A Metaphysical Slot Machine: Jason Fulford on Frozen Features
In Frozen Features, photographer Jason Fulford surrenders his 30-year archive to chance, explaining in an interview with Nathan Leigh Taylor how he used a “metaphysical slot machine” approach to pair negatives into unexpected juxtapositions. Co-edited with Sarah Chaplin Espenon down to fifty unresolved pairings, the Loose Joints publication draws on the history of photomontage to avoid fixed narratives, inviting readers to engage their own subconscious to complete each image’s meaning.
Reading William Eggleston (II): Reading Guide
Published for William Eggleston’s landmark 1976 MoMA exhibition, William Eggleston’s Guide remains essential reading nearly fifty years later. More than a mere catalogue, it demonstrates how editing and visual rhythm can transform individual snapshots into a coherent, authored experience that teaches us how to see.
Against Legibility: Pale Flare and the Art of Refusal
Pale Flare describes an observation about photographic culture in Thailand, though it applies well beyond. Exhibition statements tend to close down interpretation rather than open it.
Yoese Mariam: A Visual Memoir in Two Acts
Yoese Mariam’s photobooks Three Photos Left and Landep form a visual memoir on grief, memory, family and cultural inheritance.
Yoshiyuki Okuyama: Capturing Fleeting Beauty Through Photobooks
Through Flowers, Bacon Ice Cream and Pocari Sweat, Yoshiyuki Okuyama finds dreamlike magic in fleeting, ordinary moments.
Take a second look: Brian Fouhy’s amusing perspective of everyday things
Artist Brian Fouhy finds humour in the everyday objects we stop noticing, making a case for taking a second look at the world around us.