"I’ve been thinking about what comes before and after, about repetition and the potential of abstraction. Certain themes emerge — irrationality, theatricality, and the ways we play with identity. It’s multi–layered and interspersed." Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Martina Hoogland Ivanow is an artist working primarily with photography and film, exploring the interplay between filtered light, sound and image. After an acclaimed early career as an international photographer in New York, Paris and London, she established her art practice in Stockholm in 2002, where she continues to live and work.
Shadow Works, Living the Dream, published by Livraison Books in 2025, presents a newly edited selection spanning thirty years of photography. The book includes images from her series Speedway (2002 - 2005), Far Too Close (2002 – 2007), Elephant and Castle (2009), Satellite (2009 – 2010), Circular Wait (2010 - 2014), Early Reading (2016 – 2018), Re-enactment (2016 - 2019) and Second Nature (2019 – 2024). It also features fashion editorial work from 1994 to the early 2000s, originally published in Dazed & Confused, 10 Magazine, The Face and Another.
