Gute Aussichten - Young German Photography 2021
Glowing Eyes 2020

GLOWING EYES is about communities living on the banks of the Amazon river in Brasil known as Ribeirinhos. 

Many of these river dwellers are descendants of the indigenous population. Living in their own world they have little exchange with Brazilian society. The Ribeirinhos maintain sustainable economies and make their living from farming manioc, fishing, and collecting Brazil nuts. The laws of nature define their daily routines, their myths and tales, and their view of the world. Their interaction with nature is respectful.
 
In her series Glowing Eyes Sophie Allerding ‚translated’ the Ribeirinhos’ stories that for centuries have been passed on orally into a tableau of universal images. Visually she is clearly referring to the ‚magic realism’ alive in Latin American art, and literature by poets such as Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márques.
 

Sophie Allerding

www.sophieallerding.com
 
© privat Sophie Allerding was born 1993 in Hamburg, Germany. In 2020 she finished her Bachelor studies in communicaTion design at the Hamburg University of AppliEd Sciences. Actually she is in her Master studies at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague in the Netherlands. Sophie Allerding is award winner of GUTE AUSSICHTEN – new german photography 2020/2021. Within that frame her work is actually shown at the Künstlerhaus Dortmund. In May 2021 it will be presented at the State Museum of Rhineland Palatinate in Koblenz, and in October 2021 at the House of Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany.