Groundworks | Mark Cohen | Superlabo 2024

Groundworks | Mark Cohen | Superlabo 2024"Most of the pictures in this book were made over the last ten years. I walked around the city and took pictures just like I have always done with no preconceived idea of what subjects to select. One picture at a time. Each complete in itself. Forty years ago I worked in the same way and with the same technique of taking a very fast and spontaneous image up into the camera and landing it on the film inside. Some of these pictures from the 1970s are

Yamamoto leaves her previous main shooting location of Eastern Europe to present photos taken on a visit to Malawi in Africa

It seemed the brightest

The cardboard slipcase is sunburned

I took day trips from Cassis to Arles

tin thermos flasks

viscerally personal

Despite being an inorganic entity

together with a palpable erotic tension

as women to a potential other

One hand is bare and one is gloved and the fact of the color film in the camera is almost incidental

These small lives of insects teach me far deeper about the meaning of my lifetime than I could understand myself

Odds and ends leftover from everyday life played a part here as tools