The Killed Book
2022-present
The Killed Book is inspired by so-called Killed Negatives - negatives of rejected images that were punctured with a hole puncher - created by American photographers and systematically destroyed in the 1930s. These photographers included Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, and John Vachon. The negatives were punched under the direction of Roy Stryker, head of the FSA Historical Section, to remove images that did not fit his vision.
The collection I am building is personal, almost intimate, and yet very broad at the same time. The idea behind this project is to find a metaphor for the hidden, the unexplained and the incomplete - in objects, nature, people, and situations.
Whereas a picture usually documents reality, it can also conceal it, making it inaccessible. In that case, all we can do is interpret, much like dreams - and in the end, interpretation is just speculation.
The Killed Book is inspired by so-called Killed Negatives - negatives of rejected images that were punctured with a hole puncher - created by American photographers and systematically destroyed in the 1930s. These photographers included Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, and John Vachon. The negatives were punched under the direction of Roy Stryker, head of the FSA Historical Section, to remove images that did not fit his vision.
The collection I am building is personal, almost intimate, and yet very broad at the same time. The idea behind this project is to find a metaphor for the hidden, the unexplained and the incomplete - in objects, nature, people, and situations.
Whereas a picture usually documents reality, it can also conceal it, making it inaccessible. In that case, all we can do is interpret, much like dreams - and in the end, interpretation is just speculation.
The collection I am building is personal, almost intimate, and yet very broad at the same time. The idea behind this project is to find a metaphor for the hidden, the unexplained and the incomplete - in objects, nature, people, and situations.
Whereas a picture usually documents reality, it can also conceal it, making it inaccessible. In that case, all we can do is interpret, much like dreams - and in the end, interpretation is just speculation.
