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Photoworks Annual #30, The Thing
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Inspired by Aimé Céaire’s formulation “colonisation = chosification”,
Photoworks Annual #30 is themed The Thing. Gathering 27 projects, this
publication considers how the camera objectifies, and how image-makers
have broached this. is an intersectional project that includes works on
the environment, colonialism, feminism, class, and gay and disability rights,
suggesting a common interest against a commodifying gaze and a technology
both shaped by and perpetuating it. As Ariella Aïsha Azoulay has put it,
“photography was not co-opted by imperialism but rather grew out of it”.
Photoworks Annual #30 is themed The Thing. Gathering 27 projects, this
publication considers how the camera objectifies, and how image-makers
have broached this. is an intersectional project that includes works on
the environment, colonialism, feminism, class, and gay and disability rights,
suggesting a common interest against a commodifying gaze and a technology
both shaped by and perpetuating it. As Ariella Aïsha Azoulay has put it,
“photography was not co-opted by imperialism but rather grew out of it”.
The Thing includes 176 pages, and images from the following artists: Eleonora
Agostini, Remy Artiges, Vincen Beeckman and La Deviniere, Lucas Blalock, Leah
Clements, Juan Covelli, Giana De Dier, Dries and Bieke Depoorter, Odette
England, Jermaine Francis, Frederike Helwig, Lauren Huret, Sky Hopinka,
Mahmoud Khaled, Xiang Li, Javier Hirschfeld Moreno, David O’Mara, Liz Orton,
Lam Pok Yin and Chong Ng, Wakilur Rahman, Felipe Romero Beltrán, RoN, Julie
Scheurweghs, Matilde Søes Rasmussen, Sheida Soleimani, Tabitha Soren, and
Sofia Yala.
Each artists’ project is individually introduced, and also features
newly commissioned essays by four writers and academics which center
around time, black women artists, and depictions of people by NGOs and aid
agencies: Marta Labad, Pelumi Odubanjo, and Jess Crombie & Siobhan
Warrington. The introductory essay is by Diane Smyth, Editor of Photoworks
and this Annual, and also includes a round-table transcript of
Photoworks Curators Julia Bunneman and Danit Ariel with Matilde Søes
Rasmussen, Felipe Romero Beltrán, and Mahmoud Khaled discussing power
and image appropriation.
Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life, The Thing’s cover features a bespoke
lettering which nods to B-movies and horror stories, in which the
disempowered sometimes fight back. The Thing also features reflective silver
cover papers evoking the Situationist Internationale’s journals and mass-
produced mirrors, the latter a technology of display that emerged alongside
photography, shop windows, and museum vitrines, at the start of industrial
capitalism. is printed on recycled and part-recycled sustainable
papers, and is fully recyclable.
Clements, Juan Covelli, Giana De Dier, Dries and Bieke Depoorter, Odette
England, Jermaine Francis, Frederike Helwig, Lauren Huret, Sky Hopinka,
Mahmoud Khaled, Xiang Li, Javier Hirschfeld Moreno, David O’Mara, Liz Orton,
Lam Pok Yin and Chong Ng, Wakilur Rahman, Felipe Romero Beltrán, RoN, Julie
Scheurweghs, Matilde Søes Rasmussen, Sheida Soleimani, Tabitha Soren, and
Sofia Yala.
Each artists’ project is individually introduced, and also features
newly commissioned essays by four writers and academics which center
around time, black women artists, and depictions of people by NGOs and aid
agencies: Marta Labad, Pelumi Odubanjo, and Jess Crombie & Siobhan
Warrington. The introductory essay is by Diane Smyth, Editor of Photoworks
and this Annual, and also includes a round-table transcript of
Photoworks Curators Julia Bunneman and Danit Ariel with Matilde Søes
Rasmussen, Felipe Romero Beltrán, and Mahmoud Khaled discussing power
and image appropriation.
Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life, The Thing’s cover features a bespoke
lettering which nods to B-movies and horror stories, in which the
disempowered sometimes fight back. The Thing also features reflective silver
cover papers evoking the Situationist Internationale’s journals and mass-
produced mirrors, the latter a technology of display that emerged alongside
photography, shop windows, and museum vitrines, at the start of industrial
capitalism. is printed on recycled and part-recycled sustainable
papers, and is fully recyclable.
Copies can be preordered now, they will arrive for the launch event on Thu 12 Oct.
Title: Photoworks Annyal #30, The Thing
Publisher: Photoworks
Editor: Diane Smyth
Authors: Various
Photographers: Various
Graphic Design: A Practice for Everyday Life
