HAPAX Magazine issue 5 includes seven new photographic projects by Tshepiso Moropa (ZA), Jenny Lewis (UK), Mohsen Yazdipour (IR), Regine Petersen (DE), Máté Bartha (HU), Issam Larkat (DZ) and Amak Mahmoodian (UK).

ISSN 2754-2882
80 pages
Softcover, stitched binding and gatefolds
Published March 2024 (UK)
Dimension 23.5 x 17.5 cm

CONTRIBUTORS:

Amak Mahmoodian is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and educator. She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran; since 2007, she has been living in the UK where she practices as a visual artist and lecturer in Photography. Working with photography, text, video, drawing, archives and sound at the intersection of conceptual and documentary photography, Mahmoodian’s artistic practice explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, bridging a space between personal and political. Her projects are produced across platforms such as installations, books and films, which been shown extensively and won numerous awards.

@amak_mahmoodian

amakmahmoodian.com

Issam Larkat is an Algerian photographer who developed his visual language through his love for cinema, capturing a mix of his background with daily experiences of urban life in his country. He considers photography to be a medium to peacefully fight the injustice of the modern world and give a voice to unheard, important causes. Larkat’s work has been exhibited internationally including Photoforum Pasquart, Lagos Photo Festival and Jakarta Intl Photography Festival, and he recently completed a residency in Algiers with JISER.

@issam_larkat

Jenny Lewis is an award-winning artist working across photography whose work is rooted in a profound and intimate relationship to her community in London which she has been part of for 26 years, and includes her celebrated series ‘One Day Young’, ‘Hackney Studios’ and ‘One Hundred Years’. Lewis’ projects have been extensively exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery London, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool and Photo 22 Melbourne as well as a range of permanent public art presentations in community spaces. She has published three monographs with Hoxton Mini Press. Lewis is also a mentor within the photography community, lecturing and running workshops for universities, community projects and art institutions.

@_jennylewis_

jennylewis.net

Máté Bartha is a Budapest-based photographer and documentary filmmaker. In his still and moving image works, Bartha explores the boundaries of documentarism, the borderline between the real and the fictitious, questioning the recognizability of reality and the systematizability of knowledge. In 2014, he published his photobook ‘Common Nature’; awards for his work include the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2019), and Best Student and First Film at the Verzio International Human Rights Film Festival, Budapest (2019). He has participated in international group exhibitions and festivals such as Fotofestiwal, Jimei X Arles, and RAY Photography Triennial as well as several international residencies.

@mate.bartha

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Mohsen Yazdipour is a contemporary visual artist based in Iran who uses elements of photography to create thought-provoking, sequential photo-artworks unified by a common theme of exploration and self-discovery. He believes in the interconnectedness of the self and the environment, which is intricately reflected in his urban photography and portraits. Yazdipour's works have been showcased in national and international Biennales and Festivals; in 2004 he secured First Prize at the Negah Photography Competition and was selected as the 2nd Photographer of the Year at the Iranian Artists’ Forum, both in Tehran. In 2017, Yazdipour was honored with the DAAD Award by The German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin and exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles. He has published two monographs, and his works have been included in several international collections. 

@mohsen.yazdipour

Regine Petersen is an artist and researcher currently living in Hamburg, Germany whose practice is located at the intersection of photography and text. In her work Petersen engages with historical events at the tension of their established and neglected narratives, using a variety of materials—her own photographs, archival imagery, literature—to form new relations. Her work starts with specific and often coincidental findings, which she uses as departure points to gain insight into more universal notions of memory, history, storytelling and representation, while challenging photography as a tool of ideological processes. Petersen’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Foam Museum, Rencontres d’Arles, Photoforum Pasquart and Museum für Fotografie Brunswick. She is a recipient of the Outset/Unseen Exhibition Award, the National Media Museum Bursary, the German Photo Book Award and the Initial Grant of Akademie der Künste.

@regine.petersen 

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Tshepiso Moropa is a visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa who works in photography, collage and film. Inspired by the themes of identity and storytelling, Moropa uses the Baroque art form - a broad phrase that refers to complex features and elaborate sceneries. Her work is often characterised by the use of complicated forms, bold ornamentation, archival imagery and the juxtaposition of contrasting materials to give a feeling of drama, movement and tension. Moropa’s work has been published online and has been part of numerous exhibitions including her first international exhibition at Oakstop Gallery (USA).

@tshepisomoropaa