The Voyage of Discovery Photographs by Carly Steinbrunn, MACK, London, England, 2015. 96 pp., 8¼ x 10¼”.
Humanity is present through the traces it has left behind, traces that could be those of a remote or vanished civilisation.
[…][The book] is sequenced with pictures I considered ‘archetypal’ to carry a collective iconic memory – such as the historical artefacts, photographed in a simple and direct way. Then I introduced mysterious places, plants or architectural structures to show a more subjective point of view. One of the main questions I had in mind while making this body of work was how might a subjective experience also speak of a collective one? This is partly why I photographed places in Brazil, as an homage to Claude Lévi- Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques.Carly Steinbrunn interview with Paper Journal
Image is part of a portfolio of collotype prints on 29 x 36cm Japanese Washi paper by MACK and the Benrido atelier, Kyoto.
