Jenia Fridlyand, Cuba, 2018
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In May 2025, the Mulhouse Photography Biennial welcomes American photographer Jenia Fridlyand for a residency exploring the potash mining region and its inhabitants. In preparation for the 2026 edition of the festival, entitled Sedimentation(s), the photographer will consider the area in terms of its mining history and the migratory flows it has produced. With its local roots historically linked to potash mining, the Polish diaspora is one of the research focuses of this residency.
Jenia Fridlyand (Moscow, 1975) is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Fridlyand’s artist’s book Entrance to Our Valley was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2017, and the trade edition (TIS Books) is now in its 3rd printing. Her subsequent body of work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Fototeca de Cuba in Havana in 2023. She is represented by Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam. Fridlyand is a co-founder of Image Threads, a non-profit educational collective, and is the chair of the Long Term Photobook Program at Penumbra Foundation in New York. She studied photography at Centre Iris and Université Paris VIII, and holds an MFA from the University of Hartford’s International Limited-Residency program.
Jenia Fridlyand, Cuba, 2018