THE ISHADOW PROJECT by Nadine Epstein

While on a reporting trip to Ukraine in 2008, Nadine began to take photos of her shadow on a Kyiv street, while thinking of her ancestors, who had fleetingly called that land home.

Since then, using mostly her iPhone, she has traveled around the world, exploring permutations of her shadow in daylight, moonlight, starlight, lamplight and streetlight.

The iShadow Project is human geography with cultural, environmental and spiritual overtones. Texture and surfaces, natural and manmade; time of day; moisture in the air; topography; wind and weather; hormones and chemicals; and bodies of water, be they puddles or oceans, are all variables, not to mention the filters of light, soul and experience.

The iShadow Project is also theater, dance and movement, hair and attire. Overall, it’s deeply feminist, exploring the exterior and interior shapes of the female body, and making what is fleeting, permanent, as a way of marking female existence on the earth.