Kevin Albinder - After studying music, Kevin Albinder joined several bands before turning to photography a few years later. His first subject naturally became the music scene itself, capturing live performances and the raw energy of concerts through his lens. Over time, his work evolved toward a more creative and intimate approach to photography. Working with numerous models — particularly traveling women he met along the way — he developed a sensitive and free-spirited visual universe shaped by movement, encounters, and human connection. Whether through music or photography,  Kevin Albinder has continued to pursue this artistic exploration alongside his work at Katz's Delicatessen, the iconic New York institution.

Sandra F - Born and raised in Lyon, France, Sandra F. is a photographer, videographer, art model, writer, artist and explorer. Having worked both in front of and behind the camera, she has developed a distinctive approach to self-portraiture. As an explorer, she is drawn to abandoned places and forgotten worlds across the globe, where she finds poetry, nostalgia and traces of lives that once were. Stepping from behind the camera, Sandra places herself at the heart of these environments, becoming a character within their stories. Her human form blends with the architecture and landscapes, creating a dialogue between presence and absence, fragility and decay, past and present. Through her images, she captures moments where a living body meets a world seemingly frozen in time.

Sandra chose to exhibit these images to reveal a world largely hidden from the public — forgotten places, suspended between their past and their present. Her presence in these spaces reveals another, more intimate and authentic side of herself. Alongside these photographs, the photographer who accompanies her in the exhibition also captures Sandra in a studio setting, through a more staged and constructed approach. In this context, the image becomes a mise-en-scène: a carefully composed space where gestures, poses and expressions create a more theatrical, almost instantaneous perspective on reality. Sandra becomes both subject and performer, playing with her image and embodying different versions of herself. The studio becomes a space of performance, where she is seen, observed and invited to inhabit a role. This staged dimension contrasts with the photographs taken in abandoned places, where the image seems to emerge more directly from the moment, from the atmosphere of the space and from the encounter between Sandra and the traces of the past. 

In these forgotten places, away from the public eye, she reveals something quieter and more personal. The contrast between the studio and the abandoned spaces brings out the tension between representation and intimacy, between the constructed image and the immediacy of the real, between the theatrical and the spontaneous. By placing herself within these forgotten worlds, Sandra creates a dialogue between her own hidden self and the intimacy of places that have themselves been left behind. In the studio, she stages and performs her presence; in the abandoned spaces, she seems to let that performance fall away, allowing another form of truth to emerge. Through these images, Sandra offers another perspective on both the worlds she explores and on herself — moving from the theatrical performance of the present to something more vulnerable, timeless and authentic.

Sandra and Kevin chose to bring their work together around the same person, explored through two different perspectives. Kevin photographs Sandra in the studio and around New York city, embracing a staged and theatrical approach. Through poses, gestures and carefully constructed settings, he captures the image of a woman performing and playing with the different versions of herself that can exist in the present. Sandra turns the camera on herself and steps beyond the studio, into abandoned places and forgotten worlds around the globe. Through self-portraiture, she becomes a character within these spaces, blending her body with their architecture, silence and traces of the past. 

Two photographers, two perspectives, two faces of the same person: one seen through another’s gaze, the other revealed through her own. Second Self explores the space between performance and intimacy, the visible and the hidden, the present and a world left behind. "Second Self" is therefore not simply an exhibition of two photographic styles, but a conversation between two photographers and two ways of seeing the same woman — the Sandra who is seen, and the Sandra who chooses what to reveal.