control their own mental health while isolating. Part-documentary, part-therapy and powered by anxiety, these photographs depict Mitchell Moreno’s experience through a heightened and distorted lens with reference to Freud’s half mask theory.

A playful and unsettling response to lockdown. This project navigates a space between autobiography and performance, born out of the artist’s need to control their own mental health while isolating. Part-documentary, part-therapy and powered by anxiety, these photographs depict Mitchell Moreno’s experience through a heightened and distorted lens with reference to Freud’s half mask theory.

An ongoing photographic case study using still life images from the artist’s family estate in Bavaria to explore inherited trauma and post-memory. Permeating the imagery is a figurative search for apparent recurrences in history. This project suggests that acknowledging the past’s influence on the present is a way of regaining control.

An ongoing photographic case study using still life images from the artist’s family estate in Bavaria to explore inherited trauma and post-memory. Permeating the imagery is a figurative search for apparent recurrences in history. This project suggests that acknowledging the past’s influence on the present is a way of regaining control.

The backside of a framed postcard depicting Hitler, which was found hidden between some documents in the family archive. Neither the artist nor her mother and grandfather had ever seen it before.

A passage from a book found in the house, ‘The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke’ by Rainer Maria Rilke (1899), which critically references the atrocities of WWI, with a bookmark between the pages. The text is written in old German type, a font later banned by Hitler, as it was hard to read for other countries and therefore 'prevented the German ideology from spreading'. Ironically, it is still sometimes used by the far-right scene today. Book page translation: ‘They are riding across a slain peasant. His eyes are open wide, something is reflecting in them; no sky. Later, dogs are howling.' Bookmark translation: ‘Your sacrifice brings joy’ From the winter mission for the Russian front during WWII (asking for donations for German soldiers)

Genesis Imaging Award Warawar Wawa means Son of the Stars in the Aymara language, the project transposes Antoine Saint Exupery’s book Le Petit Prince within contemporary Andean culture. With a focus on Bolivia, River Claure challenges how different cultures have, throughout history, been controlled and reduced by foreign photography and othered through exoticisation.

The Pretend Villages documents the inhabitants and structures of imagined, fabricated Iraqi and Afghan villages on the training grounds of U.S. military bases. Situated in the deep forests of North Carolina and Louisiana and in a great expanse of desert near Death Valley in California, these villages serve as strange and poignant way stations for soldiers headed off to war, and for those who have fled from it: American troops encounter actors, often recent immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan, who are paid to be “cultural role-players.” Christopher Sims photographed in these surprising and fantastical realms over a fifteen-year period as U.S. wars abroad fluctuated in intensity—with this work, he presents an archival record of “enemy” village life that is as convincingly accurate and comically misdirected as it is mundane and nightmarish. This project was selected by Louise Fedetov-Clements, FORMAT Co-Founder and Director and Niamh Treacy, FORMAT Coordinator as part of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards; an international photography call for up-and-coming image makers of all ages and backgrounds working across all genres. Selected photographers are provided with the resources they need to get their career off to a strong start including awards and two different international group exhibitions including FORMAT21 UK, and a week long poster exhibition on the streets of East London, UK. Founded in 2008 by Alison Zavos Editor-in-Chief based in Sydney Australia, Feature Shoot showcases the work of international emerging and established photographers with contributing writers from all over the world and a wide range of interests, the platform features contemporary work from all genres of photography. Feature Shoot believes that photography is a powerful mode of storytelling, and shares works that have a strong narrative vision.

In what way does human sensory perception take place in a high-tech world for connections outside of what is apparently possible? Perception is first of all the recognition of an object or state in our immediate environment with the help of our 5 senses. With the help of technical devices, we can exceed the limits that are set biologically for us and expand them many times. The perception of such, invisible subjects and states therefore often first takes place in an abstract way with values that are assigned to certain parameters and can be visualized based on this. The clear way of representing values is in a graphic, drawing or a scaled model. Since size relationships play a decisive role here, in some cases you are forced to not display the relationships of objects proportionally to one another in order to be able to ensure that they are clearly recognizable. The series “Cognition” deals with this topic by using terms from the fields of physics and astronomy and presenting them in simplified models, build with daily objects and studio equipment. This project was selected by Louise Fedetov-Clements, FORMAT Co-Founder and Director and Niamh Treacy, FORMAT Coordinator as part of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards; an international photography call for up-and-coming image makers of all ages and backgrounds working across all genres. Selected photographers are provided with the resources they need to get their career off to a strong start including awards and two different international group exhibitions including FORMAT21 UK, and a week long poster exhibition on the streets of East London, UK. Founded in 2008 by Alison Zavos Editor-in-Chief based in Sydney Australia, Feature Shoot showcases the work of international emerging and established photographers with contributing writers from all over the world and a wide range of interests, the platform features contemporary work from all genres of photography. Feature Shoot believes that photography is a powerful mode of storytelling, and shares works that have a strong narrative vision.

