all pictures from the series “Satellite”. 2010

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MARTINA HOOGLAND IVANOW ,born in Sweden in 1973, lives and works in Stockholm. She studied photography at Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York. Her photos have already been published in Another Magazine, Dazed & Confused, and Blindspot and have been shown in the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), in Brandts Museet for fotokunst (Denmark) and in the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Satellite comprises a series of photographs of various “alternative” communities. Not least, the pictures investigate the love affairs and family relationships of the people portrayed; their involvement in these relationships or their alienation from emotional and social ties.

In these images, MARTINA HOOGLAND IVANOW makes use of dark, fascinating aesthetics and raises a number of questions concerning the “outside” and being an outsider, which are intended not only to affect the subjects of her pictures, but the viewer of the photographs as well.

And if you have the opportunity to be in Sweden, don’t hesitate to view in person her work at GunGallery in Stockholm til November 18th, 2010