PPC/01 - ‘Magical realism’
About the Prints:
The PPC is proud to release its first set of images which comprises of a curated set of images from Diana Patient’s work - ‘Magical Realism’.
Magical Realism is not so much a project as Diana Patient's lifelong search to prove magic is real. As Susan Sontag said 'Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.' Photography seemed like the perfect proof to persuade others that magic exists. A horse shaking its mane like it’s casting a spell or a crow beating its wings past the Taj Mahal, these seconds of connections are the moments Diana has collected from her life. A way of seeing and almost capturing the otherworldly.
Please support Diana and her photography by purchasing a print from our shop.
Open edition - 12 inches on the longest side printed on Enhanced Matte Archival paper at 200 GSM for £95.
Image Titles and Captions:
From top to bottom:
1 - ‘Gypsy Gold’ - Appleby Fair, 2011
2 - ‘The Crow’ - Lake Pichola, Taj Mahal, India 2016.
3 - ‘The Healing Project’ - Margate, 2014
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild with a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. - Yeats
4 - ‘Icelandic Pony’ - Iceland, 2016
Diana Patient
About Diana
Diana studied oral literature and folklore alongside, creative writing before moving from journalism to photography. Diana works with narrative – heavily influenced by her creative writing background. This shows up in her commercial work; her early fashion work (Missoni, Matthew Williamson), her portraits of authors and artists and her work as a unit still photographer (The Souvenir). She founded Too Much of a Person, a story archive where she photographed and interviewed 100 women and non-binary people about what they had been called 'too much' of as a way of asking them to conform to an idea of what a woman 'should be' and is currently working on a multi-media personal project , working title Selkie, which explores generational trauma in narratives we hand down.