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Hanna Lautreamont
UKRAINE
Born in eastern Ukraine in 1991, Hanna Lautreamont graduated with a master’s degree in languages and the history of Western literature, and went on to work as a lecturer in Western literature at the university for three years before deciding to pursue her childhood dream and lifelong passion: photography. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she relocated to London. Less than a month later, she began an internship at a darkroom photo lab, where she acquired analogue skills such as darkroom printing and film processing. She is currently working on personal projects while developing expertise in photogravure, alternative printing, and other hands-on analogue techniques
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The Meeting of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
This series of photogravures and silver gelatin prints traces the arc of fully hand-crafted image-making, from the alchemy of light on film to the tactile depth of the print on Fabriano paper. The processes reveal not just an image, but the ghost of its becoming. The grain becomes texture, shadows become etchings, silver becomes memory. Within this handmade framework unfolds a theatre of mystery. Figures caught in poses that hover between reverie and performance, objects plucked from dreams, garments that may be costume and skin at once. The compositions evoke the chance encounters and disquieting beauty that Comte de Lautréamont likened to “the meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella”. They lean into the absurd yet elegant juxtapositions of surrealism.
