Hannah Grendel is a photographer based in Greece.
Photography is at the centre of Hannah’s personal practice. She studied photography at Hochschule Düsseldorf in Germany, and she works mostly on analog film, always in series rather than single images. Her practice extends to editing, sequencing and designing photobooks and zines. For her, the way photographs are arranged and placed in conversation with each other is as important as the images themselves.
Her work moves between the quiet and the deeply personal. On one side, she is drawn to the ordinary details most people overlook, such as a still life, an empty street or the corner of a room. On the other, she uses abstract body photography to make visible experiences that usually remain hidden.
Her photobook The Aftermath is about the unseen side of breast cancer. Rather than the familiar images of illness, it explores the emotional pain women go through as their femininity changes, and what it means to be constantly observed and treated in clinical settings, turning from a person into an object. The series shows no faces, only hands, feet, a torso, the back of a head. In this way the viewer connects not with one individual but with the feeling itself, expressed through the body and its language.
Her work has been exhibited as part of The Archive of Trauma, a group exhibition on photography and memory, shown at the Women’s Photo Festival in Athens and the Ostuni Foto Festival in Italy.