Talking Frames
18 - Alys Tomlinson on Tradition, Identity and Portrait Photography
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Alys Tomlinson is a British photographer renowned for her evocative black-and-white imagery. Her acclaimed series Ex-Voto explored Christian pilgrimage sites in France, Ireland, and Poland, documenting the intimate rituals and offerings of pilgrims. Among these portraits, one of the most striking was of Mother Vera, a young nun at Grabarka, Poland. This photograph became central to Alys’s work,…