"Pose" (na STET), uma fotógrafa holandesa no Uganda: Andrea Stultiens

	Pose, Ugandan Images Photography and text: Andrea Stultiens Graphic Design: Andrea Stultiens i.c.w. Marloes de Laat Wire Stitched, 56 pages, 17.2x23.7 cm English ISBN 9789460830303 See all the images as panorama's in the album €15,-- (Netherlands), €17,50 (Europe), €19,50 (outside Europe) look inside http://www.post-editions.com Most Ugandans are unable to take a holiday. But it is possible for them to have photos taken with a better world in the background once a year. Pose (Ugandan Images) shows us the photo studios of East-African Uganda as places where one can escape from reality for a short while. In this book, the reader can reconstruct the small studio space by folding out panoramic photos. Pose shows us what we are made to see, rather than what the world actually looks like. Or not? In 2009, Andrea Stultiens received the Bouw in Beeld prize for Pose. On the occasion of the exhibition and the publication of The Kaddu Wasswa Archive, her work Pose is now published in a notebook size (cahier). http://www.anotherafrica.net: "Xanadu, Where Are You?" Written by Another Africa on Jul 10, 2011 in Photography

Dutch artist and photographer, Andrea Stultiens takes a look at this particular juncture of portraiture photography and fantastical backdrops as found in the East African nation of Uganda in her book titled Pose (Ugandan Images). At first look the images appear nostalgic and soft, with a texture similar to photos that have aged with time and exposure. However, her photographs speak to the deeper issue of socio-economics, of the haves and the have nots. About how people who are unable to take vacations, resort to portraiture to transport themselves to their idyllic holiday spot, by the river, overlooking the sea etc. for that touristy snapshot that they can look on throughout the year.
Desire regardless of what form it takes is something influenced by our environment. Stultiens focuses on this area, this space where we take control of that environment and how we then “mould it into a fictional variant of ‘real life’ “and use photography to document it for posterity. ‘Pose’ is quite subtle yet very effective in beautifully illustrating this need to create a dream version of life that somehow looks more pretty.


trazido da Stet: uma descoberta

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