Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
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This book will be presented in Milan in the presence of the author, on the occasion of the first ProgresFestival:
Progressive - Street and Art - PhotoFestival,
Thursday 6 October at 18:00 at gli eroici furori gallery, Via Melzo, 30.
Between reality and fantasy, photography as a novel: here is Keef Charles recreating once again the spirit of survival. This time however, in his third book, the photographer becomes the artist telling of heroic resistance, with images that reveal drama, suspense, and decision. He reveals the emotional faces of men, women, the elderly and children, with striking black and white and powerful overlays to express the suffering. The images, many built around piercing cinematic looks, transmit the humanism of photography when used as a social medium.
We can say that Charles has created photographic images of resistance against oblivion, some even in colour, to depict more vividly the hope that history must never abandon us. Perhaps Charles shows us the true nature of the camera, composing the portrait of a difficult, unforgettable time, to offer us a comparison of the past and present, through suggestion, allure and disguise.
Batsceba Hardy
The two souls of a photographer: despair and hope, a documentarian and creator, a pragmatist and dreamer. Charles reveals his poetic self to us. Words and images interwoven.
In my original project – Brief Encounter – I wanted to explore people’s nostalgia, looking back on war as a safe memory, but this wasn’t enough. I was drawn back to those events, those shots. I wanted to understand better what it was they felt so nostalgic about. I felt compelled to create images that told of the suffering, without being partisan. I set out to create images powerful enough to convey the desperation, something that moved people (hopefully) without being overly graphic. I wanted to immerse myself in the happenings, the emotions, to better understand a country’s need to hark back to something so insular and long gone, rather than look forward to a more collective future. But, as with all things, I wanted to portray a rounded picture, a lifting up of the head from the gloom, a sense of optimism and the knowing that we will prevail.
Keef Charles
