To celebrate Variations, Felicity Hammond’s touring solo exhibition currently on view at QUAD Derby until 15 June, we’ve partnered with our friends at Thames & Hudson for an exclusive photobook giveaway. Complete our short audience survey for the chance to win a curated bundle of three photobooks, handpicked by Felicity Hammond, for the ways they explore themes central to her practice, including machine learning, data mining, and the digital shaping of our environments.
Three giveaway winners will receive:
- The Synthetic Eye by Fred Ritchin
- Lan Party by Merritt K
- Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography by Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford & Laura Wexler
To be in with a chance of winning, complete the survey by Thursday 29 May. The most thoughtful responses will be shortlisted, and from those, winners will be selected at random.
Read more about Felicity’s choices below
LAN Party by Merritt K
‘This book captures such a particular technological moment, where evolving computing and gaming technologies created unique social environments. It’s interesting how this book has been put together – of course these images were made at a time where digital photography was really low-res – a whole era defined by often blurry, pixelated images. But here, AI upscaling has been used to restore these images, posing questions around how AI can be used to re-imagine archival images.’
The Synthetic Eye by Fred Ritchin
‘This book poses many questions I have been interested in throughout my research, examining what lays beneath the surface of artificially generated images.’
You can read more from Fred Ritchin in our latest issue of Photography+, [name and link]
Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography by Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler
‘One for my to-read list. In an age where ‘photographic’ images can be generated with the absence of the camera, a critical understanding of how collaboration occurs (in its broadest sense) within photographic production is crucial for all image makers. Collaboration is happening at all stages of image production, and this book traces this history, challenging the photographer as a “single creator”.’
About Variations
Staged in four venues across the UK, Variations by Felicity Hammond is an evolving installation exploring the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning.
Listings for the touring exhibition
V1: Content Aware (Brighton, Jubilee Square), 24 – 27 October 2024
V2: Rigged (Derby, QUAD), 14 March – 15 June 2025
V3: Model Collapse (London, The Photographers Gallery), 27 June – 21 September 2025
V4: Repository (Edinburgh, Stills Centre for Photography), 6 November 2025 – 7 February 2026
