Simen Johan: Wilderness Stories

Simen Johan creates baroque fictions populated by animals and wild, picturesque settings. With an exhibition at Yossi Milo gallery in New York, his world became darker and more unsettling as human presence, although absent from these photographs, seems to paradoxically lurk in the background.

Conspiracy of Ravens plunges us into a fantastic universe populated by animals placed at the center of the composition like characters or totems haunting luxuriant or desolate wilderness. In these large-format images greens and blues dominate, a...

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