In Almost Every Picture #12
Erik Kessels
Kesselskramer
English
Text by Christian Bunyan
Softcover
116 pages
155 x 200 mm
2012
ISBN 9789070478377
The moustachioed man with the old school Panasonic is Larbi Laaraichi. He lives in Fez, Morocco, a city where lots of people get married. We can assume this because Larbi has made a career as a wedding cameraman. The images you see in this book are reproductions of advertisements covering the walls in his shop. They are proudly displayed next to Larbi’s filmmaking credentials: a diploma from Kodak, presented on the 26th of May, 1993, in Casablanca. While these images were designed to sell Larbi’s services, they also provide an insight into the man himself.
About the Artist
Erik Kessels was born in 1966; he lives and works in Amsterdam. He has presented numerous exhibitions at Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia (2015), Centquatre-Paris (2014), Les Rencontres d’Arles (2014), the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2013), Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco (2014–15) and the Images – Festival des Arts Visuels in Vevey (2014). He might not shoot pictures himself, but the Dutch art director and collector Erik Kessels has certainly changed the way we think about photography. As a curator of amateur photography, he’s elevated discarded images to gallery status, finding beauty and insight in pictures of, say, 20th century German police uniforms, or one woman’s lifelong love of fairground shooting galleries.
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About the Publisher
KesselsKramer is a company which aspires to do things differently in the field of communications. KesselsKramer Publishing is an extension of this restless attitude. In images and words, it finds new ways of expressing creativity through printed matter.
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