Photographer Talk: Loli Kantor

Join us for aphotographer talk centered around Call Me Lola. In Search of Mother by Loli Kantor.

CALL ME LOLA. IN SEARCH OF MOTHER.

BY LOLI KANTOR

Publisher Hatje Cantz, November 2024

For over 20 years, Kantor has been excavating the family archives assembled by her Polish-born father, a doctor and political activist. Her mother Lola – who died after giving birth to her and who bears the same name as Kantor – lies at the heart of the project: a woman manifested through images and stories rather than direct memory. Deeply personal, the project speaks to the wider upheavals of the 20th century: war and displacement, love and loss, trauma and bereavement. More than 150 images – archival family photographs, wartime and postwar documents, objects belonging to Kantor’s mother, and her own newly created photographs – feature alongside an essay on photography and memory by photographic historian and curator Dr Nissan Perez, an interview with the artist by her curator daughter, and a selection of insightful annotations by Kantor herself.

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