Alena Shminke ja Mike Rossi “Dialogues”

Inspired by music and photographic art, “Dialogues” is like a visual art jam session, from which a mutually reflective portrait of artists and their states emerges. Shminke’s idea was to explore photography outside of individuality – how individuals interpret photographs when engaging in photographic dialogue on the same principle as musicians do when improvising together. Finding Mike Rossi, a co-artist with a thought, started a picture duel that offered surprises, which turned out to be intriguing in its intimacy and multi-layeredness. By sending photographic images to each other from thousands of miles away, a unique composite portrait of each was opened, which is suitable to spice up the theme year of the Museum of Photography from a perspective different from a classic portrait photo.