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Hannah Modigh

    The Milky Way
    • Location:
      Stockholm, Sweden
    • Gallery Representation:
      Galleri Kontrast
      Gallery Kontrast
    • Schools Attended:
      Fatamorgana Photo School, Copenhagen, Denmark 2002-2003. Nordic School of Photography, Photo Journalism, Biskops Arnö, Sweden 2004 – 2007 Royal Institute of art, Stockholm 2012-2013
    About Hannah Modigh

    Hannah Modigh was born in Stockholm but spent big parts of her childhood in India and on Österlen in the south of Sweden. During her adult life, she lived in Paris and Copenhagen and is now living and working in Stockholm.

    Some of the places she has exhibited:

    Group Exhibitions
    VIE, fealledsparken, Copenhagen, Denmark
    EPEA House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
    Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
    Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Italy
    Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
    FotoDoks Festival, Munich Germany
    Philanthropy House, Brussels, Belgien
    Höstsalongen Fotografiska Stockholm, Sweden

    Festival "Cuore di Ghiaccio", Bologna, Italy

    Solo
    TTC Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, Sweden
    Färgfabriken The Colour Factory, Sweden
    Konstlustans Galleri CSK, Kristianstad, Sweden
    Gallery Format Malmö, Sweden

    Grants and Awards
    Hillbilly heroin, honey, Photo book of the year, Sweden, 2010
    European Photo Exhibition Award, 2011
    Arbetets Museums pris för bildverksamhet med dokumentär inriktning, 2011
    Authors fund 2012, 2014
    Längmanska stiftelsen 2012
    Kavalla residency, SFF 2013
    Winner of TT Big Photo Award, 2013

    Featured on LensCulture
    • The Milky Way
      Hannah Modigh
      The time between adolescence and adulthood is fraught with mercurial shifts in mood, awkward bodies, and charged interactions—”a crucial time in our lives that we can never get back.”
    • Hillbilly heroin, honey
      Hannah Modigh
      Rural Appalachia is known for its poverty and social problems—instead, these still, atmospheric photographs focus on the locals’ unique bind to their fading community. In the photographer’s words, “The crack in the soul is more important than the one on the wall.”
    • Hurricane Season
      Hannah Modigh
      Soft and beautiful from a distance, but uneasy upon closer inspection—each of these photos, made on the streets of New Orleans, tells a story in which the surface tensions are just about ready to burst.
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