IRL Stories is an editorial series portraying the artistic development of talents whose work holds space for a live audience. Started in 2020, it is an intimate look into the life of performing artists who are using alternative means to keep creating and connecting to others in these times of radical change. Each story is a personal essay with an artist interview and a visual narrative photographed on medium format.
The series portrays artists and artworks of Ghetthoven, Thea Reifler, Philipp Bergmann, Laure M. Hiendl, Göksu Kunak, Djibril Sall, Alvin Collantes, Asli Hatipoglu among others. The stories have been featured online in Umbigo magazine (PT), KALTBLUT magazine (DE) and in Midnite Snack magazine (US) in print.
IRL Stories is an ode to in-real-life experiences that potentiate a sense of connection and belonging. While a new online age is growing depicting utopian worlds, artificial intelligence and cyber communities, IRL Stories aims to reclaim the essence of on-site, tangible and analogue relationships. It’s in this realm that we creatives process thoughts, develop ideas and share them in the first place. It’s the starting point of anything that generates culture and it’s what happens in this time and space that IRL Stories aims to capture.
