synopsis
In Find a Fallen Star, Regine Petersen uses the stories of meteorite falls as a background for her multifaceted narratives; a rock crashing through the roof of an Alabama home in the 1950s and hitting a woman, a group of children recovering a meteorite in their village in post-war Germany, and a more recent event in India involving two Rajasthani nomads. Petersen visited the places and the eyewitnesses and delved into their stories, expanding her photographic observations with found documents and interviews. Just as meteorites could be considered time capsules, each chapter encapsulates a specific place in a certain time, questioning the notions of memory and history and the relationship between the ordinary and the sublime.
Find a Fallen Star has gained numerous awards such as the National Media Museum Bursary UK and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Prize for Contemporary German Photography.
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publisher : Kehrer Verlag
2015
144 pages
78 b/w and color photos
20 x 25 cm
2015
144 pages
78 b/w and color photos
20 x 25 cm
about Regine Petersen
Regine Petersen is born in Hamburg (Germany) in 1976. After studying design and photography at the University of Hamburg, Regine Petersen continued her training at the Royal College of Arts in London. His series Stars fell on Alabama has been exhibited in Tucson (USA), Munich, Milan, Savignano and in the official program of the Rencontres d'Arles 2013 (short list of the Discovery Prize).
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publisher : Kehrer Verlag
2015 (1st edition)
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2015 (1st edition)
signed