About FFO 2021
“Touching the Distance, Thinking in Relation: Photography as a Practice of Seeing”, is focused on the issue of representation in photography: how does photography speak for or affect various important personal, social, and political issues? In other words, the photographic medium is considered a tool, witness, and register of how we see, connect, and relate to others and the world. The festival's books are grouped into four interconnected themes: (1) ‘Representation and Beyond’ investigates broadly defined portraiture; (2) ‘Photography and Words’ is devoted to a genre of books dealing with a particularly strong relationship between image and text – especially literary texts; (3) ‘Photography and Public Space’ focuses on the problematic question of who (and how) one is present in city public space, and finally (4) ‘Critical Contexts’ includes books that elaborate or comment on vital issues related to contemporary photography.
BOOKS (and PROJECTS)
Theme 1 | Representation and beyond
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Theme 2 | Photography and words
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Theme 3 | Photography and public space
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Theme 4 | Critical contexts
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Collaboration with Hong Kong Photo Festival
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THEME 1 | REPRESENTATION (AND BEYOND)
Dawoud Bey, Class Pictures, Aperture (2007); Street Portraits, MACK (2021)
Christian Belgaux, Sofie Amalie Klougart, Dette året , Molo (2021)
Magnus Cederlund, Intime, Journal (2020)
Mads Greve, Homesick, Book Lab (2021)
Linda Zhengová, Catharsis, self-published (2021)
Andrea Gjestvang, Atlantic Cowboy (2022) | project
Lin Shiauyu, Mould (2022) | project
Rebecca Jafari, Det du (ikke) ser (2021) | project
THEME 2 | PHOTOGRAPHY AND WORDS (LITERATURE)
Tonje Bøe Birkeland, The Characters, The Buthan Trilogy, Bergen Kjøtt Publishing/Gyldenpris Kunsthall (2021)
Tomas Espedal, Mitt privattliv, Gyldendal (2014)
Katinka Goldberg, Bristingar, Journal (2021)
Jiri Havran, Photo After Sebald A New Way Of Looking At W.G. Sebald's Photographs, ARFO(2019)
Anaïs Horn, Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, Meta books (2020)
Xenia Nikolskaya, The House My Grandfather Built, Nikolskaya-Lund Publishing (2020)
Marina Vitaglione, Solastalgia, Overlapse (2017)
Line Ørnes Søndergaard (photo), Yohan Shanmugaratnam (text), BRUDDET (The Split) Forlaget Press (2021)
Karl Ove Knausgård (text) Stephen Gill (photos), Fuglene under himmel, Oktober (2019)
John Erik Riley, Det jeg var, Flamme Forlag (2020)
THEME 3 | PUBLIC SPACE
Jordi Barreras, ALREADY BUT NOT YET, Punctum (2020)
Adrian Bugge, Y. Bygget som forsvant (The building that disappeared), Uten Tittel (2021)
Viel Bjerkeset Andersen, Towards North (Mot nord) 2009 | sculptures at the Arbeidersamfunnets plas
THEME 4 | CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Potential History Unlearning Imperialism, Verso (2019)
Kimberly Juanita Brown, The Repeating Body, Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary, Duke University Press (2015)
Mark Sealy, Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, Lawrence Wishart (2019)
Deborah Willis** Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, W. W. Norton & Company (2002)
**Deichman Collection