Photography & Edit: Petra Godeša Music: Rannar Sillard, SFX Producer
Author: pgodesa
The Sacred Cows
The Sacred Cows project explores the visual topography of the monthly cycle, changing female nature, circulating through space and time.
Grete Stern’s Sueños: Photo montage as a photographic method of female subjectivity
This essay explores the relevance of the chosen visual method, photo montage, for depicting inner reality, in this case dreams, in relation to prevailing ideologies of Western society, specifically to patriarchy and capitalism. This involves analysing Grete Stern’s body of work Sueños (Dreams), through examination of the visual language used in illustrations, societal context of…
The Guardians of Amazonia
/December 2019 – January 2020/ 1. Huni Kuin people have been living in the Amazon jungle for over 1500 years, always calling the forest their home. Huni Kuin translates as “true people.” The tribe speaks its own Kaxinawá language, specifically Hancha Kuin, meaning “true words.” 2. When Huni Kuin people speak about plants,…
Iemanjá
The beginning of February in Bahia marks the festival of Iemanjá, the Yoruban goddess of the sea, mother of fish, a deity of fertility, motherhood and water, the great patron saint of fishermen. In the Yoruba mortuary ideology, dying in the waters means returning to the origin, comfort and shelter of the Mother’s sacred body….