Belfast
Krass Clement
RRB Photobooks
English
Hardcover
First Edition
144 pages
205 x 265 mm
2022
ISBN 9781838268398
In 1991, Krass Clement travelled to Ireland at the invitation of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, a trip which resulted in Clement’s best known publication Drum. Clement spent several weeks in Ireland applying his philosophy of process to each of the places he visited, most notably Dublin and Belfast, published now for the first time.
Clement’s process remained the same for his time in Belfast, he moved through the city turning his lens on the faces and landscapes he found there; the children going to school, the shop fronts and the windows of private homes, the moments of open space between buildings. Yet in Belfast, the mood is different, not by design or by a change in approach but by the nature of the subject. Belfast in 1991 had seen decades of conflict, the ceasefire of 1994 still some years away, which, coupled with the decline of the ship building industry and economic policy of the later 20th Century had left great areas of Belfast in urgent need of regeneration. British soldiers wait in the front yards of private homes, children play in derelict-looking streets, Clement moves through them and documents without making judgement; he is not a journalist looking for an angle or a conflict photographer seeking to expose the truth on the ground.
In Belfast, Clement revisits his work over 30 years on, gathering 114 unpublished images and carefully placing then in sequence, offered without caption or comment. Clement’s work invites the viewer to take his place, to spot the lone figure walking through the scene, and provides space for the photographs to be read.
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About the Artist
Born in Copenhagen in 1946, Krass Clement is an autodidact photographer. Graduated as a film director from the Danish Film School in 1973, though continued with photography when it became evident that his future was not to be in film.
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About the Publisher
RRB Publishing is the publishing and distribution arm of RRB Photobooks. Having worked with rare, interesting and out of print photobooks for over 30 years, RRB’s Rudi Thoemmes has also worked with many great photographers, and the idea of publishing their work has never been far from his mind.
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