Fig. Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin

"Styleistically, they [Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin] avoid the overtly creative, opting instead for a paired down, formal approach bordering on neutrality"

Take the book Fig. Now I really think this is a great book, and hearing the authors speak has only confirmed to me that they are onto something new, they're breaking conventions and they're a smart pair. But I hardly ever pick up the book.

Does theory overwhelm me? Do I need to cognitise pain and suffering and injustice to renew it's effect on me? This covert description of suffering is still feeble, humans will do what they do, we don't need a conceptual memorial, we just need the killing, and therefore the recording of it, to stop.

Picture 01 - Room 202, Hotel Des Mille Collines, Kigali, Rwanda, Picture 02 - Heather Models 1, London UK

Yet there is more beauty in the passport blandness of the image on the right than anything to be found in Vogue. While there is no artifice in the technique, at least we can say that nature itself ignored such constraints entirely in the case of this girl and for a brief respite we can daydream

2 March 2009 - 11:11pm — Admin