Void 2024 ISBN 9786185479350 Acqn 36256 Hb 21x26cm 176pp col ills £53.50
For Vic Bakin, 'Epitome' is a fairly personal visual journey, an attempt to look at some things more than once. It is also an elaboration on the consequences and entanglements of war for a young generation of Ukrainian men. The series consists of pictures shot in war-torn places he visited between 2022 and 2023, as well as pictures printed from his own archive of previous years. While navigating the wounded land, he looks for a glimmer of hope in people and places. The prints, produced by Bakin in his bathroom in Kyiv during the Russian air raids, convey a distinct, delicate black-and-white tactility that resonates with the historical images from other wars in the past.
Void 2024 ISBN 9786185479343 Acqn 36257 Pb 23x29cm 168pp col ills £58
In 1667 a 12-year-old girl, Gertrud Svensdotter, was accused of walking on water in Alvdalen, Sweden. This event marked the beginning of the Swedish witch-hunts, a period of mass hysteria and horror in Alvdalen and its neighbouring regions. The book 'Gertrud' by artist Maja Daniels uses photography to reconfigure the history and myth of these events, igniting a contemporary dialogue around Gertrud.
