Book: Endless Reproduction

£30

Book: 21 x 28 cm

Printed: 2022. Edition 300

Design: www.shiningstudio.com

Endless Reproduction was launched in World Childless Week 2022. I was in conversation with Dr Olga Smith at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in Nov 2022 and the book was featured in The Guardian in February 2023 – Trying to conceive, a photographic journey in pictures.

The photographs were made during the years I was unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant. When I looked back at the hundreds of images I had been making, I realised there was an unexpected layer of synchronicity with the photographs and my lived experience. The photographs in the book echo the stages in my life; a hopeful beginning and faith in nature, moving through medical interventions and a belief that eventually fades. The photographs start in nature, shift through domestic rooms, and come to rest in a no-man’s land of studio and darkroom interiors.

I used automatic camera triggers that fired the shutter in response to changes in movement, sound or light. In Endless Reproduction birds document the human nest, apples photograph themselves falling up trees and balls hang in clusters in front of our vision while futile and wrong-headed experiments flash intermittently in the dark.

‘It’s a little bit like talking a little bit quietly, lowering the tone of your voice. Looking at your images, there is someone speaking very softly and I have to tune in and pay attention, but if you catch the attention of that one person that is willing to listen, that’s very beautiful’. Paola Paleari, Curator

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