Flânerie is the title of the exhibition Jill Hartley which is open until September 8, 2024 in the s.l.m.00 (zero zero sul livello del mare) Gallery in Pescara, Italy, as part of the eleventh edition of the event: Stills of Peace and Everyday Life, sponsored by the Aria cultural foundation, Abruzzo.
“For thirty years, I photographed with a Leica armed with TriX film, all around the world but especially in Poland, Mexico and Cuba, each of which became the subject of a book. This is the first time that a selection of my work is exhibited with the places mixed together, perhaps the beginning of a retrospective.” – Jill Hartley
The curator Paolo Dell’elce writes in the catalog:
“I met Jill Hartley at the turn of the last century. I came across one of her books, Poland (Éditions Créaphis), which touched me deeply. I met her in person shortly thereafter. In 1999, I had the pleasure of presenting her with an award and writing an article about her for a photography magazine.
[…] I appreciated the human qualities in Jill that I have rarely found in other photographers: the elegant simplicity, the lightness and the knack of never being intrusive. Walking slowly is the ideal way to experience the spiritual dimension of a place […] in its most mysterious and relevant connotations.
Jill Hartley began her long walk in the company of her camera along the streets of an exasperated Poland which, at the end of the Seventies, was preparing for the great internal social and political upheaval which had repercussions on the whole of Europe heralding the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union.”
