Honorable Mention
Innerland
DESCRIPTION
Innerlandby Synchrodogs
“Existence is not a concept; it’s indescribable.
It is not defined, it is felt.”
Innerland is an ongoing series of portraits picturing artists from around the world - those who dare looking into their own souls and connecting with deepest parts of their psyche.
Depicting a statement that human is more than what we see with our eyes, the project aims to discover an endless world that is held inside, rather than outer facade. Having to spend most of our lives there, in our subconscious, in our deepest thoughts or night dreams, Synchrodogs reflect on the paradox of how connected or disconnected from nature every person is (while in fact human being is part of nature itself).
Shying away from the more classical definition of portrait, human beings are shown as such having no definite borders, and no rational shape. They are continuation of the environment itself, as the environment forms them a lot, and vice versa - they form the environment.
AUTHOR
Synchrodogs is a duo of photographers and art directors from Ukraine - Tania Shcheglova (b.1989) and Roman Noven (b.1984) working together since 2008.Tania graduated from Information technology department of Ivano-Frankivsk national technical university of oil and gas in 2011, Roman graduated from Lutsk National Technical University in 2006. Both photographers are self-taught, currently residing in Ukraine.
Their artworks were published in many magazines like Esquire, Numero, The Wall Street Journal, Purple Fashion, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, L’Officiel, Odda, Liberation magazine, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Vice, Metal, TUSH, Dust, Vision, Another, Oyster, Duel, Jalouse, shot Femen activists for Dazed and Confused, published on the covers of British Journal of Photography (UK), Vogue (Ukraine), Stylist (France), Impression (USA), TUSH, Neon, Zeit Campus magazine (Germany), S magazine, shot Mark Zuckerberg for Afisha magazine cover (Russia) etc.
In 2013 Synchrodogs published their first big monograph called Byzantine with Norwegian publisher Editions du Lic.
In 2020 Synchrodogs’ second book Fashion Eye of Ukraine was published by Louis Vuitton.
