Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, People in Trouble, 2011.
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. Untitled (from 165 portraits with dodgers), 2012.
A dodger is a darkroom tool commonly used to control the exposure of selected areas of an image. The tool, constructed from a piece of cardboard with a handle of copper wire, has an indexical relationship to the photograph for which it is designed: the shape of the card reflects the shape (head, torso, mountaintop) in the photograph that the printer wishes to affect. Here Broomberg & Chanarin have placed the dodger directly against the photographic paper to create "masks."
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, from Dr. Rosenberg's archive.
Broomberg & Chanarin were given the darkroom equipment of a friend's father, Dr. Rosenberg, an anatomist and amateur photographer, after he passed away. Among Rosenberg's belongings they found early color tests. This is Rosenberg himself in a dual role as both photographer and subject (curiously rigged up to electromagnetic-monitoring equipment).
Page from Cahiers du Cinèma, no. 300, May 1979. The caption under the photograph reads: "The Image and Its Secret."
In the late 1970s Jean-Luc Godard was invited to Mozambique to start a television station for the new Marxist government of Samora Michel. Godard famously refused to use Kodak film, claiming that it was inherently racist, and turned to video instead. The project ended in failure and no trace of his video exists. However, Godard guest-edited issue 300 of Cahiers du Cinèma, which he devoted to his diaries from these experiments in Mozambique.
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin: Dora Fobert, 2011,
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, The Brothers Non-Collaborative Portraiture, 2013
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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Everything but despair, from “Prestige of Terror” (2010)
The Prestige of Terror is the title of a manifesto written by the Egyptian surrealist George Henein and published in Cairo, in French, several days after the dropping of the atomic bomb. [more]
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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, The Story of My Death, 2013.
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Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Afterlife, 2009.
The Afterlife series offers a re-reading of a controversial photograph taken in Iran on 6 August 1979. This remarkable image, taken just months after the revolution, records the execution of 11 blindfolded Kurdish prisoners by firing squad. The image, which captures the decisive moment the guns were fired, was immediately reproduced in newspapers and magazines across the world. The following year it was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and for the next 30 years its author was simply known as ‘Anonymous’. Only recently has the photographer’s identity been revealed as Jahangir Razmi, a commercial studio photographer working in the suburbs of Tehran. He was located and interviewed by Joshua Prager of the Wall Street Journal.
Broomberg and Chanarin sought out Razmi and, based on their discussions and along with an examination of the neglected images on the roll of film Razmi produced that day, they present a series of collages – an iconoclastic breakdown or dissection of the original image – that interrupts our relationship as spectators to images of distant suffering.
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin: Ghetto
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Political 1 sheet 19, 2010 C-type print 150 cm x 190 cm Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Untitled (165 portraits with dodgers), Detail, Unique Photographic Hand Prints on Fiber Based Paper, 8 x 10 inches each, 2012