from the other side

POSTED IN Shameless Self Promotion, Snap! 12.05.2010

Just got sent copies of reviews for the Winterreise at Sydney Festival 2010. I am very happy – indeed!

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“…a landscape given added representation through the austere wintery stillness of Helga Kvam’s projected photos…”

Peter McCallum- Sydney Morning Herald

“…Each one of them was supplemented by a huge projected image underscoring its meaning. All were stark and wintry, cumulatively a tribute to the artistic sensitivity of photographer Helga Kvam…”

David Gyger – North Shore Times

“… Helga Kvam’s photographic accompaniment to the cycle gives atmospheric clues – ice-floes, frozen wilderness, weathered and deserted rustic huts, a dead leaf, a raven, a grave – and marks the progression from song to song. Kvam’s images of impervious beauty, projected on a large screen behind the performers, echo the songs’ Romanticism of solitude. The landscapes – smothered in snow, dressed in ice- are a seductive vision of dormant life…”

Nick Terrell – M/C Reviews