Martina Hoogland Ivanow is an artist working primarily with photography and film, exploring the interplay between filtered light, sound and image. The artist’s latest book ‘Shadow Works, Living the Dream’, published by Livraison Books, presents a newly edited selection spanning thirty years of her photography. The book includes images from her series Speedway (2002 – 2005), Far Too Close (2002 – 2007), Elephant and Castle (2009), Satellite (2009 – 2010), Circular Wait (2010 – 2014), Early Reading (2016 – 2018), Re-enactment (2016 – 2019) and Second Nature (2019 – 2024). It also features fashion editorial work from 1994 to the early 2000s, originally published in Dazed & Confused, 10 Magazine, The Face and Another.
“I’ve been thinking about what comes before and after, about repetition and the potential of abstraction. Certain themes emerge — irrationality, theatricality, and the ways we play with identity. It’s multi–layered and interspersed. (…) In my relationship with the camera, I have developed methods involving visual displacements and the manipulation of shadows to create a visual language characterised by reduction and abstraction. In this respect, analogue photography and the darkroom have been useful, as the opacity or transparency of the negative, when exaggerated, creates the possibility of absence. I find that a camera often captures more information than the human eye can register, and therefore explores the possibility of showing less.“ – Martina Hoogland Ivanow
