🔊sound on! — A short excerpt 👀 from our upcoming collaborative video work with PhD researcher Andrea Jaeger @ajaeg from Nottingham Trent University. 🎞️✨
Her research explores the multi-sensorial and immaterial aspects of photography, expanding the understanding of what photography is beyond traditional approaches that primarily focus on the reading of photographs.
Different photographic practices—tensioning, fogging, and tearing photosensitive paper— were explored through artistic research methodologies, highlighting the role of non-visual senses and non-human agency in the making of photography.
Our contribution to her research aims at bringing back into the visual realm the three practices Andrea experienced in different production sites including laboratories and manufacturing plants.
We enjoyed the process in all its steps: from the initial idea exchange that sparked our interest to the making and editing of the video work. As Grupppo, we always welcome new collaborations with artists, researchers and institutions looking for visual solutions. 🔗
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I have had the pleasure to be welcomed to the Low Residency space @studio459tomar hosted by Mark, Goao and Poppy and made possible by the brilliant Host_Guest_Host @contraststructurebrightness . We walked on Portuguese land, faced the aftermath of hurricane Christen, indulged in the culinary delights of artisan chef @joaogravanita25 , laughed, rested, conversed in much needed peer support and gave ourselves and another permission to feel our ways in making and creating in the aftermath of hurricane PHDoing with many wounds healing and intellectual burdens to be shed. It’s been a thrill and then some.
Nikko National Park and the one and only Kegon waterfalls in close proximity to Lake Chizenji. All in all a truly Zen experience. Arigato goseimasu Nikko🙏🏻#nikko #lovejapan #japanesenature #nikkowaterfalls
Fig 1. 404 Not Found by Yusuke Nagata. Street photography of Tokyo’s subculture of going out, enjoying life, partying which Yusuke has captured in an authentic appealing manner. Yusuke told me that most important is to have fun too when shooting. Yusuke framed the expansive compilation of Tokyos street life in a beautifully printed zine under the concept of the error code ‘404-not found’ as a reminder that ‘the real’ happens outside of social media. Yusuke’s version of Tokyo’s ‘real’ presents mostly as black and white moments that are loud, sharp and raw unless there is ‘The smoking lady’ (Fig. 2) sitting in solitude and silence. I treated myself to the fresh of the press zine ‘404 contact sheets’ (Fig. 3) consisting of many film negatives to demonstrate the process as much as final shots. Pure visual pleasure; arigato goseimasu Yusuke.
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Fig 1. It shows the subtle evening sunlight flickering through the trees. In Japanese it’s called ‘Komorebi’, a notion to describe “the scattered light that filters through when sunlight shines through trees”.
Fig 2. Replica of uranium ore
Fig 3. Mount Fuji replica at the Science Museum
Fig 4. Hokusai ‘The 36 Views of Mt Fuji’
Highlights of my Photo London encounter
Image 1, 2, 3: Katayama Mari’s work in the Aperture publication: I’m so happy you are here. Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now.
Image 4: Exquisite limited edition photobook publisher ‘The Angry Bat’ from Slovenia.
Image 5: Crazy Fish Sing by Yoghurt Editions and showcased by The Krishna-Krausz Books Awards which are the UK’s leading prizes that celebrate excellence in photography and moving image publishing.
Image 6+7: Brea Sonders series with How do men see women (2023), Sunlit Mouth (2023) Haiku (2023) among others.
Image 8: Tania Franco Klein: Mercado de Sonora, 2020 (the ‘red’ pig only one example of a striking series)
Image 9: Colin Dodgson’s project tracing journeys aboard ‘Belmond’s sleeper trains.
Image 10: Jordan Eagles’s ‘Arriving I go on”
Image 11: Tom Hunter’s “Women Reading Possession Order”
Images 12+13: Joy Gregory’s ‘Alongside Matron Bell series (2020) that is a visual testament to the Windrush generation’s female labour from the Caribbean.
Image 14: Esther Kinsky’s ‘Seeing Further’ beautifully published by @Fitzcarraldo Editions
Image 15: Rosalind Fox Salmon’s photo essay into ‘A Woman I Once Knew’ published by MACK.
Image 16: Me leaving with a big smile on my face. It’s been a blue-skied love affair.
Beautiful Jamaican dry cleaner in myneighbourhood. Also, bloody squeezed out from rejection for Immersive Arts funding, no go from Lakeside Arts for exhibitions proposal and not selected for ‘Feeling and Photography @photoszene . But then, Theaster Gates is on @whitecube which will lift up my spirits, I must hope.
