Bob Jones | Fotografiska Berlin

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What is the essence of a selfie? What binds topic to object, human to expertise? In her work 587 Blitze, Berlin-based photographer Bob Jones explores the photographic self-portrait by an intense, radically bodily course of.

For the mission, Jones developed pinhole cameras utilizing a 3D printer, intentionally creating her personal various to traditional image-making apparatuses. Altogether, ten studio flash items have been used, delivering a mixed output of roughly 9,600 watt-seconds.

“Normally, photography barely produces a physical sensation, but at this intensity and in such close proximity to the light sources, the physical effect became immediately noticeable. Several of the flashes contain UV components, and the sheer intensity of the light can even cause sunburn.”

– Bob Jones

Another a part of the work explores the intersection of analog and digital media. The artist took selfies with a smartphone — in darkness, onto massive rolls of photographic paper that have been uncovered within the course of.

“The driving concept was radical simultaneity. At the very moment the smartphone flash inscribes my body onto the paper, my image is simultaneously recorded digitally onto the sensor. I experienced a strange sense of self-multiplication: I am physically present on the paper and already exist as a digital record at the same time.”

– Bob Jones 

CREDITS

The exhibition was curated by Marie-Luise Mayer (Exhibitions Manager at Fotografiska Berlin), in collaboration with the artist, and produced in partnership with IFA Berlin and Volkswagen R, with the sort cooperation of our pictures print accomplice WhiteWall.

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