Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick: Towards the Light
“Completely captivated by the photographic possibilities of light, both artists come at the medium with a desire to seek the extraordinary, in order to access invisible states of consciousness.”
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“Completely captivated by the photographic possibilities of light, both artists come at the medium with a desire to seek the extraordinary, in order to access invisible states of consciousness.”
“He recalls developing his negatives by moonlight, having to make his way to the ferry on a road thick with often-time un-negotiable elephant herds. He tells of carrying his chemicals with him and cutting down his negatives to get a surplus of possibilities. I never had this.”
“He plays with the disruption in the aesthetic surfaces of our daily life and this allows him (and us) to experience a reality which might be bypassed.”
Moriyama admits that repetition is his way of working, and that his impulse to reproduce his surroundings today is much the same as it was when he got his first camera, in junior high.
“If you are a fan of Thai psychedelic music from the 60’s the design of this book alone will be enough for you.”
“Already rife with distrust, crooked smiles, and manufactured cutout econo-kit fashions, these images betray their ultimate aim, which is to represent an ideology through a gesture of the candidate’s ¾ portrait.”
At its surface, the need to stand, to rise, and to disembowel the state looks permeable
There was something nearly satisfying in the midst of tying his sister’s best friend to a board of broken glass
“I always imagine that it looks like a whisper would look if a whisper would wail.”
So goes the hysterical re-invention of hysteria by Javier Viver
I wanted very badly to rally the troop of self against THE MACHINE…
“Fuck, he’s going to take up my time telling me about how he’s been a photographer since the 60’s…”