A long marriage beautifully captured in new photography book
A long marriage beautifully captured in new photography book
Erik Kessels’ new book,
In Almost Every Picture #17, traces the photographs a couple take on a lifetime of holidays
Dutch artist Erik Kessels tells the visual story of an Italian couple, Carlo and Luciana, in his new book,
In Almost Every Picture #17.
Every year on their holiday, the couple from Vignola in Modena, Italy, photographed each other in the same location. At the start of their marriage, the photographs are in black and white before the couple take almost a 40 year break from holidaying to concentrate on their working life. Once retired, the images begin again in colour as the couple resumed their travels around the world.
Talk Soon is a photographic record of two artists’ quarantine conversations
Erik Kessels and Thomas Sauvin spent lockdown communicating via photographs, with the dialogue now collected in Talk Soon – which offers a collection of nonsensical juxtapositions that speak to the weirdness of quarantine 03/03/2021 8:01 am
The book captures the strange, wordless exchange the pair shared from their respective home towns of Amsterdam and Beijing, which has been transformed into a set of split-screen postcards, published by Atelier Éditions, that others can tear out and send on.
The archive of imagery forms a kind of bizarre narrative, bringing together photographs that somehow resonate with one another. An image of a woman doing gymnastics appears next to a boy bending over a wooden tub, and snaps of crockery – apparently clipped from a catalogue – sit happily together. Another page features a (poorly) taxidermied seal beneath a plastic depiction of the animal.