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Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick
Astres Noirs
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Like a journey crafted with four hands, Astres Noirs is a luminous breakthrough that reveals traces, faces, and the world’s hidden dust.
Astres noirs is the debut book for both Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, artists who live thousands of miles apart whose peculiar photographic wanderings create a hauntingly beautiful dialogue. This book presents photographs taken on mobile phone cameras, devices used to capture their everyday in an impulsive and almost obsessional way, documenting life from their doorsteps to far afield.
Their photographs capture the commonplace such as water stains on asphalt, dust clouds and rays of light, and transform these into mesmerising frames – elusive fragments that evoke an imaginary creature, a milky way, a phosphorescent silhouette…
Presented together, their combined voices lead us on a journey into unexplored territory, somewhere between the everyday and paranormal, between night and day. Amongst enveloping darkness, lightness is revealed, dazzling and miraculously caught by discerning eyes.
She studied documentary photography at the Queensland College of Art, at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). Pursuing intimacy and interconnection, Katrin Koenning's work centres around practice as relational encounter. In her extended image-dialogues, Katrin uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces and communities that are fluid and multiplicit
Sarker Protick’s work frequently build the narrative around the trope of change; momentary stillness, fleeting light, elemental origins of a place. To make the decaying memory tangible, to define disappearing history of a place without confining it, Protick’s often minimal, suspended and atmospheric visuals are coherently open with vast and solemn distance.
Concept and editing: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi & Vasantha Yogananthan
Graphic design: Atelier Pentagon
168 pages
79 duotone plates
16 cm x 22 cm
Section-sewn hardcover
English / French
Publication date: 31 May 2016
ISBN: 978-2-9548777-2-3
