Persephone - Sort - In the Deepness of Persephone

Sort was created with writer and composer Michael R. Koswil as a work combining photography, poetry and music. Inspired by the myth of Persephone, the project follows her transformation from Kore to queen of the underworld and finally to a captive longing for daylight. Working with the model Manya, each group of photographs explored a different stage of that journey. Maurel's poems and Koswil's score were developed alongside the images, each medium extending the others. The work can be experienced horizontally or vertically, like a scroll, allowing image, text and music to accompany Persephone's gradual descent through the underworld.

Developed within the Unclearpicture collaboration with writer Michel Maurel.

Black-and-white portrait of a woman facing the camera, dark wet strands framing her intense gaze.
A woman wrapped in dark fabric looks downward while gripping its edge in a black-and-white portrait.
Close black-and-white portrait of a woman with long damp hair falling around her lowered face.
A woman’s face is concealed behind a curtain of long dark strands against a black background.
A woman presses both hands to her chest and looks upward in stark black-and-white light.
Profile of a nude woman looking down against a black background, her hair falling over one shoulder.
A woman turns away and glances over her shoulder while gathering long dark strands in one hand.
A crouching nude figure bends forward and embraces herself beneath falling dark strands.
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