These photographs were taken by weather cameras in Finland every twelve minutes. From that point, the Finnish weather authorities/authorities who observed the weather uploaded the images online to be viewed for 24 hours before they disappeared. This presented an opportunity for Finnish artist Tatu Gustafsson to perform for the weather camera and document […]
Charles Johnstone, Au Revoir Anna, 2023 The history of the television on art and photography/photobooks is compelling. My interest stems from having grown up with the television as the primary utility of my creative life. When I say television, I am not thinking of regular programming, but instead of the vast array of films […]
The story a nation tells itself is crucially important to its people’s sense of national identity. It serves also as a way of establishing and maintaining a shared set of values. Primordialism is the dogmatic belief that one’s national origins are defined by skin colour, blood and a spiritual belonging, but if you don’t subscribe […]
It would be hard to hand this photobook to someone in a decontextualized state and expect them to understand the modalities of ecstasy and horror that permeate the frames. In the first seventy or eighty percent of the book, figures cavort and twist and are undetermined by a common goal. They are bodies of a […]