“On a functional level, and trying to remove myself from the subjects involved, what “Billie” does besides pull on your emotions is to punish photography in a small way…”
'The systematic observation of a loved one is enshrined by a pathos clearly delineated between the two primary parties through the observer’s need to document and this testament can only be present in supreme regard within the operating capacity in which his love or fascination with the subject can be commented on within the act of recording. A muse born. And her acceptance and return can be made clear by her musings of his requests. The radiating bounce of light between frames of moments fleeting act as a catalyst from which memory of “when we” will spring forward at a later date and the observer himself will be defined through the act of accumulating glances. These observances desire to explicitly condition the two into an entangled format in which their relationship to one another is cemented with light sensitive embraces. And thus begins the testament of love affairs that lie dormant in boxes of memories if not in celluloid.'
Brad Feuerhelm - Billie: Before Our Limbs Soften- ASX
Comprised exclusively of half-frame 35mm photographs, Billie utilizes sequence, progression and repetition to focus its gaze towards a single subject.
Presented within a matter-of-fact layout and spare design, the images appear as grainy documents while exploring the collision of portraiture, identity, authorship and cinematic fiction.
Edition of 600 - Out of Print
Designed by Common Name
Skinnerbooks
2017
