The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow by Sean Lotman
Memory has a fascinating way of formulating narrative. We believe we recall something as it happened only to find evidence that events were in fact rather different. I’m intrigued by the flaw of misremembered pasts. I wanted to give form to this bewilderment in my photo book, The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow. Comprising 95 photographs drawn from twenty countries, shot over the span of 15 years, all of them handmade darkroom color prints taken with a Diana f+ toy camera, the images feel rooted out from any discernible reality, akin to recollected dreams (which have the same eerie elusiveness of long-past moments). The book is designed in three parts, with a split binding in Parts I & III, so that the reader becomes a collaborator, mixing and matching different sets of photographs in a kind of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure experience. Thus, every time you engage with the book, your reading of it will be unique depending on how you arrange the book’s flaps, reminding the reader that our understanding of things evolves with time and nothing is quite like we remember it.
Published by The M Editions and IBASHO Gallery in Paris, 2021, edition of 490.
All books will be signed by the artist.
NOTE: this edition will ship directly from Kyoto, Japan. Please allow an appropriate amount of time for delivery.
10% discount available when all three Sean Lotman editions are purchased together. Discount will show in your cart.
Memory has a fascinating way of formulating narrative. We believe we recall something as it happened only to find evidence that events were in fact rather different. I’m intrigued by the flaw of misremembered pasts. I wanted to give form to this bewilderment in my photo book, The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow. Comprising 95 photographs drawn from twenty countries, shot over the span of 15 years, all of them handmade darkroom color prints taken with a Diana f+ toy camera, the images feel rooted out from any discernible reality, akin to recollected dreams (which have the same eerie elusiveness of long-past moments). The book is designed in three parts, with a split binding in Parts I & III, so that the reader becomes a collaborator, mixing and matching different sets of photographs in a kind of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure experience. Thus, every time you engage with the book, your reading of it will be unique depending on how you arrange the book’s flaps, reminding the reader that our understanding of things evolves with time and nothing is quite like we remember it.
Published by The M Editions and IBASHO Gallery in Paris, 2021, edition of 490.
All books will be signed by the artist.
NOTE: this edition will ship directly from Kyoto, Japan. Please allow an appropriate amount of time for delivery.
10% discount available when all three Sean Lotman editions are purchased together. Discount will show in your cart.
Memory has a fascinating way of formulating narrative. We believe we recall something as it happened only to find evidence that events were in fact rather different. I’m intrigued by the flaw of misremembered pasts. I wanted to give form to this bewilderment in my photo book, The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow. Comprising 95 photographs drawn from twenty countries, shot over the span of 15 years, all of them handmade darkroom color prints taken with a Diana f+ toy camera, the images feel rooted out from any discernible reality, akin to recollected dreams (which have the same eerie elusiveness of long-past moments). The book is designed in three parts, with a split binding in Parts I & III, so that the reader becomes a collaborator, mixing and matching different sets of photographs in a kind of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure experience. Thus, every time you engage with the book, your reading of it will be unique depending on how you arrange the book’s flaps, reminding the reader that our understanding of things evolves with time and nothing is quite like we remember it.
Published by The M Editions and IBASHO Gallery in Paris, 2021, edition of 490.
All books will be signed by the artist.
NOTE: this edition will ship directly from Kyoto, Japan. Please allow an appropriate amount of time for delivery.
10% discount available when all three Sean Lotman editions are purchased together. Discount will show in your cart.