We created PhotoVogue Festival Echoes to allow those who participated in the event to contribute their voices to the Festival’s narrative. During those days in Milan, we recognised our community’s desire to come together and draw inspiration from each other’s works. We highly value the sharing of experiences and practices, firmly believing that providing dedicated space to each artist can appropriately acknowledge the outstanding projects exhibited in November at the PhotoVogue Festival.
The 14th episode of PhotoVogue Festival Echoes is dedicated to Hayley Lohn who took part in the exhibition ‘What is Beauty?’ at the PhotoVogue Festival 2023. ‘Digital Skins’ is a series of diptychs with two portray of an individual: one is a classic photographic portrait, and the other is a combination of images representing their digital identity, created with an algorithm that analyzed and organized their social media images in a grid, like a skin. Lohn’s work juxtaposes two identities that we often see as separate while they are interconnected and co-dependent. ‘Digital Skins’ is a project dedicated to Millennials and Gen Z, two generations that have always known the internet and are used to the multidimensionality of their own identity. The digital and physical worlds have many points of contact, and their perimeters have become more and more indistinguishable through time and technological advancement. Lohn investigates the impact of technology on the sense of the self, shedding light on our identities beyond the material world.