Michael Ackerman
Half Life

Half Life – a project initiated in 2004, still developing, changing and progressing. In this original slideshow music plays a role as important as pictures. The title alludes to a chemical notion of semi-disintegration period (also known as half life), but its ambiguity lets us search for other, entirely different interpretations.Half Life consists of photographs dating back to 1996 and later that were part of many different series from New York, Cracow, Warsaw, Katowice, Paris, Naples and Havana. What we are confronted with as a result of such combination is an oneiric, tangled journey into a naked world inhabited by eccentrics and lunatics, evocative landscape full of apprehension, sweat, sex and smoke. However, this apparently gloomy world also seems to be filled with joy and vitality. A new, updated version of the project, created in June 2007, will be presented at the festival. Music: Godspeed You Black Emperor, Cat Power, and more.

Michael Ackerman (born 1967), American photographer, a member of Agence VU from Paris. The author of „End Time City” (1999), awarded the Nadar prize (the most prestigious French award for a photo album) ; also published „Fiction” (2001). He was also awarded the The International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 1998.

Exhibition place :

CSW Laznia (ul. Jaskólcza 1, Gdansk)
August 18 - September 23 (Tue – Sun 12 – 6 pm)
opening: August 17 at 6 pm.

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