Mango Season
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Beschreibung
Jenia Fridlyand grew up in the Soviet Union in the years just prior to perestroika. Visiting Cuba in the second decade of the twenty-first century, then, felt like an uncanny homecoming. While both tangible and familiar, the grim fabric of the communist quotidian kept unravelling for Fridlyand under the bright, tropical sun. With a large-format camera and a photographic practice rooted in the American tradition, Fridlyand traveled throughout the island during several extended trips. She intuitively trained her lens on moments and scenes with the potential of holding both the known and the novel—from a pair of donkeys silhouetted against hilltops, a customer at a barber shop and a pair of rocking chairs seen through an open door, to drops of sweat on a man’s curved back and sweet fruit hanging ripe on a tree.
Co-published with The Agency, Hudson Valley
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Jenia Fridlyand
Born in Moscow in 1975, Jenia Fridlyand immigrated to the United States in 1989. Coming to photography later in life, she received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Hartford’s International Low-Residency Program in 2016. Fridlyand’s photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Her artist’s book Entrance to Our Valley was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First Photobook Award in 2017, and the trade edition published by TIS Books is now in its third printing. Fridlyand is a co-founder of the non-profit educational collective Image Threads, and is the founding chair of the Long Term Photobook Program at the Penumbra Foundation in New York.
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