Passenger
from series: Aircraft Sighting: 33°40' N, 13°05' E
2014 | photographic macro treatment on aluminium mount | 11.81 x 11.81 inches | 30 x 30 cm |
Drift - Caroline Bergvall
Essays, Intergenre, Poetry,
paperback, 190 pages, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in
ISBN: 978-1-937658-20-5
Essays, Intergenre, Poetry,
paperback, 190 pages, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in
ISBN: 978-1-937658-20-5
DRIFT + Aircraft Sighting: 33°40' N, 13°05' E
Artist Caroline Bergvall asked me to create a body of work for a collaborative project.
The resulting images are macro explorations of an image of migrants lost at sea. In this way, the macro processing of the image does not de-sensitise the content by making it abstract, but activates it beyond its original purpose - beyond the dossiers and official reports, beyond the consumed and discarded newspapers and on-line articles. Like the reconnaissance plane, the macro works hone in on a tiny event, a speck of tragedy in the vast sea – magnified.
Artist Caroline Bergvall asked me to create a body of work for a collaborative project.
The resulting images are macro explorations of an image of migrants lost at sea. In this way, the macro processing of the image does not de-sensitise the content by making it abstract, but activates it beyond its original purpose - beyond the dossiers and official reports, beyond the consumed and discarded newspapers and on-line articles. Like the reconnaissance plane, the macro works hone in on a tiny event, a speck of tragedy in the vast sea – magnified.
