Polly Hummel, born in 1975 in the GDR, is a photographer and artist. She has lived and worked in Porto, Portugal, for 16 years. In 2020, she graduated from the Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem (IPCI) with a Master's degree in Artistic Photography. Since then she has been working on various photographic projects.
Her pictures often tell part of a story, everything is a little eerie, inconsistent, without a sense of place and time. There are staged moments in which she steps out of reality as well as everyday life. Polly prefers the honesty of analogue photographs, in black and white or colour. Themes are interwoven with her biographical background. She shows that all stories carry their own energy and that feelings of loneliness, vulnerability and the search for happiness and identity are experienced every day.
