Sverre Strandberg - Not Alone
Utgitt: 2024
Forlag: Sverres Zine
Sideantall: 224
ISBN: 978-82-690786-4-0
Opplag: 500
Not Alone contains license-free images from all over the world, downloaded from various digital image-sharing platforms. These images, often used as illustrations in content production, significantly impact how the world is visualized in media, despite their lower status as photographs. What makes an image generic, and what arises when sorting and assembling such imagery? How will the photographic medium be shaped as digital technology makes it even easier to share, recycle and create “reality”? During the festival, Strandberg’s book can be exchanged for a photo taken by the buyer. This encourages the further circulation of photographs in an eternal metamorphic loop.
Sverre Strandberg (f.1977) is a photographer working across mediums with a focus on photography and publication. Strandberg's main area of interest is the intersection between the generic and the unique: the matrix of local-meeting-global. He is concerned about how present day market economy alienates relationships between humans and objects and and occludes the idea of being independent and responsible, and the representational value of photography is thus also investigated and processed in his art.
