26.01.18
Louise Bøgelund Saugmann
Blankt Papir Press
English
Accordion style fold out, in individual handmade box.
Handmade edition of 72
60 x 240 mm in box
ISBN Not available
In her book, 26.01.18 photographic artist Louise Bøgelund Saugmann investigates breathing with the trees.
As an asthmatic child, she was confined to her bed for days unable to breathe properly. Ever since, Bøgelund Saugmann has had an urge to create photographic spaces, where there is room to breathe – both concretely and in a metaphorical sense. In her search for a place to be at peace and to fully breathe, she started regularly visiting the same forest in the Copenhagen outskirts (Pinseskoven). It is said that Pinseskoven once upon a time planted itself from seeds that flew from across the water in Sweden. Today the mythical forest is protected, as it contains and sustains animal and plant life not seen anywhere else in Denmark.
Bøgelund Saugmann continued to visit the forest for the next six years, and with every visit she would make 12 photographs of the same scene with trees, sitting in the same position on a rock with her medium format camera. She would then use the analogue photographic process of layering one image upon another as her method for collecting the passage of time, imagining that each individual, layered photographic piece was a breath from the forest.
Bøgelund Saugmann has spent countless hours on her rock in the forest as well as in her workspace scanning and layering the photographs. In the world we live in today, when everything often goes very fast, 26.01.18 offers a welcomed respite for you to slow down and breathe with the trees.
26.01.18 shows one of many days spent in the forest. Including all the layers, it contains 144 photographs. It is the first of two books that together complete Bøgelund Saugmann’s project 55˚35’12.8”N 12˚32’56.2”E (Quiet by nature). The second part is to be published later this year and will complement 26.01.18. Together they form a complete unit.
(source: http://thelibraryproject.ie/collections/international-art-books/products/26-01-18-louise-bogelund-saugmann)
About the Artist
Louise Bøgelund Saugmann is a Danish photography- based artist, who lives and works in Copenhagen. Her artistic practice is driven by a love for the photographic medium. She works primarily analogue, and is interested in what photography can and does. With a minimalistic style and muted colour palette, she creates photographic spaces, where the starting point often is the personal story, which is extended to more universal issues. Central themes in her artistic work are silence, time and the maladapted/-adjusted.
She graduated from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth with Honours First Class and have since then worked as an artist, teacher and curator. She is co-founder of the artist-run exhibition space KONTORprojects. Her photographic work has been exhibited at museums, galleries and festivals such as; Museum of art in public spaces, KØS (DK), Center of Photography (DK), Photographic Gallery Hippolyte (FI) and Landskrona Foto Festival (SE).
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About the Publisher
Blankt Papir is an artistic platform focused on running workshops, books, and publishing, creativity and simplicity. Blankt Papir Press is their micro publisher who publishes the photo books The Year, Copenhagen 2018 , and in collaboration with photo artists publishes small print of photographic, handmade artist books
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