The Killed Book
2022-present
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All photographs are memento mori.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality...
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality...
Susan Sontag
The Killed Book was 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.
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.