I had a look at Justine Kurland's work today and loved it. Her images are of young, adolescent girls involved in mysterious and ambiguous narratives. Although the photographs are often set in beautiful lanscapes, each image has a dark and sinister undertone. The viewer is unsure whether the bodies that lie sprawled across the landscape are dead or just involved in a childhood game. Kurland's work reminds me very much of the film Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), in which a group of girls mysteriously go missing on a school trip to the countryside (see images below).
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975):
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