Sheltering Ballad - Sabīne Zoltnere
€35.00
First Edition of 300, 2024
Printed in Italy
Hardcover, 128 pages
Sheltering Ballad is an exploration of the author’s journey through grief following the loss of her father. The book presents a series of black-and-white photographs - still life, self-portraits, and images of nature - that serve as gateways into the author’s inmost experiences, vague memories, and shifting landscape of her emotional world. It’s a journal of her voyage through suffering in the search of peace and acceptance.
The visual narrative is complemented by written interventions by Bogdan Licar, whose meditative reflections open a parallel pathway, probing themes of memory, death, and search for meaning. His words, like the photographs, are marked by a profound sensitivity and awareness of the fragility of life.
Sheltering Ballad is a sanctuary of longing, desperation, sadness and love.
Photographs: Sabine Zoltnere
This Edition: Replika Publishing
Words: Bogdan Licar and Sabine Zoltnere
Editing: Youvalle Levy and Sabine Zoltnere
Design: Laura Klimaite-Lusa and Sabine Zoltnere