Galerie Sophie Scheidecker

Galerie Sophie Scheidecker’s booth for Photo London brings together Justine Tjallinks, Kati Horna, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Flor Garduño, Brian Duffy and Erwin Blumenfeld, weaving a dialogue around a shared theme, Silent Realities : Between Dreams, Memory, and Identity. Far from documentary realism, their works immerse us in silent realities — spaces between the visible and the invisible, the personal and the collective. Each photograph becomes a fragment of an inner narrative, an open-ended enigma, a breath of poetry. Justine Tjallinks creates timeless portraits, blending classical Flemish influences with a celebration of individuality. Kati Horna, a key figure in surrealist photography, turned the medium into an act of resistance and reinvention. Yasuhiro Ogawa, with a contemplative approach, captures ephemeral scenes of Japan — shadows, mist, and solitude — evoking a suspended world where past and present intertwine in subtle melancholy. Flor Garduño anchors her black-and-white work in myth, ritual, and nature, celebrating the symbolic power of the feminine and the animal world through formally intense compositions. Rather than a simple presentation of individual works, the booth offers a sensitive journey, an emotional and aesthetic cartography. Across borders of time and geography, the images resonate with one another, balancing tenderness and gravity, contemplation and subversion. In dialogue with these contemporary photographs, the booth also presents iconic works by Erwin Blumenfeld and Brian Duffy — two major figures who, each in their own way, redefined fashion and portrait photography through bold innovation and graphic mastery. “Silent Realities” is an invitation to look differently, to slow down, to listen to what images whisper — a call to enter inner worlds that strangely mirror our own.