Irina Rozovsky Book Launch & Conversation with Gregory Harris
Join us on Saturday, September 12, for an exciting conversation between photographer Irina Rozovsky and curator Gregory Harris to celebrate the publication of Rozovsky's Mountain Black Heart.
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About Mountain Black Heart
One morning in the summer of 2014, Irina Rozovsky woke up in a Serbian mountain village to the sound of hundreds of trumpets as a brass band festival set up in the hills. At once pleading and tragic, joyful and frenetic, the music set the tone for what would become Rozovsky’s journey through the Balkan region, including Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. Profoundly drawn to the land and its people, Rozovsky created the intimate and equivocal photographs that form Mountain Black Heart. Rozovsky’s borderless vision drifts through railways, farms, open water, parking lots, fairgrounds, and graveyards, balancing vitality and life with suggestions of dark history and subtle signs of violence. Interspersed throughout are striking portraits of people and animals which emanate vulnerability and resilience. Through its loose, expressionistic approach and a compassionate engagement with the human and natural world, Rozovsky’s nomadic project pieces together a personal and kaleidoscopic view of a fragmented place.
Pre-order Irina Rozovsky's Mountain Black Heart from Lostintheletters here.
About Irina Rozovsky
IRINA ROZOVSKY (b. 1981, Moscow) is a photographer based in Paris, France and Athens, Georgia, USA. Her solo shows have included ‘Turn the Sun’ at Tureen, Dallas (2024), and ‘Traditions Highway’ at CPM Gallery, Baltimore (2022). Her work has featured in group exhibitions including ‘A Long Arc’, Virginia Museum of Fine Art (2024) and ‘Companion Pieces: New Photography’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020). Previous publications include One to Nothing (2011), Island in My Mind (2015), and In Plain Air (2021). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Philadelphia Museum of Art, and more.
About Gregory Harris
Gregory Harris is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography at High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He is a specialist in contemporary photography with a particular interest in documentary practice. Since joining the High in 2016, Harris has curated over two dozen exhibitions that consider an array of topics, including notions of truth in contemporary photography, the intersections of photography and self-taught art, and distinct history of photography in the American South. His recent publications include Mimi Plumb: Blazing Light (Radius Books, 2026), A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 (Aperture, 2023), Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City (High Museum of Art and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2023), and Walks to the Paradise Garden (Institute 193, 2018), and he has contributed essays to monographs by Mark Steinmetz, Amy Elkins, Matthew Brandt, and Paul D'Amato. Harris was previously the Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and also held curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Pre-order Irina Rozovsky's Mountain Black Heart from Lostintheletters here.