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Project Description

Continental Bounce is a collection of photographs taken during Magda Biernat’s recent one year, around the world journey. Together with her husband Ian, she traveled across three continents, Africa, Asia and Oceania visiting a cross section of diverse cultures. Throughout the journey she pointed her camera towards unusual architectural forms such as “transplanted” German colonial houses in Namibia or concrete utopian pod village on the northeast coast of Taiwan. In this selection of photographs, Biernat has found common patterns that emerge in the variety of textural landscapes through which they traveled. She explores beyond the famous icons in tourist brochures into the homes and lives of the people whom they met and were befriended by on their journey. Many photos come from unique opportunities to visit areas not usually accessible to tourists; guided by locals in the township of Khayelitsha, hosted by a Maasai family in Kenya’s rift valley and as a guest of Tibetan refugees in Boudhanath, Nepal. Invitations such as these provided Biernat an invaluable chance to illuminate the lesser seen corners of the world. What emerges is a quiet and often intimate reflection of the similarities of lives and landscape around the world.