Hardback 1st edition
Kehrer Verlag (2016)
72 pages
42 color photos
english
hardback 28 cm x 22 cm

SIGNED COPY

“I am not so fond of the idea of taking pictures. But I always return to it. The sense of getting close to something that has no words. This is why I continue. I balance between different worlds that I am trying to relate to. My pictures are memories. To have access to the feeling of solitude and vulnerability. To be allowed beyond sanity, far away from what is called reality.” (Monika Macdonald)

The women portrayed in In Absence all have one thing in common: their solitary search for belonging – to something or someone. This autobiographical account, which is also a psychological and intimate reflection, runs like a common thread throughout the images. The women are likeminded in their hesitation and uncertainty
Monika Macdonald’s own words perfectly set the tone for experiencing the images included in In Absence. She says, ‘there is a kind of erotic magnetism emanating from the people portrayed, rather than originating in the eye of the beholder. Instead of enticing interaction, it is an invitation to peek into a private world.’ Here, through tender touches between people to moments of intimacy experienced between one person and their own thoughts, the theme of privacy is explored.

Monika Macdonald was born in 1969. She moved to Stockholm after graduation and studied photography for two years.
In year 2001 she moved to London and worked as a freelancer, primarily making reportage for newspapers and magazines. She returned to Sweden in 2007 and has since then focused on working with her self initiated project. Represented by Galerie VU’ in France, Paris.

http://monikamacdonald.com/