Photographic Parallels Between Wilderness and Womanhood

There are dark, magical forces at play in Sweden-born, New York-based artist Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s photographic work, swirling through the developing fluid and peeking out in the rosy hues of her atmospheric images. The photographer specialises in blurring the boundaries between the mundane and the utterly abstract, so that her shots of relatively commonplace scenes – a meadow full of flowers, for example, or a group of hikers clambering up a hill – appear to transcend…