Best With a Dash of Worse
While the inception of this project might have been a personal search of
identity, it has become, in some sense, a comment on the role photography
plays in our lives, its impact on our perception of it, memory & record
keeping, nostalgia, loss and happiness. The book is hand bound, self
printed and titled best, with a dash of worse. It is organized around three
themes, each focusing on one aspect of memories and family albums: home,
water and female figures. The book embodies both appropriated images and
photographs I’ve taken myself. Some of the found images are scanned and
some re-photographed by me in various contexts and environments. Although
the book is not following a typological system, the three themes almost
make a systematic rhythm, as they repeat in a 5 seemingly specific
sequencing order. The method is broken to begin with, yet it still makes
sense in the book as a whole. The cover of the book is made of a raw book
board. One Kodak color slide is debossed, and flushed onto the front cover.
The slide’s content becomes apparent upon lifting the cover, and when light
passes through it.
While the inception of this project might have been a personal search of
identity, it has become, in some sense, a comment on the role photography
plays in our lives, its impact on our perception of it, memory & record
keeping, nostalgia, loss and happiness. The book is hand bound, self
printed and titled best, with a dash of worse. It is organized around three
themes, each focusing on one aspect of memories and family albums: home,
water and female figures. The book embodies both appropriated images and
photographs I’ve taken myself. Some of the found images are scanned and
some re-photographed by me in various contexts and environments. Although
the book is not following a typological system, the three themes almost
make a syste [read more...]
[close]