Sabīne Zoltnere - Sheltering Ballad

Replika Publishing 2024

Sheltering Ballad is an exploration of the author’s journey through grief following the loss of her father. The book presents a series of black-and-white photographs - still life, self-portraits, and images of nature - that serve as gateways into the author’s inmost experiences, vague memories, and shifting landscape of her emotional world. It’s a journal of her voyage through suffering in the search of peace and acceptance.

The visual narrative is complemented by written interventions by Bogdan Licar, whose meditative reflections open a parallel pathway, probing themes of memory, death, and search for meaning. His words, like the photographs, are marked by a profound sensitivity and awareness of the fragility of life.

Sheltering Ballad is a sanctuary of longing, desperation, sadness and love.

Photographs: Sabine Zoltnere
This Edition: Replika Publishing
Words: Bogdan Licar and Sabine Zoltnere
Editing: Youvalle Levy and Sabine Zoltnere
Design: Laura Klimaite-Lusa and Sabine Zoltnere
First Edition of 300
Printed in Italy on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum White 120 g paper
128 pages, hardcover