The BABCPHL was proud to promote Dafna Talmor, a London-based artist’s Philadelphia show – her first in the US, and to showcase the Halide Project.

Dafna Talmor is a London-based artist and lecturer whose work focuses on photography, sculpture, spatial interventions and collaborative projects. Her ongoing series, Constructed Landscapes, transforms everyday snapshots of landscapes into abstracted, contemplative spaces that challenge how we experience and interpret landscape photography. Talmor’s photographs are held in collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Deutsche Bank, and her work has been featured in major publications and international exhibitions.

The show Fractured Lands at The Halide Project explores destruction and reconstruction through the photography of Ella Morton and Dafna Talmor. Presented in conjunction with the 20/20 Photo Festival, Fractured Lands brings together the work of artists Ella Morton and Dafna Talmor in an evocative two-person exhibition at The Halide Project. This exhibition is part of The Halide Project’s ongoing commitment to analog and historic process photography and coincides with this year’s 20/20 Photo Festival theme of “structures.” The show opens with a public reception on Friday, September 5, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm and runs through Sunday, October 19, 2025.

Curated by Dale Rio, Fractured Lands examines how photographic destruction becomes a generative act. Both artists begin with analog images of landscapes and then physically intervene in their materials to reconstruct new images that challenge traditional notions of landscape photography. Talmor slices and reassembles her “failed” negatives into complex composite images, transforming discarded material into a master negative and interrogating the assumptions and colonial histories embedded in landscape photography.

The Halide Project is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the continued practice and appreciation of film and historic process photography. Based in the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, The Halide Project serves the local and global photography communities through exhibitions, educational programming (both in-person and virtual), collaborations with other organizations, and – most recently – our new community darkroom, which has a gang B&W darkroom, film processing area, and a dim room for alternative/historic process work. We invite you to view the mentioned programming, and the work of the collective, on the Halide Project website linked here.

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