Mia Photo Fair BNP Parisbas

Works: Kim Boske, Zana Briski, Annelies Damen, Leila Jeffreys, Vincent Munier

FLAT // LAND is thrilled to announce the European presentation of British photographer and filmmaker Zana Briski. The presentation will debut at MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas.

For over 35 years, Zana Briski has traveled alone to remote wild places, photographing animals from the smallest insect to the largest whale. Briski is the recipient of an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary Feature, an Emmy Award, and 33 additional international awards for her seminal documentary 'Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids'. Since, she makes animalograms, direct life-sized impressions of wild animals on light-sensitive paper. There is no camera or negative involved.

The effect is visceral and profound.

Also presented in Mia Photo Fair BNP Parisbas is the dazzling work of wildlife photographer Vincent Munier (1976, Vosges, France). In 2021 Vincent Munier co-directed the film ‘The Velvet Queen’ with Marie Amiguet, about his search for the amazing snow leopard (Panthera uncia). The documentary received the César Award for Best Documentary Film in 2021. In Milan the gallery will present photographs from his most recent film Le Chant des Forêts (Whispers in the woods), on climate change, habitat loss and the youngest generation to learn about the beauty of nature. The film is already being nominated for many awards!

Related to the vanishing of habitat is the work of Dutch photographer Annelies Damen. Showcasing LAMU, a photographic series regarding the Lamu Archipelago. As this archipelago faces increasing environmental and social pressures—from industrial development to ecological degradation—LAMU reflects on what is at risk beyond the landscape itself: cultural knowledge, cultural knowledge, community structures, and identity.

In Kim Boske's new photographic project Kamiyama, the Japanese island Kamiyama feels not only like an artistic statement, but also like an invitation: to experience landscape, community, and time as a living entity, constantly in motion and deeply interconnected.

Australian photographer Leila Jeffreys' most recent series entitled Stillness focuses on the profound beauty and symbolism of birds' eggs.⁣⁣ In her own words "...eggs embody the possibilities of birth, rebirth, and transformation, symbolising both potential and optimism. On the other hand, they are also delicate and perilously vulnerable, highlighting the fragility of life...

Especially the whitish Wandering Albatross Egg has captured her fully. Leila: "Its shape feels prehistoric, its textures and markings are exquisitely unique, and its size is striking and then to think that within this shell lies the genetic lineage of its species, carrying the inherited traits and adaptations passed down through countless generations of its family.

See you in Milan!!!