Berlin, Germany
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PIPPA SAMAYA is a Berlin based photographer and film-maker with an international body of work. Awards include two-time winner of the International 60 Second Dance Film Competition (Denmark/Finland),the Australian Dance Award for Excellence in Dance on Film, winner of Best Film at the FAD Film Festival, North Carolina (US), The Berlin Motion Picture festival (Germany) and the Portland dance film festival (USA). Winner of Best Music Video at the NIMA awards, selected as a winner in the international Life Framer awards (Faces of life), exhibited finalist at the National Photography Prize, finalist in the Martin Kantor Portrait prize at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in 2017, nominee for the International Fine Arts Photography Award and winner of Best Action Shot and Excellence in Staged Photography in the SALON exhibit at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne. With an insatiable curiosity for the complexities of the human experience, Pippa’s professional path turned instinctually toward the world of portraiture and international documentary/humanitarian work. She joined with USA based NGO One Voice over several years traveling to remote villages in India and Nicaragua as well as a Syrian Refugee camp in Greece. A specialisation in dance photography stemmed from the discovery that dancers provided a deeply empathetic physical vessel, which enabled her to communicate through external imagery the internal world of the human psyche. This lead on to extensive work in the contemporary dance industry in Australia, New Zealand and Europe working with leading companies and choreographers. Notable to much of this work is her collaborative film company The Samaya Wives, formed with Australian contemporary dancer Tara Jade Samaya. Using dance on camera as a medium, coming together in life and in creation to explore the many colours and tones of what it means to be alive on this earth and reveal the innate one-ness that ultimately links us all. The Samaya Wives strive towards equality, wisdom, compassion and authentic connection.
A stain on my perfect intention. A blot spreading on the hand I use to control it all. A crinkle in my perfect circle. A pin prick glitch that leads to my unravelling. A breath of wind that opens into a storm, rushing towards my ultimate surrender. A homage to the beauty of the imperfect.
A short film by Pippa Samaya & Niharika Senapati On residency with The Pickle Factory Dance Foundation (India) Supported by Asialink arts & Creative Victoria
----Top Ten finalist in all four countries for the international 60seconddance competition and Winner of two countries- Denmark and Finland in 2016. Winner of best dance on film at the Australian Dance awards 2017---- A surrealist approach to cinematography, to explore the human race's ever-present hunger for knowledge and the value placed upon what you (think you) know. The quest to know it all,
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