Magda Biernat
Originally from Poland and currently based in NYC and Paris, Magda Biernat is a contemporary art photographer whose work deals with the concepts of home, belonging, in-betweenness and cultural identity. With the support of the Film Photo Award grant, Biernat will begin working on a new project, In A Tidal Delta, which will explore notions of borders and hybrid identity through the medium of salt printing. Taking photographs with a large format camera around the important river estuaries and deltas, she intends to use the varying levels of salinity sampled from the brackish transition between river and sea to make her final prints. The expected results, a gradual clarity of image as the solution reaches optimal percentages of salinity, will be a metaphor for transitional identities that span political borders and the binary concept of nationalism. As Biernat says, “We are all increasingly less river or sea than we are tidal delta.”
