The Thing
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Inspired by Aimé Céaire’s formulation “colonisation = chosification” [1], Photoworks Annual #30 is themed. Gathering work from 30 artists, five writers, and two curators, this publication considers how the camera objectifies, and how image-makers have broached this. is an intersectional project including 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” [2].
The Thing includes 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’ Annuals, 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.
Read more about The Thing here.
The Thing
Photoworks Annual #30
Published 06 October 2023
176 pages
Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life
ISBN: 9 781903 796597
