Hannah Modigh

    The Milky Way
    • Location:
      Stockholm, Sweden
    • LensCulture Awards:
      Magnum Photography Awards 2016, Winner, Portrait
      Portrait Awards 2016, Juror's Pick
    • Gallery Representation:
      Galleri Kontrast
      Gallery Kontrast
    • Schools Attended:
      Fatamorgana Photo School, Copenhagen, Denmark 2002-2003. Nordic School of Photography, Photo Journalism, Biskops Arnö, Sweden 2004 – 2007 Royal Institute of art, Stockholm 2012-2013
    About Hannah Modigh
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      Magnum Photography Awards 2016
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      Portrait Awards 2016
    • The Milky Way
      Hannah Modigh
      The time between adolescence and adulthood is fraught with mercurial shifts in mood, awkward bodies, and charged interactions—”a crucial time in our lives that we can never get back.”
    • Hillbilly heroin, honey
      Hannah Modigh
      Rural Appalachia is known for its poverty and social problems—instead, these still, atmospheric photographs focus on the locals’ unique bind to their fading community. In the photographer’s words, “The crack in the soul is more important than the one on the wall.”
    • Hurricane Season
      Hannah Modigh
      Soft and beautiful from a distance, but uneasy upon closer inspection—each of these photos, made on the streets of New Orleans, tells a story in which the surface tensions are just about ready to burst.
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