HIDDEN FOREST
2021 - Ongoing

Videos are installed as large wall projections in a dark space or on a monitor.

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” Mary Oliver

”Panas’ portraits are about relationships. Always, there is the core relationship between herself and the individual
in front of the camera. She speaks about falling in love with her subjects. She doesn’t take a picture. She embraces a person.
The people she photographs gain a new existence in that moment of transformation from flesh to photograph. What an
honor and what a gift when Panas transforms her model into a work of art. Like all great portraitists, she
does not flatter, she probes. Her pictures are often disquieting.” Gail Buckland, Photo Historian

Link to Accompanying Photographs
http://www.lydiapanas.com/waking-the-hidden-forest-ii

Sonae (sample)
5:44 Minute Loop

Mandy (sample)
7:43 Minute Loop

Ella and Ava (sample)
3:49 Minute Loop

Snow (sample)
4:55 Minute Loop

Jaysa (sample)
8:52 Minute Loop

Fiona (sample)
2:36 Minute Loop

Nina (sample)
1:55 Minute Loop

Meaghan (sample)
6:52 Minute Loop