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Awarded with the German Photo Book Prize 23/24
The photo book »A Second Beating Heart« by Rabea Edel was awarded the silver medal at the German Photo Book Award 23/24.
About the book
A Second Beating Heart
Rabea Edel
Author: Rabea Edel
Design: Christine Lange
Edit: Gillian Henn
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»A Second Beating Heart« tells the story of Martha, a newborn mother, using documentary and autofictional strategies. A few days after giving birth to her first child, Martha no longer leaves the house. What begins insidiously becomes a new reality. For almost three years the house becomes a shelter, a prison and a cocoon at the same time.
What many people experience in the first two years of motherhood as a compulsion or an external necessity, the isolation at home becomes a vital strategy for Martha: Inner spaces become outer spaces and vice versa.
What begins insidiously becomes a new reality. For almost three years the house becomes a shelter, a prison and a cocoon at the same time.
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Milk glass, ©Rabea Edel
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»Rabea Edel’s autofictional photo series about motherhood with its bright and often concealed dark sides is an atypical but very successful variation of Ostkreuz documentary. (…) The view of the world outside, which seems infinitely far away in moments of depression, becomes doubly tangible.«
Birgit Rieger, Tagesspiegel
A Second Beating Heart
Rabea Edel
35€
Hardcover with linen and embossing
German/English
With an essay by Rabea Edel
Rabea Edel spent over three years re-staging the story on which the book is based with herself and found images to depict the light and dark sides of motherhood, giving it the representation it needs and deserves.
Rabea Edel
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