CURRATED: HILLBILLY HEROIN, HONEY by Hannah Modigh
HILLBILLY HEROIN, HONEY by Hannah Modigh
at TTC Gallery 26. Sep. — 25. Oct. 2008
Friday, september 26th the talented swedish photographer Hannah Modigh will present her poetic and melancholic photographs from the small poor mountain city St. Charles, Virginia. Trailerparks and poor white trash americans are the motives in this portrait of a piece of America, tucked away between misty mountains and magnificent scenery.
It is the sole and harsh destinies that are being processed in Hannah Modighs photographic works, but produced and visualized in a beautiful poetic imagery, the focus is on the essentials and intimate in the picture. As she says in an interview: "Lots of people take photos of everyday situation that show things as harsh and ugly. I’d rather go to a place that is rough and try to find the beauty in the people. And I also believe that it's easier to embrace the content if the picture looks beautiful. I don’t like shoving a message in people’s faces."
