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Simen Johan: Wilderness stories

Simen Johan: Wilderness stories

Scandinavian photographer Simen Johan’s latest series, Conspiracy of Ravens, is on view at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, which has represented him and supported his work for almost twenty years. Simen Johan creates baroque fictions populated by animals and wild, picturesque settings. On this occasion, Johan’s world has become darker and more unsettling as human presence, although absent from these photographs, seems to paradoxically lurk in the background.

Untitled #203, 2019 © Simen Johan, Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York 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 ...

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