About the Book
From Berlin to Saint Petersburg, via Odessa or Italy, the place of this book is ultimately the night. Alisa Resnik crosses it, explores its entrails, goes to meet it, in the deserted streets and landscapes where a few furtive silhouettes slip by, in the pale interiors and the apparitions of fragile or sometimes ecstatic faces.
From muted glimmers to bursts of colour in the shadows, the photographer describes what might seem like a wandering, but which turns out to be her journey and her story. The story, quivering and subtle, of one who belongs nowhere and yet is entirely part of this nocturnal world. Through her powerful images, she reveals its beauty and grace. Then, like a welcoming home, it receives and envelops her. As the pages turn, Alisa Resnik takes us along with her and we surrender to the brutality as well as the sweetness of the night. Caroline Bénichou
By The Way
Sleepers Poets Scientists is an umbrella for female composers and music producers. Vol. 2 compiles 8 Georgian composers: Anushka Chkheidze, Natalie Beridze, sTia, Tamo Nasidze, Tamta Gwarliani, ELY ANN, Nasi Chavchavadze and Nina Simonishvili, all of whom are CES graduates of Music Production course led by Natalie Beridze,
-> Further information: https://www.lamaindonne.fr/produit/on-the-night-that-we-leave/
About the Artist
Alisa Resnik was born in 1976 in St Petersburg and moved to Berlin in 1990. After studying art history in Berlin and Bologna, she began taking photographs in 2008. In 2013 Resnik won the European Publishers Award for Photography. 2014 she was a finalist for the Oskar Barnack Award.
Her book One Another was published simultaneously in five editions (Kehrer Verlag (D), Actes Sud (FR), Peliti Associati (I), Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) and Blume(ES)).
She’s been a member of Prospekt Photography Agency since 2009 and a member of TEMPS ZERO collective since 2012.
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