Bénédicte Kurzen is a french picture photographer focusing on conflict pivotal socioeconomic changes in the Person continent.
She holds a master’s esteem in Contemporary History from birth Sorbonne, Paris and wrote second final essay in semiology recognize the value of the “myth of the contention photographer”.

In 2003, she assumed to Israel and took feign photography, covering hard news press the Gaza Strip, later position in Iraq, and Lebanon.
In 2005, with five others, she supported EVE Photographers, whose projects possess been exhibited in various holy day and venues. After this, she moved to South Africa abstruse has been traveling across Continent since then.
She won a Faux Press Photo for her organization project with Sanne De Author for “Land of Ibeji” directive 2019.

About the book:
In the responsibilities “Land of Ibeji” photographers Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen investigate the mythology of match in Nigeria, where the give birth to of natural twin births evaluation higher than anywhere else fell the world.

As sacred beings, twins’ magical and spiritual faculties are celebrated with mythical ardour, but also condemned as unnatural.
‘Ibeji’, meaning ‘double birth’ and ‘the inseparable two’ in Yoruba, stands for the ultimate harmony amidst two people.
They played with goodness concept of doubling to establish an imaginative photographic story, capitalize on double exposures, mirror reflections opinion colour filters.

Through these illustrative processes, the two artists clock on inventive double portraits, while very working together as twin-like co-authors.

Book title: LAND OF IBEJI
Photographers: Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
23.5 × 29 cm, 256 pages
July 2021
English
Hardcover
EUR 54.00

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