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PPH begins a new series: Short Stories or Poems accompanied by photographs.
32-pages
Maria manages her bar in Berlin. Here she meets Sebastian, a real estate agent, and Emma, a foreign girl who arrived in Berlin almost by chance. Maria firstly is a spectator, then advisor and finally a participant in their love encounters. An inebriating trip in the apartments of old Ost Berlin.
Batsceba Hardy, in other words when the poetry of the ordinary becomes extraordinary. And it acquires a golden color, a pastel hue that accompanies us in this story. While the reader forgets about what is happening around him and finds himself as if by magic in the Berlin 'apartment' where this sensual story is set, supported by an intriguing plot
Batsceba Hardy writes stories in images and tells visions in words
I don’t consider myself as an artist, I’d rather consider myself as an artisan. If I should really be forced to come up with a definiton, it’d be “artist of Irreality”. It means that I’m allowed to stay outside, beyond things. Living eternally in the interspaces, those places carved in Space and Time that can be captured on camera or on paper, telling stories. It means having no boundaries nor impositions. In many of my works I tackle the subjects of Invisibility, transparency. Empty and full. Both in a narrative and visual way. Photography and writing are just two different ways to depict all this. That is, Absence. As a matter of fact, I think and state that is completely unnecessary that writers attend the launch of their books, talk about them to a bored or excited audience, or photographers become the main attraction at the opening of their last exhibition. Authors live in their works, don’t they? I don’t like to appear because I exist in what I create, in my writings, in my photographs. I communicate, I show things, I suggest things. I tell things. I confess myself and play with Fiction: because we are what we imagine. Thus I don’t feel compelled to justify my absence, today. I’m not the first nor I’ll be last. But as an author I don’t want to be put on sale, in the consumeristic society we live in.
She realized the Progressive-Street Facebook page, the official website, and the ProgressivE-zine
07/01/2019
Batsceba Hardy is a writer and a photographer, she is the founder of the Progressive-Street group, and the editorial director of our magazines.
Under her real name, she was a professional photographer in the 1970s, and followed avant-garde theater groups and worked for newspapers and magazines.
Later she worked for some Italian publishing houses as a graphic designer, translator and writer. Some of her books have won prestigious awards. This background allowed her to organize Progressive-Street.
For the past 10-years, she has been a street photographer. This occurred at a particular time in her life. She is from Milan yet moved to Berlin, and photography helped her integrate her new life. As an observer, she became keenly interested in the hidden aspects of the city.
At the time she followed various photographers on DeviantArt and learned in the field, becoming a member - and later a leader of two important groups of street photography.
Being interested in photography and art in general - she has a degree in philosophy with a specialization in art criticism - she has always immersed herself in books and photo magazines, knowing the great photographers and have always been interested in new talent.
Later on FB she met two people who helped her make the small group she imported from Deviant much more active ... and so the Gang was born. We don't like the word “collective.”