KIRSTEN HOVING

(Photo credit: Kirsten Hoving, Earth’s Atmosphere from the series Night Wanderers)

Kirsten Hoving typifies her photographic work as “strange and sometimes wonderful.” Hoving’s Night Wanderers series – in which she examines frozen worlds of her own devising – is imbued with both.

She writes:

Night Wanderers is a series of photographs envisioning the cosmos. I photograph objects and nineteenth-century photographs frozen in or placed under disks of ice to create the feeling of galactic swirls of stars, galaxies and spiral nebulae.

For this series, I have been influenced not by the work of other photographers, but by the collage and assemblage art of the American artist Joseph Cornell… His working method encouraged me to take risks, to experiment, and to be willing to destroy one object to create another. He also taught me to appreciate the stars.

Check out more of Kirsten’s work and the rest of the Night Wanderers series at www.kirstenhovingphotographs.com