Border Stories
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A photographic and participatory portrait of the twin border towns Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia), European Capital of Culture 2025. Frolova weaves portraits, interiors and urban landscapes with first-person testimonies about memory, identity and everyday crossings. Residents were invited to “draw the border as they feel it”; those sketches were redrawn by illustrator Mariia (Masha) Korytova and sequenced with the photographs, creating an “invisible cartography of feeling” that maps physical, mental and political lines—sometimes open, sometimes policed, often blurred. Guided during development by Denis Curti, the project becomes a choral, intimate study of separation and connection.
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Type/format: Photobook.
Series: Patricia D. Richards Legacy Awards, vol. 01 (URBAN Photo Awards).
Author/photography: Ekaterina Frolova.
Illustrations: Mariia (Masha) Korytova, based on participant drawings.
Texts & mentorship: Essay/intro by Denis Curti; message from Friends & Family of Patricia D. Richards; project developed as an award fellowship under Curti’s guidance.
Award: Inaugural recipient of the Patricia D. Richards Legacy Award (URBAN Photo Awards 2024).
Publisher / Imprint: Exhibit Around APS (Trieste, Italy); within URBAN Photo Awards / Trieste Photo Days; promoted by dotART.
Publication date / print: October 2025.
Language: English.
Pages: 98.
ISBN (EAN-13): 979-12-8129-328-1
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A photographic and participatory portrait of the twin border towns Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia), European Capital of Culture 2025. Frolova weaves portraits, interiors and urban landscapes with first-person testimonies about memory, identity and everyday crossings. Residents were invited to “draw the border as they feel it”; those sketches were redrawn by illustrator Mariia (Masha) Korytova and sequenced with the photographs, creating an “invisible cartography of feeling” that maps physical, mental and political lines—sometimes open, sometimes policed, often blurred. Guided during development by Denis Curti, the project becomes a choral, intimate study of separation and connection.