ENDLESS REPRODUCTION by Melanie Stidolph
210 x 280mm, 84 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, Edition of 300, 2022
The photographs were made during the years I was unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant. When I looked back into the hundreds of images, I realised there was an unexpected layer of synchronicity with the images I was making and my lived experience. The images echo a hopeful beginning to a journey, take in medical interventions and track a belief that eventually fades. We start in nature, shift through domestic interiors, and come to rest in a no-man’s land of studio and darkroom interiors.
The photographs in the book were taken with automatic camera triggers that fire the shutter in response to changes in movement, sound or light; giving control over to the equipment and the subject. 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.
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