Southnord teamed up with  Fotografiska  to activate the  Cindy Sherman  exhibition on 21 March 2024, offering an evening of talks and performance featuring the photography platform  Rise and Shoot. Based in Järva, Sweden, Rise and Shoot works to realise creative ideas of young people with passion for photographing with the aim of enabling pathways into the industry and promote diversity in creative rooms.

This video is an artist talk with eight young photographers: Ali Malim, Hamsa Abdelgadir, Hayat Dualeh, Issra Dziri, Nemo Bergström, Kendra Salas Wahlberg, Sucdi Said och Thisbe Freerks, who all participated in Rise and Shoot’s year-long photography course in 2023. The resulting exhibition Visual Diaries: Chronicles of the Self, that was previously shown at Lava, Kulturhuset. In a time where our identities are often influenced by external factors and expectations, the exhibition provides expression of a courageous questioning of these influences. Through every image, the students describe their personal journeys, question stereotypes and create dialogue around self-image and self-perception.