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an essay on the concave city corner, published
It has been a busy year since an essay on the concave city corner won the Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award in 2018. A long but interesting and satisfying process has passed to create a published book from the dummy. After learning what to ask for, KOPA was chosen as the printing house. This was followed by wet proofing, empty dummy checking and changing design details to match the offset printing process. Chief curator of PWA, Moritz Neumuller, helped overlook the printing and Raimundas Austinkas performed colour separations. We were very well prepared so everything went smoothly on the printing day.
The book was presented at Photobook Week Aarhus 2019 last week with an exhibition at Dokk1, the main public library, curated by Jesper Rasmussen. We also organised a psychogeographical walking tour in the city, comprising 14 concave corners for people to experience first hand. You can find the digital version of the flyer here. It is still possible to visit Aarhus and let the corners show you the city in a unconventional way. Anything can happen during your walk. And if you are in Aarhus, you can also pop into Galleri Image and get a copy of the book. More photographs (credit: Emily Beresford) of the whole weekend can be found here.
Two weeks ago, the book was also soft launched at Unseen Book Market at the table of Tipi Bookshop. Thank you to everyone who came by and of course Andrea for hosting me, which he’ll be doing again at Polycopies in Paris (November 6-10). Maybe I’ll see you there! He will have my book too this weekend at the Institut Pour La Photographie in Lille.
Meanwhile, the book is also available on my website (see about) and the dedicated concave city corners website (see info). For those who didn’t know, prints are also for sale. So if you like a particular corner, let me know.
an essay on the concave city corner,
a newsletter
A lot of people have been asking me when the book will available or have shown interest in buying a copy. I’ve opened a newsletter to keep you informed about the progress: from dummy to published book. The first newsletter is due at the end of the month. You don’t have to worry about spam, there will be only 1 or 2 updates before the book will be available.
If you follow this link you can subscribe.
exhibition: mentormentor
This december you’ll have the chance to see the second group exhibition of mentormentor. mentormentor supports photographers in their artistic process. For the last two years I was part of their groep traject. Two years may seem long but I can assure you, it isn’t. For me, joining the group set things in motion I couldn’t have predicted. The result of all member photographers can be seen in the exhibition. Everyone is welcome!
Vernissage
Fri 07.12.2018 / 19h
Open
Sat 08.12 – Sun 09.12 / 11h – 19h
Fri 14.12 – Sat 15.12 – Sun 16.12.2018 / 11h – 19h
an essay on the concave city corner, an overview
Last spring and summer my dummy an essay on the concave city corner got shortlisted at Self Publish Riga 2018 (winner of the audience award) and Unseen 2018. And last but not least it has won the Photobook Week Aarhus 2018 dummy award! I’m very honoured and happy the jury selected an essay on the concave city corner as the winner from the top 3 finalists (myself, Kensaku Seki and Jens Schwarz). The jury motivated their choice as follows:
An essay on the concave corner is a book that does very much on very little. It explores the absurdity and beauty in photographing corners, that might be overlooked, and sets up an exaggerated system of measuring and analyzing what we see. Content and form work together in a radical way. With the slim format the book becomes an object, and the design emphasizes the tall photographs of corners. The many fold-outs works well, as they actually repeat the geometry of the corners. An essay on the concave corner is not just a photobook, it is also an artists book, and it tends to bridge the gaps, that there often are between those two disciplines.
I especially like the opening sentence, as it’s what I’m aiming for. Winning the award means that the dummy will be published by Photobook Week Aarhus in collaboration with Kvadrat and the Reflektor platform. It will distributed by Idea Books in a media partnership with European Photography. And it will be available through me too. So let me know if you are interested.
Next to this I also made a dedicated website for the dummy and it’s content: the corners and the analysis. You can find it through my website or directly here. Please check it out and take your time!
(photo credit: Kensaku Seki)
featured: an essay on the concave city corner, the dummy.
BrowniE has featured my dummy an essay on the concave city corner on their website with a short interview. They found my dummy in the Bring Your Photobook caravan of the Liege Photobook Festival and selected it as one of their favourites. L’interview est en français.
exhibition: real estate architecture summer school 2017
I’ve photographed the Brussels north district in commission by Real Estate Architecture together with Antoine Espinasseau. While I explored the exterior of the district, Antoine explored the interiors. Real Estate Architecture are 4 architects who explore the legacy of architectures built by private developers during the 1960s and 1970s. This year they organize a summer school about the office building in the WTC towers in Brussels, where the exhibition will also be. It opens this Sunday, if you find time, please go and see!
publication: derivations 4
Some of my concave city corners photos were published in the InterCity section of Dérivations. The magazine is a biannual review that focuses on the city in all its facets. It offers analysis, inquiry, debate, art criticism, opinion texts, but also photography, drawings and comics. Dérivations wants to make the city a subject in its own right in a French-speaking Belgium that obviously disinvests its big cities. It’s available here.
in situ: not there
some of my ‘not there’ photographs found a home.
in situ: fotofilmic ’14 exhibitor collection
three weeks left to buy a photograph of my private-public duality series from the fotofilmic print shop (digital C lambda print). do not forget to give look at photographs from other artists of the 2014 exhibitor collection and the 2015 shortlist collection.
urbanautica in belgium to review portfolio
I’ve have been mentioned in an overview of an urbanautica review.
exhibition: fotofilmic’14
This is the third and last instalment of the travelling group show of the fotofilmic14 winners. If you are in New York… it opens tomorrow.
featured: fotofilmic’14 instagram takeover
I was invited by FotoFilmic to do an Instagram takeover from Dec 07 – 13. Be sure to follow them! They wrote a warming descriptive summary of my takeover here.
featured / exhibition: fotofilmic’14
The Fotofilmic ‘14 exhibition winners are announced and I’m very happy to be included in the exhibition. Even more, a photograph of private-public has been granted an honorable mention (5th place)! A big thank you goes out to the Fotofilmic team and the jurors. More info on their website. Be sure to check out the other winners!
featured: ‘not there’ in snor graduation issue 2014
Every year, SNOR photography magazine launches an open call for students graduating from a photography academy. ‘not there’ was included this year.
in situ: fotofilmic printshop
I’m proud to announce that some of my my private – public duality project images are available for purchase on the Fotofilmic Printshop. I’m very happy with this opportunity to see my images printed by a Lightjet process, as I’ve been using an Inkjet process myself for printing my work so far. The print quality is excellent so you won’t be disappointed if you decide to purchase. Also, my work is in very good company so be sure to check out the other artists’ work. [Update: not available anymore].
featured: fotofilmic’14 shortlist#02
Some images of private-public have been shortlisted for the Fotofilmic Competition of 2014. You can find my featured piece on their website. Also be sure to check out the competition.
featured: humble arts foundation group show 39
Two photographs of private – public duality project have been featured onTough Turf Group Exhibition 39 of the Humble Arts Foundation. Don’t forget to check out the work of the other artists in this impressive digital exhibition. Also their essay on the exhibition is an interesting read.
exhibition: the World as I found it 2.0
Photographs of private – public will be displayed at the World as I found it 2.0 exhibition. Please like if you like! Also check out the website for a preview.
exhibition: the World as I found it
Photographs of private – public will be displayed at the World as I found it exhibition.