Irina Rozovsky was born in Moscow, Russia, and grew up in the USA, having moved there with her parents at the age of seven. Irina makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She has published two monographs, One to Nothing (2011) and Island in my Mind (2015). Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harpers, and Vice. Irina lives and works in Athens, Georgia where she and her husband, photographer Mark Steinmetz, run the photography project space The Humid. Irina is represented by Claxton Projects.
On episode 108, Irina discusses, among other things:
- Shooting with the iPhone
- Early memories of Russia
- Discovering photography in high school
- Visiting Israel : One to Nothing
- Serendipity: a “dance with chance”
- Cuba: Island in my Mind
- Her ongoing Balkan project Mountain Black Heart
- The Humid, her photography project space.
- Living in Georgia, USA, and Impressions of the south.
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“I think it’s really good to be lost because then you teach yourself to - I dunno - like, crawl out somehow. And if you’re never lost then you’re kind of just always in this neutral grey town.”