| | | |  | | | Benita Suchodrev
"48 HOURS BLACKPOOL"
Texts by Matthias Harder, Helmut Newton Foundation
and Benita Suchodrev
Hardcover 30 x 24 cm
160 pages
120 duotone illustrations
German / English | | | | | | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL | | | New Release Kehrer Verlag
Book Signing PARIS PHOTO | | | Thursday 8 November 2018, 2pm
Booth SE 06 / KEHRER | | | | benitasuchodrev.com | www.kehrerverlag.com | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | "Benita Suchodrev transforms the street into a stage. She makes something visible that most of us overlook: the face in the crowd." (Dr. Matthias Harder, Helmut Newton Foundation)
"Seaside resorts are normally places of rest and contemplation; in 48 Hours Blackpool Benita Suchodrev shows us something very different. In the chaos laid bare by the rough winds of Brexit England, everyone and everything are stirred up by the storm. Benita Suchodrev's camera is the Eye of the hurricane." (Michael Biedowicz, DIE ZEIT) | | | | | |  | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | | From sunrise to sunset, on the famous promenade and surrounding alleys in the resort town on the Irish Sea, the Russian-American-Berliner Benita Suchodrev lets life unfold before her camera. Relying on her intuition, during a couple of summer days the photographer documents her encounters with strangers. Her manner is daring and swift, always capturing the 'decisive moment.' Like all her documentary and portrait work, housed in private collections in Berlin, Moscow, and New York, the high-contrast black-and-white photographs in 48 Hours Blackpool are intense and devoid of sensationalism. Suchodrev’s debut book is a sociocultural study rich in authenticity and poetry; a contemporary but timeless journey of discovery through bingo parlors, hot dog stands, and burlesque theaters where wacky types, moms and pops, kids and seagulls go to play. | | | | | |  | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | "Blackpool is after all a weekend getaway; a traditional destination for no-holds-barred stag and hen parties and wacky characters. It is also a playground for kids with painted faces wearing candy-colored tops, gangsta hoodies, and fake tattoos, fervidly dragging their moms and pops (and vice versa) in and out, to and fro amusement parks, bingo halls, arcades, and restaurants. “Kids eat free!” A sense of self-perpetuating urgency and appetite pervades the air, accompanied by the frantic cry of seagulls. In this vortex of bread and circuses, mouths and hands are always busy with fish & chips, Blackpool rock candy, and cell phones. Mini dramas and the occasional contemplative moment pop up when least expected. I hold them forever still by the click of the shutter." (excerpt from "Seagulls and Metaphors" by Benita Suchodrev)
"Through this spontaneous and intuitive way of taking photographs, the people, indeed society as a whole, depicts itself, in a sense – Suchodrev only provides the mirror. And yet, with the Blackpool series, she broadens our view and takes us on a journey of discovery. Her observations are both intense and exploratory, visualized encounters with strangers that happen fast, virtually unfiltered... Her pictures – half situational, half portrait – are at the same time individual and typological; every represented subject is a representative of another Blackpool visitor. Seen in its entirety, “48 Hours Blackpool” is a visual metaphor for the British working class, and although it can sometimes be quite dark and pitiless, is portrayed here with benevolence." (excerpt from “Rough Beauty” by Dr. Matthias Harder) | | | | | |  | | | | © Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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