In Absence

Text by : Monika Macdonald
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Release date : février 2016
ISBN : 978-3868286793
Book size : 22 x 28 cm
Language : English
72 pages

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“I don’t like the idea of taking pictures very much. But I keep coming back to that. This feeling of getting close to things for which there are no words. That’s why I keep going. I balance between different worlds and try to build a relationship with them. My pictures are memories. To gain access to the feeling of loneliness and vulnerability. To be let into the realms beyond reason, far from what is called reality.” (Monika Macdonald)
The women portrayed in In Absence have one thing in common: their lonely search for belonging – to something or to someone. This autobiographical report, which is also a psychological and intimate reflection, runs through the pictures like a red thread. Women are soul mates, in their hesitation and insecurity, in their longing for some form of love. In Absence comes from motherhood – without necessarily being part of a maternal world. Monika Macdonald (*1969) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.