GUP#54 – Playful
GUP#54 - The Playful Issue (August 2017). Cover by Nastia Cloutier-Ignatiev.
Klaus Pichler: This Will Change Your Life Forever
"Some scientific discoveries have come from looking at something that seems to be – at that moment – irrational and then discovering that it’s not that irrational. So, the earth isn’t flat, it’s a sphere."
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)
Katrin Koenning: Traveling the Limitless Mind
"It’s not my aim to make statements about the idea of distance, but rather to question it. Much of my work is personal and comes from a point of feeling. To me, practice is a means of sense-making, and of being-in-the-world."
—Katrin Koenning (GUP Magazine)
—Katrin Koenning (GUP Magazine)
Jessica Dimmock: Trying to Get Along in Your World
"They’re in a lot of ways trapped not only in male bodies but in male identities. [...]They did a really good job of putting a masculine identity on themselves, because that’s what was dictated. At Esprit, they’re taking it off."
—Jessica Dimmock (GUP Magazine)
—Jessica Dimmock (GUP Magazine)
Book Launch: I Love Animals
I'm very pleased to announce that a new book that I've self-published, I ♥ Animals, has just been released. See more and buy it now, it's yours for only €15!
Connecting
“It’s really hard to form an emotional connection with perfection. We tend to connect to flaws, reading them as personality." Manami Okazaki interviewed me for her article on the story of Holga for a Hong Kong publication.
Lauren Greenfield: The Influence of Affluence
"The effect of seeing affluent lifestyles on television has been proven to a) make people think more people have that kind of lifestyle than really do, so it’s a distorted view of what’s normal but b) it also stimulates desire for those things."
—Lauren Greenfield (John Adams Institute)
—Lauren Greenfield (John Adams Institute)
The Fun of Photobooks
Modern photobooks are all too often the insecure product of an oversaturated marketplace. With so many photographers in the world, many of whom have the idea that publishing a book will confirm their status or identity as a ‘real’ photographer,…