Addressing the use of traditional plant-based medicine is a gateway to the diverse flora that the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people have long used and protected. But today, this consciousness linked to plants is in danger of disappearing. The epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic has moved to the Peruvian Amazon, endangering the lives of the indigenous Shipibo-Konibo people. Faced with government negligence over the lack of medical care and the only Amazonian hospital overcrowded, the Shipibo-Konibo created a group of traditional healers in order to heal their people with the use of their plant-based medicine. From thousands of plants, the Shipibo recognizes 100 species of native flora, among which more than 40 are for their medicinal use. This demonstrates their vast knowledge of the variety of plant species and their close relationship with the biodiversity of the Amazon. However, in December 2020, more than 209 179 confirmed cases and 3 106 deceased were reported by the Peruvian Department of Indigenous Peoples, including elders and indigenous leaders with the symptoms of COVID-19. "Plants don’t leave us, and we don’t leave our plants", states Ronald Suárez, president of the indigenous organization Coshikox. Ronald lost his mother along with seven other relatives due to Covid-19. He states that the disappearance of the Shipibo-Konibo elders is extremely serious because with them goes the library of knowledge linked to the use of plants and the biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon. Like Ronald, many Shipibo-Konibo consider this situation as a genocide by abandonment. This project was selected by Louise Fedetov-Clements, FORMAT Co-Founder and Director and Niamh Treacy, FORMAT Coordinator as part of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards; an international photography call for up-and-coming image makers of all ages and backgrounds working across all genres. Selected photographers are provided with the resources they need to get their career off to a strong start including awards and two different international group exhibitions including FORMAT21 UK, and a week long poster exhibition on the streets of East London, UK. Founded in 2008 by Alison Zavos Editor-in-Chief based in Sydney Australia, Feature Shoot showcases the work of international emerging and established photographers with contributing writers from all over the world and a wide range of interests, the platform features contemporary work from all genres of photography. Feature Shoot believes that photography is a powerful mode of storytelling, and shares works that have a strong narrative vision.

As the human face assumes the role of the fingerprint, Dávid Biró questions how far our duty to be identified extends and at what point human monitoring becomes authoritarian surveillance. By creating face-imitating installations, he tests the mechanisms of facial recognition systems against what the human eye can identify.

As the human face assumes the role of the fingerprint, Dávid Biró questions how far our duty to be identified extends and at what point human monitoring becomes authoritarian surveillance. By creating face-imitating installations, he tests the mechanisms of facial recognition systems against what the human eye can identify.

Meet the artist of PANDEMANIAC in a one-to-one Zoom, where you’ll be asked to select a number of photographs from the series. Moreno won’t tell your fortune, but they will share their experiences behind the images, and invite you to respond to the work if you wish.

In this photographic essay, Ingmar Björn Nolting explores German society during an exceptional crisis. Taken on the frontlines and in the backyards of the covid19 pandemic, the photographs create a coherent, more comprehensive and personal document of the response from a nation often associated with bureaucracy, control and order.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012).

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012).

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

A collaboration with clairvoyants combining photography, psychic drawings and automatic writing as the artist attempts to trace an image of her deceased father and control an uncertain history. With findings rooted in both fact and fiction, these images present fractured and contradictory versions of the same story, exploring what forms in the absence of evidence.

MacDonaldStrand invite viewers to download, fill in and colour their own interpretation of the most popular photographs of all time (2012). Submissions will be hung on the virtual gallery walls throughout the exhibition. Click on the image to download your PDF and for full instructions of how to submit to the exhibition.

My version of Alfred Eisensyardt Newyork 1945 from Format 21 #mpoat2012

My response to the "Most Popular of All Time" exhibition which is now on at Format21 Festival, a virtual exhibition. Visit the works in Room 7!

Here is my contribution to ‘Most popular of All Time’ by #MacDonaldStrand #MPOAT2012 #formatfestival