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"Poetic, careful and abstract, that's how Mathilde Helene PETTERSEN's photographs in the photo book 'I need a kiss before they leave'. The color photographs move in a gray area between documentary and art photography and give the viewer enough leeway to exchange ideas about their own experiences or fears.
It's a shame that Mathilde Helene PETTERSEN's works have so far only been shown in the exhibition 'Norwegian Documentary Photography' in her home country Norway." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"'Stop time. I want you here forever. Never grow up. Never leave.'
The photo book 'I need a kiss before they leave' is an emotional family portrait, filled with immense joy, but also with a disturbing realization of a wonderfulness that cannot be stored.
'I need a kiss before they leave' reflects upon a human desire to freeze time, to forever savoring those moments which are destined to live on only as distant memories.
Photography is of course the artistic technique to actually freeze time and to store a split second forever. In this book, Norwegian photographer Mathilde Helene PETTERSEN captures an entire parenthood, with all its bright and dark moments.
'I need a kiss before they leave' reflects on becoming and being a mother, on building a family, on the immediate and unpredictable, on strengths and fragilities in life, and sometimes on the overshadowing fear of death and the irreversible." (© Kahrer Verlag, 2019)
It's a shame that Mathilde Helene PETTERSEN's works have so far only been shown in the exhibition 'Norwegian Documentary Photography' in her home country Norway." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"'Stop time. I want you here forever. Never grow up. Never leave.'
The photo book 'I need a kiss before they leave' is an emotional family portrait, filled with immense joy, but also with a disturbing realization of a wonderfulness that cannot be stored.
'I need a kiss before they leave' reflects upon a human desire to freeze time, to forever savoring those moments which are destined to live on only as distant memories.
Photography is of course the artistic technique to actually freeze time and to store a split second forever. In this book, Norwegian photographer Mathilde Helene PETTERSEN captures an entire parenthood, with all its bright and dark moments.
'I need a kiss before they leave' reflects on becoming and being a mother, on building a family, on the immediate and unpredictable, on strengths and fragilities in life, and sometimes on the overshadowing fear of death and the irreversible." (© Kahrer Verlag, 2019)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Anna Raisa Kastenberger
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23 cm., 112 pp., 101 color ills., text language: English