Photobook Reviewer, Unless You Will & Momento Pro / Photography Studies College
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
'Between Realities' is a one-day symposium addressing diverse
photographic positions, which challenge the prevailing modes of visual
representation and their supposed factual depiction of reality through
the photographic medium.
Several international artists have been invited, who in practice blur the borders between fact and fiction, thus re-imagining and subverting the traditional visual conception of the documentary genre.
The intention of the presentations is to open the discussion about the truth of an absolute ‘objective’ photographic replication of reality. Is the reproduction of a pictorial unadulterated ‘objective truth’ an erroneous belief, a goal neither viable nor desirable?
Several international artists have been invited, who in practice blur the borders between fact and fiction, thus re-imagining and subverting the traditional visual conception of the documentary genre.
The intention of the presentations is to open the discussion about the truth of an absolute ‘objective’ photographic replication of reality. Is the reproduction of a pictorial unadulterated ‘objective truth’ an erroneous belief, a goal neither viable nor desirable?
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
"What emerges over time from this immersion in place in Koenning’s practice is
photography as a process of worlding. In The Crossing there is a sense
in which each photograph offers
a miniature portrait of a natural world on the cusp of disappearance. At the same time, there
is ambiguity at play, especially in
Koenning’s arresting images of fish and bird life hovering between states of appearance and
disappearance, or processes of emergence and withdrawal. In Howqua #1 (Falsche Gezeiten, 2015), a tortoise shimmers in
bioluminescent white light and appears as if plummeting into a dark void or
falling through stars. Might this be the last tortoise, hurtling
toward extinction or, more optimistically, can this sole tortoise be read as
a symbol of species survival and thus an emblem of hope? Some
images draw their titles from the work of Michel Serres and, indeed,
The Crossing echoes the French philosopher’s call for “a natural
contract of symbiosis and reciprocity.”
As an embedded and deeply personal response to a transitioning ecology, Koenning’s images
also embody what Zylinska terms a “post-anthropocentric ethics of
expanded obligations.” This is ethics as “a way of taking responsibility, by the human, for various sorts of thickenings of the
universe, across different scales, and
of responding to the tangled mesh of everyday connections
and relations."
"With the experience of being displaced from a homeland comes a
continuous process of re-placement, through transcending traditional
physical boundaries and traditional methods of psychological
interactions. An anti-linear or disjunctive order emerges from this
constant state of interpretation. Imagined borders give way to imagined
worlds and newly created homes. Invariably and spontaneously responding
to what surrounds and inhabits her when photographing, Koenning’s
aesthetic varies, adjusting itself to
the environment and the experiences that produce it, never following a
formula. Just like a continuous shaft of light full of glimmering dust,
constantly fluctuating, and without boundaries, Indefinitely redefines
the notion of distance associated with the migratory experience by
filling it with the most simple and intense visual poems.” — Claire
Monneraye, Curator, Australian Centre for Photography
Monday, 26 December 2016
Colberg, who picked my work (Indefinitely), writes: “Pictures are more than what they are as pictures. They also are
what we bring to them. Possibly my choice is in part a reflection of how
I have been feeling about the state of this world since this year’s
events have taken humanity back to a very dark place. Indefinitely
for sure is dark and somber. Yet it contains traces of hope, of it
being a dream. We don’t know, yet, whether it’s about to become a
nightmare or whether it will end well.”
Friday, 2 December 2016
Friday, 25 November 2016
"Astres Noirs is an ethereal, other-worldly experience; figures bathe in
half light, galactic dust clouds disrupt familiar landscapes and alien
jellyfish seem to be suspended in motion. The duotone printing shimmers
with an unique silver quality, providing an astonishingly beautiful
publication with a tactility not often experienced in the photobook".
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Friday, 30 September 2016
Saturday, 13 August 2016
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
'Indefinitely is that moment of intimate silence that binds us
to life, that freezes time, action, judgment. It's the space between
reality and imagination. It's the transition from sleep to the
perception of the new day's sun. Katrin Koenning captures observation itself, in its purity; her shots translate a sense of pause that has to do with listening.'
Sunday, 17 July 2016
'Completely captivated by the photographic possibilities of light, both
artists come at the medium with a desire to seek the extraordinary in
order to access invisible states of consciousness...The essence of both their work, therefore, appears to be rooted in the
personal and meditative relationship they have with metaphysical thought
and less with rigid notions of representing a photographic reality.
Astres Noirs gives us an insight into their supernatural vision through
these fairly eclectic astral projections...Having been a follower of both Koenning and Protick
for some time on Instagram, often being mesmerised by their images and
regularly dumbfounded at how they might have been created, I was
beautifully reminded of the very natural affinity both artists have
towards a higher state of consciousness.'
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Friday, 3 June 2016
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