Writings
Kent Klich A Tree Called Home
The wall paint is peeling, floor tiles are missing, and upholstery is escaping from the sofa. Kent Klich’s photographs of daily life at Russian psychiatric institutions include empty rooms, portraits and details of interiors. That which is worn and tatty appears as a recurring refrain throughout this body of work, t…
Kent Klich A Tree Called Home
The wall paint is peeling, floor tiles are missing, and upholstery is escaping from the sofa. Kent Klich’s photographs of daily life at Russian psychiatric institutions include empty rooms, portraits and details of interiors. That which is worn and tatty appears as a recurring refrain throughout this body of work, t…
The Other, and Us
Photography has long suffered from the myth of certitude, “the camera never lies” serving as a crutch. In fact, photography is quite subjective and can at times be mysterious.
Serious photographers know that relying on a perception of the camera as truth-teller both diminishes them as observers and elides their responsibilit…
The Other, and Us
Photography has long suffered from the myth of certitude, “the camera never lies” serving as a crutch. In fact, photography is quite subjective and can at times be mysterious.
Serious photographers know that relying on a perception of the camera as truth-teller both diminishes them as observers and elides their responsibilit…
ABSTRACT
Some have talked about a crisis in documentary photography since its inter- and post-war heydays. But more recently a new kind of art-documentary has developed with a self-reflexive approach towards the limits and the possibilities of photography. The spectrum between documentary and art provides photography with a specific opportunity to …
ABSTRACT
Some have talked about a crisis in documentary photography since its inter- and post-war heydays. But more recently a new kind of art-documentary has developed with a self-reflexive approach towards the limits and the possibilities of photography. The spectrum between documentary and art provides photography with a specific opportunity to …
Killing Time
How do we approach the visual imagery of devastated homes and dispossessed lives in Gaza after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza (2008-2009). There are photos here, taken after the bombings, but there are also cell phone videos. In each case, the camera and the visual image seems to have survived the lives and dwellings it recorded. The …
Killing Time
How do we approach the visual imagery of devastated homes and dispossessed lives in Gaza after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza (2008-2009). There are photos here, taken after the bombings, but there are also cell phone videos. In each case, the camera and the visual image seems to have survived the lives and dwellings it recorded. The …
Drug addiction, prostitution, homelessness, war, and broken families: these are all subjects that have been the focus of Kent Klich’s work over the past thirty years. All his projects share a profound interest in human rights and the belief that everyone has the right to be recognized as a human being, regardless of their social background, family …
Drug addiction, prostitution, homelessness, war, and broken families: these are all subjects that have been the focus of Kent Klich’s work over the past thirty years. All his projects share a profound interest in human rights and the belief that everyone has the right to be recognized as a human being, regardless of their social background, family …
Not all photo books are of the coffee-table variety. There are also some with a considerably more modest appearance in which the actual content condenses existence to a few pages. On a book table I spot two slim volumes bound together by a narrow paper ribbon on which the following three questions are written: ”How do we move about in public space?…
Not all photo books are of the coffee-table variety. There are also some with a considerably more modest appearance in which the actual content condenses existence to a few pages. On a book table I spot two slim volumes bound together by a narrow paper ribbon on which the following three questions are written: ”How do we move about in public space?…
What is the story of a human being? Can it even be told? Yes, but obviously a final and true version does not exist. Life is lived forward but remembered backwards. But even at the end of life, it will not be possible to give an unequivocal account of it. Even within the narrative genres it is not possible to point to the best, the truest. The diar…
What is the story of a human being? Can it even be told? Yes, but obviously a final and true version does not exist. Life is lived forward but remembered backwards. But even at the end of life, it will not be possible to give an unequivocal account of it. Even within the narrative genres it is not possible to point to the best, the truest. The diar…
NO VICTIM
For more than 20 years photographer Kent Klich has followed the heroically struggling Beth R, an orphan and a drug addict. The other book in which Beth is a co-author with her diary is a call to all of us to create an environment where every child is seen and met with kindness, writes Marie Lundquist.
”There is nothing more important…
NO VICTIM
For more than 20 years photographer Kent Klich has followed the heroically struggling Beth R, an orphan and a drug addict. The other book in which Beth is a co-author with her diary is a call to all of us to create an environment where every child is seen and met with kindness, writes Marie Lundquist.
”There is nothing more important…
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