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Built from memory, myth and matter

conceptual photography by Julietta Pessotšinskaja

I am a conceptual photographer
currently studying Photography
at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, working across both analog and digital mediums.

My practice explores memory, exile, identity, ritual
and the relationship between the human body
and the landscapes it inhabits.

Drawing from the history of art, literature,
philosophy and visual theory,
my work is driven by an ongoing fascination with the psychology of perception
and the ways different cultures, histories
and societies shape how we see, remember
and assign meaning.
 

I was fortunate enough to be born twice.
After surviving a terror attack,
I lived for years with a trauma
that profoundly altered my relationship with smell.

The rediscovery of scent & fragrance
became the foundation of a new visual language through conceptual fragrance photography,
a journey that ultimately led me to continue
my artistic practice through formal studies.
 

Today,
I use both analog and digital photography
to investigate what cannot be photographed directly:
memory, displacement, transformation
and the invisible psychological forces
that shape our perception of ourselves and the world.
 

I hope these photographs invite you to slow down,
look a little longer and perhaps leave with more questions than answers.

I am a conceptual photographer  currently studying Photography
at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem,
working across both analog and digital mediums.

My practice explores memory, exile, identity, ritual
and the relationship between the human body and the landscapes it inhabits.

Drawing from the history of art, literature, philosophy and visual theory,
my work is driven by an ongoing fascination
with the psychology of perception
and the ways different cultures, histories
and societies shape how we see, remember and assign meaning.
 

I was fortunate enough to be born twice.
After surviving a terror attack,
I lived for years with a trauma that profoundly altered
my relationship with smell.

The rediscovery of scent & fragrance
became the foundation of a new visual language through
conceptual fragrance photography, a journey that ultimately led me
to continue my artistic practice through formal studies.
 

Today,
I use both analog and digital photography
to investigate what cannot be photographed directly:
memory, displacement, transformation
and the invisible psychological forces that shape our perception of ourselves and the world.
 

I hope these photographs invite you to slow down,
look a little longer and perhaps leave with more questions than answers.

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