Sheltering Ballad

Since my father suddenly passed away more than twenty years ago, there hasn’t been a day of my life without thinking of him and missing him. There is no other person or thing in this entire world I would have thought about or felt for as deeply. It’s like this yearning has become a fundamental part of my being. With this work, I wanted to give my feelings of longing, desperation, sadness, and love a sanctuary to live beyond myself.

Sabine Zoltnere (1992) is a visual artist based in Berlin, working primarily with photography. She holds an MFA from the Art Academy of Latvia’s Printmaking Department and studied at the Florence Fine Art Academy. She has also undertaken studies with Latvian photographer Andrejs Grants, and in Berlin, continued her photographic education at the Ostkreuz School of Photography under Sibylle Fendt. Last year, this project was released as a photobook, and in June, it was exhibited at the Look! gallery in Riga.