In this photobook exhibition Danit Ariel, Photoworks Curator, looks at the form of the photobook as a narrator, or a medium in and of itself.
As opposed to the traditional photobook with a uniform layout, which may come in a box, or paired with white gloves, Photobook as Narrator is an exhibition of publications that not only hold the medium of photography, but photography works that in becoming a book, transform the narrative or add a crucial layer to the story.
From Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese’s book Thinking Like an Island, published by Overlapse, which is comprised of four books which the reader must navigate and get lost in, much like the experience of being on an island; to Jacob Lazarus’s Frames of Annexation, published by Zone6, which sees a video archive documenting human rights abuses and solidarity activism in the Jordan Valley, become a publication through audiences bearing witness and selecting frames of footage to be spreads in the photobook.
Danit Ariel
Danit Ariel is an artist, writer and curator, whose practice looks into how art can create new ways of meeting. She is the author of Nayah: Empathy as an Act of Resistance which explores the role of gender in practices of empathy; and All the Tables are Brown, looking more specifically at language as both a bridge and barrier between communities. As Photoworks’ curator, she manages the curatorial programme and develops the Photoworks Festival.
