New photo book – Oblivion. From the website:
Oblivion takes its cue from the text of the same name by the French anthropologist Marc Augé. He writes: “We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. [...] Oblivion is the life force of memory and remembrance its product.”
This project takes Augé’s consideration of the role of oblivion in our forming of memories and applies it to a familiar form of photo essay – the road trip. Since the first portable cameras, photographers have delighted in travelling through landscapes, searching for pictures that catch the eye and interpreting the flow of images with varying degrees of narrative intention. In all such projects, however, oblivion is the driving force: it’s present in the images that are not selected, what is omitted from the frame, what is not seen and ignored. It’s present in the very fact that you, the viewer, were not there when the photograph was taken.
Pick up a copy of the book at gum.co/oblivion – and pay what you want to pay, with low postage.