The PhotoWalk Podcast EPISODE #525 HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE PROFOUNDLY There are moments in life when something deeply personal finds its way into the wider world—and this is one of them. My photo project Chalk-Stone White has been included in The PhotoWalk Podcast by Neale James, Episode #525: “How to Change Your Life Profoundly” (UK, 27 March 2026).
The Fictional: Rewriting Reality (London, 2026) In 2024, I began The Fictional—a photographic inquiry into the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. Inspired in part by The Peripheral, the series explored how power persists through architecture, symbolism, and narrative, even as reality itself fractures. Now, in 2026, I return to the same terrain with Aeon
‘Freedom begins where the old story ends’. ophelia rising now. ”OPHELIA RISING’ IS AN INVITATION: TO STEP OUT OF THE WATER, TO LET THE OLD SELF DISSOLVE, AND TO RESURRECT INTO A FREER EXISTENCE. She is taught to be beautiful before she is taught to be free. From childhood, the script is whispered into her
We walk across collapsed burial mounds, along worn tarmac and salt marsh, through quagmires where black crows pick at the remnants of life. ‘THIS TERRAIN MIRRORS OUR OWN MOMENT. PAST AND PRESENT NO LONGER SIT IN SEQUENCE BUT OVERLAP, ERODING INTO ONE ANOTHER. THE CHALK CLIFFS, CONTINUALLY SHAPED BY PRESSURE AND WEATHER, REVEAL HOW ALL
Freedom looks like disorder, It smells like decay, And still, it is freedom. The Scent of Freedom In the final years of communism, a system built on control, my grandmother—a nurse at a psychiatric hospital in central Poland—used to take me with her to work. I was a child, watching quietly. The hospital had been
Born during the collapse of communism, my childhood was spent between my grandfather’s cinema and the psychiatric hospital where my grandmother worked. I silently observed the fragility of human nature and learned early on that sanity is political and reality is negotiable.
World Artist Award at Busan International Environment Art Festival I am deeply honoured and grateful to share that I have received the World Artist Award from the 22nd Busan International Environment Art Festival (BIEAF) in South Korea. The Lost Center – Invitation Exhibition 2026 The award is connected to the invitation exhibition “The Lost Center”,
Monika K. Adler’s photography work in Postcards from the Edge, Berry Campbell Gallery, Jan 24–25, 2026.
World Artist Award at Busan International Environment Art Festival Certificate Of Appreciation for Monika K Adler from Busan International Art Festival 2025 curated by Michael Kazemi. — Monika K. Adler, London, 2026. BIAF is a cultural event that practices global cultural exchange activities for the harmonization of culture and art, and aims to express artistic and
Photography articles September 2025 Monika K Adler – Between Crowds and Horizons Rare Storyteller Magazine, 26 Sept. 2025 Read here… The Fictional: How Monika K Adler exposes power, truth, and manipulation through photography About Photography Blog, 7 September 2025, UK Read here…
