Sunday, February 27, 2011

Monday, November 30, 2009

Eternal Flame








Hanna Liden

born 1976
Stockholm Sweeden
Graduated from Parsons in 2002
BFA in Photography

Her photographs are spooky and supernatural; consisting mostly of desolate landscapes filled with dramatic mist filled swamps, snowy shadowed trees, or dreary lakes that would never be found on any vacation destination list. The figures that inhabit these photos are often shrouded in masks, hoods or veils made of human hair. Her work has a romantic attachment to Goth aesthetics that is very prevalent in a lot of new artists work. The undertones of medieval almost halloweenish imagery in her work has been compared to Ingmar Bergman's " Seventh Seal" and in keeping with the documentary photo work capturing the Norse black metal scene. Whatever, just check it out....