Let's Get Lost
an illuminated selection
by Mike Chisholm
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About the Book
The original, complete book is a relatively plain 116 pages, containing a series of "postcards", topographic photographs extracted from my backfiles, arranged into pairs, and sequenced around six simple, "liveable" questions ("Where On Earth Am I?", "How Did I Get Here?", "Are We Lost Yet?", etc.). For this smaller selection, I chose to embed each pair of facing photographs into a single unifying "illuminated" two-page frame, an approach that suggested itself when creating the twelve images for my 2021 calendar. The pages are presented in the order that they are found in the complete, sequenced book, with their original page numbers, but without the schematic framework of the six questions.
Are these decorative pages a reframing of those original questions, or do they constitute a seventh, more opaque question written in "a very foreign language"? Who knows? But if you're happy to join me on this photographic dérive, then let's get lost.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: US Letter, 8.5×11 in, 22×28 cm
# of Pages: 56 - Publish Date: Oct 19, 2020
- Language English
About the Creator
Mike Chisholm is an independent artist-photographer, based in Southampton, UK. Mike was born and raised in Stevenage, a New Town 30 miles north of London. He was educated at local state schools, then studied at Balliol College Oxford, the University of East Anglia, and University College London. For thirty years he worked as a librarian in the higher education sector (Bristol and Southampton universities) but now concentrates on photographic and writing projects. In recent years he has exhibited his photographs, digital images, and bookworks internationally in several one-man and group shows. His blog, IDIOTIC HAT, is widely read and regarded by many as a must-read source of photographic inspiration, ironic wisdom and amusement. Or so he says.