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Strong and impressive. Very good model :)

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Take more photos. Pay attention to the diversity of scenes.

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Linear layout. Make the photos the same size.

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- Advice: Shooting twice for one position and scene. One from the front and one from back.
* Not adopted...I  really like this idea but I'm afraid that the continuity can't be guaranteed 'cause not every scene can go well this way; Additionally, it is also limited by shooting location (my home).

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The most difficult task for me. Try many times to make it but it is interesting to try different shutter speed and find the balance.

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I use a plastic bag in front of my camera and a lamp in front of me. Slow shutter speed is used to make it blur.

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A little bit challenging to find the appropriate aperture.

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For the low key one, I put the rose next to the window and use the natural light. And for the high key, I close the curtains and use a lamp above it. The high key one really works.

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Similar theme: mental crisis. loneliness. uncertainty. The lack of the sense of belonging.

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The use of slow shutter speed and the sense of loss.

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Moving to Poland in Search of Inner Freedom

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Moving to Poland in Search of Inner Freedom

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By Alena Kakhanovich.

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Belarusian artist Alena Kakhanovich uses photography to explore the mental constrictions that arise when moving to a new country. Turning the camera on herself and other people with similar sensations, Kakhanovich offers an intimate view of her experience living in a neighbourhood that was once the Warsaw Ghetto.

This project is about searching for internal freedom. We live within limits and boundaries, both physical and psychological, and the only way to liberation is to leave our own captivity, where we are the most severe jailers. How do you learn not to interfere with yourself and be happy?

A few years ago I moved to live in Poland and took up residence in the former Warsaw Ghetto territory. I had a lot of hope and confidence. However, my first years in a new place were not easy. The biggest difficulty was to lose a sense of home. As if I left one and did not move into another. I was stuck between two worlds, and I had the full feeling that I was alone here. I stayed in my inner prison and physically lived in a territory which was a prison for an entire people. I began to build my own ghetto wall inside my soul.

In my project, I tried to explore this subject. I made portraits of people experiencing similar feelings - confusion, loneliness, and imprisonment without physically existing barriers. To my mind, not the walls fell around us, not the system or power destruction, not money, but we ourselves make us feel free. Our house is always inside and even if the body is weak, the spirit soars.
Words and Pictures by Alena Kakhanovich

Alena Kakhanovich is a Belarusian visual artist and photographer. She graduated from the Belarusian State University in 2008 and finished the Academy of Photography in Warsaw in 2016. Her work focuses on psychology, people, relationships, and the subject of memory and mythology as portrayed through photography. Find her on PHmuseum and Instagram. This feature is part of Story of the Week, a selection of relevant projects from our community handpicked by the PHmuseum curators. .

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Moving to Poland in Search of Inner Freedom

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Belarusian artist Alena Kakhanovich uses photography to explore the mental constrictions that arise when moving to a new country. Turning the camera on herself and other people with similar sensations, Kakhanovich offers an intimate view of her experience living in a neighbourhood that was once the Warsaw Ghetto.

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The use of plastic accessories to create an effect of suffocation.

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The reference for composition and body position, especially the one of lying on the bed and the one standing alone infornt of the curtain.

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The topic of mental issues is similar to mine. Body position preference.

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- Shadow
- water on the plastic wrap
- Mirror
- *??? Circles and Square: representations of rules.
An old Chinese saying “Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards.“
- Flower
- Slow shutter speed

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FINAL PROJECT - SUBJECTIVITY, OBJECTIVITY AND POWER

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FINAL PROJECT - SUBJECTIVITY, OBJECTIVITY AND POWER

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Moving to Poland in Search of Inner Freedom

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Moving to Poland in Search of Inner Freedom

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By Alena Kakhanovich.

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Belarusian artist Alena Kakhanovich uses photography to explore the mental constrictions that arise when moving to a new country. Turning the camera on herself and other people with similar sensations, Kakhanovich offers an intimate view of her experience living in a neighbourhood that was once the Warsaw Ghetto.

This project is about searching for internal freedom. We live within limits and boundaries, both physical and psychological, and the only way to liberation is to leave our own captivity, where we are the most severe jailers. How do you learn not to interfere with yourself and be happy?

A few years ago I moved to live in Poland and took up residence in the former Warsaw Ghetto territory. I had a lot of hope and confidence. However, my first years in a new place were not easy. The biggest difficulty was to lose a sense of home. As if I left one and did not move into another. I was stuck between two worlds, and I had the full feeling that I was alone here. I stayed in my inner prison and physically lived in a territory which was a prison for an entire people. I began to build my own ghetto wall inside my soul.

