Here’s a series we’ve been meaning to check out at Zineland for some time.
In Detritus, a 16-page paper journal limited to a 100 copies and whose fifth issue has just been released (the first was in 2012), Irish artist David O’Mara explores his own relationship to detritus, the rejected and the abandoned.
Found photographs and negatives, while wanderings through the condemned neighborhoods near Heygate Estate in south London, sheets of paper and text found in the street, and other nuggets collected by O’Mara make up the issues of Detritus..
O’Mara demonstrates a clear sense of graphic design, which could make Detritus just one more entry in the field of self-published vernacular photography. But we are drawn in by the faces drenched in motor oil and the mysterious messages on found sheets of paper.
Detritus raises the question of our disposable world. It shows that even photography has no hold on these pieces of planned obsolescence. And all that we hope for these faces and walls, which seem to cry out for it, is a quiet return to oblivion.
Detritus
16 pages, 35×28,9cm
100 signed and numbered copies
10 €
