Published by Ephemere Tokyo, the book Framing the World by Kinga Owczennikow explores photographs with frames inside the boundaries of the images: how these internal frames sharpen viewers’ understanding and appreciation of photographs – and of the world. The project starts small and widen out in four chapters like the components of a conventional frame.
In Kinga Owczennikow’s photographs, internal frames can attract and resist, reveal or deceive, imply their own limitations. Even imply viewers’ limitations, the cognitive frames through which they process the world. If at first glance the photographs seem humble and simple, the internal frames invite second thoughts and questions: Why the internal frame? What about its placement? What does the frame imply about the subject – and viewers’ possible responses? The photographs are both documentary and subtly, sometimes even sneakily postmodern: self-referring and meta-photographic.
Throughout Framing the World, photographs are almost always presented in pairings meant to create instructive contrast or analogies. But there are also three sequences of images: the eight-photo, the eight-storey pandemic story of ascension; a series of blank then filled frames that could be titled “The Triumph of Nature” and the narrative sequence that makes up the last chapter which could be seen as the “The Triumph of Nature II”.
Kinga Owczennikow : Framing the World
Ephemere Tokyo
Text: Tom LeClair
Book design: Federico Zavatta (Contrast Design)
First Edition: 100 copies
Size: W18.2 x H25.7cm [B5]
Perfect Binding, 68 pages, front cover with cut-out
ISBN : 978-4-911596-03-5
Price: 39.00 USD
The book is available at:
https://www.ephemere.tokyo/publications/p/framing-the-world