In my project, I tried to explore this subject. I made portraits of people experiencing similar feelings - confusion, loneliness, and imprisonment without physically existing barriers. To my mind, not the walls fell around us, not the system or power destruction, not money, but we ourselves make us feel free. Our house is always inside and even if the body is weak, the spirit soars.
Words and Pictures by Alena Kakhanovich

Alena Kakhanovich is a Belarusian visual artist and photographer. She graduated from the Belarusian State University in 2008 and finished the Academy of Photography in Warsaw in 2016. Her work focuses on psychology, people, relationships, and the subject of memory and mythology as portrayed through photography. Find her on PHmuseum and Instagram. This feature is part of Story of the Week, a selection of relevant projects from our community handpicked by the PHmuseum curators. .

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Moving to Poland in Search of Inner Freedom

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Belarusian artist Alena Kakhanovich uses photography to explore the mental constrictions that arise when moving to a new country. Turning the camera on herself and other people with similar sensations, Kakhanovich offers an intimate view of her experience living in a neighbourhood that was once the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Still Life behind Plastic with Sweltering Heat and Rising Seas

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Still Life behind Plastic with Sweltering Heat and Rising Seas

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By Tine Poppe, 2018.

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Still Life behind Plastic with Sweltering Heat and Rising Seas

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The young generation of today inherit a planet moving quickly towards a climate catastrophe. How many warnings will the world leaders need before they take serious action to heal the damage made by their own and former generations, to save the future of their children and grand children? Ongoing project.

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By Katarina Juricic, 2018.

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'Home Seack' and 'Orange&Blue' are the first two chapters in my ongoing research which brings together materialization of memory and physicality of photography.

We see, think and live in images. And more often than not, images we encounter are digital and therefore immaterial, yet we accept them as real. Taking this paradox as a starting point for my work, I study the potential of photography to visualize the equally intangible, but more mysterious concept of human memory.

In the time when we engage with the world from the surface of our screens which in turn simplifies and dematerliaizes our experience of the world, my work follows the desire to re-establish an emotional and physical connection to the environment. The final form of the work are installations in which light, colors, materials and motifs from the photographic work expand into the space and create a 'living image'.

The first chapter, 'Home Seack', is a reflection on a very common state of coexistence in several places at once, both physically and virtually. Abstract associations I have with the island of Brač are translated into a photo series of staged compositions with objects and places encountered during the stay on the island, which collectively represent my idea of home.

Summers are when I actually go back home and switch to the Croatian state of mind. There is this feeling I have every time I arrive on Brač - I feel relieved. With the series I'm evoking this same feeling again. But, being far away from the island turns the relief into homesickness, which in my case becomes homeseackness.

'Staring at the Sun and the Sea. The scenery is magical and I feel relieved. The light and the colors nurture my eyes, and the images remain in my mind. Infinite combinations of Orange and Blue, compressed in a memory where reality merges with fantasy.'

The second chapter, 'Orange&Blue', builds upon the feeling and atmosphere of 'Home Seack' and further explores the mental images and emotional state related to the Sun and the Sea. I recall a very familiar yet sublime experience of Sunrise and Sunset, a scenery both visually and emotionally profound, and use the means of Light, Form and Color to capture the essence of it.

By taking the iconic imagery of sunrises and sunsets which our memory is loaded with as a reference, I'm using the darkness of the photo studio as a place to recreate the full range of sunlight colors which we experience throughout the day. Orange and blue light serve as a tool to come as close as possible to the feeling one has when being in the sun and soaking its warmth and color. Throughout the process of re-imagining the iconic imagery, figuration reaches abstraction and all that's left in the image are light, form and color - ultimately the constitutive elements of both photographic as well as mental imagery.

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'Home Seack' and 'Orange&Blue' are the first two chapters in my ongoing research which brings together materialization of memory and physicality of photography. We see, think and live in images. And more often than not, images we encounter are digital and therefore immaterial, yet we accept them as real.

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Still Life behind Plastic with Sweltering Heat and Rising Seas - Tine Poppe

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Still Life behind Plastic with Sweltering Heat and Rising Seas - Tine Poppe

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Still Life behind Plastic with Sweltering Heat and Rising Seas

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The young generation of today inherit a planet moving quickly towards a climate catastrophe. How many warnings will the world leaders need before they take serious action to heal the damage made by their own and former generations, to save the future of their children and grand children? Ongoing project.