Katalog 35.2ii
Katalog Journal
Jens Friis
English/Danish
Softcover
96 pages
210 x 250 mm
2024
ISSN 24455067
Issue 35.2ii looks at Tuomo Manninen’s group portraits which document various professions from barbers to balloon vendors. This 30 year project is both documentary and constructed. The professionals were selected along with the planned locations and lighting. The imagery draws attention to the diverse and surprising activities that people of different cities engage in. Regardless of the nature of their work every image share the common goodwill of the subject participation.
About the Journal
KATALOG Journal of Photography and Video is a Denmark-based journal focusing on photography and video.
About the Editor
Jens Friis, an independent curator, photo historian and publisher/editor, holds a Masters in the History of Art with a specialisation in photography. He has been an active member of Gallery Image in Aarhus, Denmark, and for a number of years worked at Hamiltons, a commercial gallery in London, selling photographic art. From 2003-2016, he was a Curator at Museet for Fotokunst in Odense, Denmark, where he oversaw the museum’s photographic collection, and was the Artistic Co-Director of the Danish photo festival FotoTriennale.dk, initiated by the same museum. During that time, he was also Editor-in-Chief of KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video, a magazine supported and published by the museum. KATALOG, which has been independently published by Friis since 2015, is in its 28th successful year. KATALOG is part of Nordic Photo Festival Network and the European collaboration Parallel.
(source: https://collection.photoireland.org/photobooks/katalog-30-1-journal-of-photography-video/)
