"Julia KISSINA's photographs are often populated by characters that are eerie to us. Bodies deform, children grow additional arms and legs and their 'freaks' seem to come from another galaxy, even if they look like humans.
Now the photographer has discovered another species right on her doorstep. Julia KISSINA creates a world in her pictures in which the usual visual experience fails: there is no up and down, three-dimensional becomes flat, gravity disappears. As with a carousel ride, the viewer loses orientation, but the staggering look ends up right next to the strange characters who dominate the scenery.
Julia KISSINA has taken the photos of the series 'When Shadows Cast People' from her balcony in Berlin over the past three years. The situation is reversed from this perspective: the shadows in her pictures have made themselves independent of the people and usually perform their own spectacle unnoticed, in which people become marginal figures. Mickey Mouse, Nosferatu, Minotaur appear in it just like a serial killer, a bear with a revolver or a multi-story woman ... and even Jimi Hendrix saw them.
The small, linen-bound and beautifully printed volume is a great, thought-provoking pleasure." (publisher's note, © Hannes WANDERER, Peperoni Books, 2010)