Find Me Paradise || KEHRER Verlag 2026
400 Pages, 290 duotone illustrations
Texts Simon Bainbridge, Benita Suchodrev
Website Kehrer Verlag
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»Find Me Paradise is an Orwellian film, a journey to the outermost reaches (…) carrying a profound fire that unsettles bourgeois conformity (…) A Shakespearean atmosphere of the end of a reign or a civilization«
– Fabien Ribéry, writer, critic, L’intervalle
»The book is a danse macabre, a fever dream, a cold withdrawal, a photographic memorandum, woven from ecstasy and routine, human follies and triumphs.«
– Peter Truschner, writer and photography critic, Perlentaucher – Das Kulturmagazin
»A remarkable, epic undertaking that reveals a world both alluring and terrifying. An instant classic.«
– Christopher Phillips, Curator, Professor, and former Chief Curator of the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York
»Her books function like novels. One does not flip through the images — one reads them.«
– Melody Gygax, Photo Editor, Curator, MAGNUM PHOTOS
»A photographic stream of consciousness that explores belonging and longing for something bigger than ourselves.«
– Simon Bainbridge, Editorial Director, British Journal of Photography
»Like a dream, there’s a certain madness and magic to it all: the neurotic flicker of neon lights, the dissolution of the self in a trance to a sinister beat or acting out bliss with a stranger on a shabby couch in a smoke-filled room. Beneath the party facade, these moments speak to a deeper part of the human condition: the endless longing to feel physically and spiritually free.«
– Benita Suchodrev
»Intoxicating and authentic, Suchodrev’s narratives could be a daydream-like film told through stills, as in Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story or the work of Jim Jarmusch.«
– Matthias Harder, Director, Helmut Newton Foundation
»A complex pictorial-psychological investigation into a disenchanted reality and the nature of being,reminiscent of the cinema of Federico Fellini and the black-and-white English films of 1960s’ social realism.«
– Mark Gisbourne, Art historian, Critic, Curator
»Seaside resorts are normally places of rest and contemplation; in 48 Hours Blackpool Benita Suchodrev shows us something very different. In the chaos laid bare by the rough winds of Breixt England, everyone and everything are strirred up by the storm. Benita Suchodrev’s camera is the eye of the hurricane.«
– Michael Biedowicz, Photo Editor, DIE ZEIT
Signed copies of 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL (out of print) may be purchased directly from the artist via mail@benitasuchodrev.com