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.
2024 Artist in Residence - Joya:Air, Spain
2019-2020 Master of Arts in Photography
Tito Mouraz & Antonio Pedrosa, IPCI, Porto
Group shows
2022 „One eye sees, the other feels“ curated by
Zone Mag, Daste Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2021 IPCI Gallery, Lisboa, Küss den Frosch
2020 PB27 Gallery, Porto, Küss den Frosch
Collective Book
2023 „The Big Rot“ second collective Book, Zone Mag
Awards
2024 Belfast Photo Festival
The sun shines for everyone, Highly Commended
2024 Art Photographie Award, Lensculture,
The sun shines for everyone, Finalist
2021 Novos Talentos Fnac,
Küss den Frosch, Silver Winner
2021 Budapest International Foto Awards,
Küss den Frosch, Bronze Winner
2021 IMAGO Lisboa Portfolio Review,
Küss den Frosch, Short Liste Top 10