Book of the day > Judith Stenneken: Illuminate Naturally In Darkness
Book of the day > Judith Stenneken: Illuminate Naturally In Darkness. Self-Published. Text by Robert Montgomery. “A multi-path photobook -- every page is a fold-out page. A visual poem on life's transitory nature. For this project I use metaphors of the journey, the voyager and transitory spaces (for instance hotel rooms and airplanes) to describe transitions as the sole constant in life. The concepts of departure and arrival dissolve as the traveler keeps moving - a gravity to constant change. The voyager's home becomes the hotel room and the airplane. Spaces to pause but never to dwell.
The images in this photo book refuse to be placed in time or space. They represent moods rather than facts. This book works more like a poem that wants to be re-visited over time. And like a good poem it implies multiple ways to read and interpret it, in this case because of the unique physical structure of the book. In comparison to most photobooks, where the story is predefined by the author (due to a singular sequence), Illuminate Naturally… challenges you to explore its multiple beginnings, middles and ends in order to find your own story in it. You essentially become the co-author within the environment that I have established.”