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Monika K. Adler

Monika K. Adler is photographer and film director known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films. Her works have shown in hundreds of film festivals, art museums and galleries worldwide. Adler is a finalist of the British Auction House Christie’s First Open, 2015. In 2018 she was nominated to a Hundred Heroines – The Royal Photographic Society's Award. She is currently working on the feature film SICK BACCHUS.
  • Seven Sisters, the English Channel. We stand on the beach-head, the sky darkening, suspended in a container of fog…

  • Double Vision

    The availability and cheapness of travel have diminished its meaning. Crowds of people mindlessly move from one place to another, thinking only of what they will eat, where to stay overnight, and what photos they’ll post on social media. Does the automated, parasocial competitiveness of travel take away its depth?…

  • We follow a girl, early twenties, up a station platform; her blonde hair plaited, ringed by a garland of flowers.

  • In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for the benefit of tourists. Around them, despite a catastrophic collapse of society, the structures of embedded establishment persist; white stone edifices impervious to the re-ordering of reality. In our present,…

  • Our beloved dog, Misza, passed away on November 14, 2023. The same day, in 1905, that Rasputin first met Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and changed the destiny of Europe forever. She was with us for nearly fourteen years. Portrait of Misza, 2023, Hafren Forest, Llanidloes, Wales Our sadness and…

  • “Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Portrait of Violetta Bacchus, St. James, London, 21 March 2024 Our wounds are invisible. They devour and lay…

  • Photography exhibition ‘Patriarchal Sabbath’ by Monika K. Adler is a part of an online programme of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2023 in New Zealand. Patriarchal Sabbath is an allegory of resistance against gender inequality. Women must unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order.” Contemporary, atheistic, consumer societies are, at…

  • The story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only the most precious and essential.

  • Vistula Bank near Płock. Poland Road Trip is always an adventure, especially when you travel alone. Freedom and independence in a world full of multiple dependencies is great. Travel gives distance. Detachment from the problems that we build for ourselves from the surrounding reality. We become observers. We do not…

  • These photographs are the first in new series which looks at what lies on the periphery, between the realm of our cognition and the ineffable.

  • The photography essay ‘The Truth’ is a reflection on life in quarantine in London and subtle encounters with death during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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