Erik Kessels | Storytelling with vernacular photography

The referent of "found photography", Erik Kessels participates in the program of activities for the XX Anniversary of CENDEAC with a conference entitled 'Storytelling with vernacular photography.

Kessels is a Dutch artist, curator and communication designer, with great interest in art and photography. Over the 20 years of his career, Kessels has come to the fore as a main and unquestionable reference in the field of so-called ‘found photography’. Instead of shooting new images, for most of his projects he brings together pre-existent photographs and reuses them as tiles to form his own mosaic. He is an artist without a camera or even a lens: in his practice, photography is a ready-made element to be sampled and re-contextualised. The result is a sort of eco-system of images, through which nothing is added to the enormous quantity of imagery which now crowds out the world and grows exponentially day by day, but which on the contrary merely recoups and recycles that which is already there.
Another subject of the lecture is the role of images in the time we live in and how you can look at these in other ways than simply consuming them.

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Spanish version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EIuatw4El4

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