Ivo Sekulovski / Down the Jade Mountain forthcoming Simoens wrote down Alfons’s stories

Simoens wrote down Alfons’s stories and photographed him during his visits

a non-hierarchal set up that invites the viewer to link the images freely

beauty is not a fixed idea but a performance

All palm trees look alike

Ivo Sekulovski / Down the Jade Mountain forthcoming Simoens wrote down Alfons’s storiesDown the Jade Mountain is a concise exploration of identity crises across person, artist, family, country, and photography itself. Ivo Sekulovski, living in Italy and wrestling with belonging, embarks on a project in his hometown Ohrid, North Macedonia. The book reads like a series of visual riddles, every page bustling with hints and symbols; some universally readable, some deeply and irredeemably personal. In it, Ivo explores and dissects his family