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Ongoing Project
It is well known that globally we produce a huge amount of garbage but we also generate an enormous amount of image garbage. Every day millions of photographic images are being produced, shared, ignored, discarded and forgotten. The photographic image exists in a state of continual flux. through our increasing deployment of multiple captures, bursts, post-production edits, and our prolific sharing. Currently, it's often not about what we take pictures of, but about the act of taking pictures.
Katrin Korfmann's research project centres on the photographic image as waste. Through ‘Wastescapes’, she asks how visual, conceptual and technical aspects of her work as a photographer can be used to critically reflect on the Wasteocene. Her research takes her into the field, to visit numerous waste processing plants, but also deeper into her own practice and her studio, where she experiments with artistic methods to generate other forms of the photographic image, through the juxtaposition and entanglement of waste processing procedures and variants of image production, editing and manifestation.
WastescapesAmsterdam Recycling Plant (The Other Wheel) Size: 130 x 90 cm, 51”x 35”
Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print
Year: 2020
WastescapesRotterdam Recycling Plant, PlasticSize: 237 x 300 cm, 93” x 118 “
Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print
Year: 2020
WastescapesRoermond Recycling Plant, MetalSize: 60x107 cm, 24”x 42”
Material: Lasercut sublimation print on aluminum
Year: 2020
WastescapesAmsterdam Recycling Plant, The Wheel Size: 150 x 164 cm, 43”x 28”
Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print
Year: 2020
WastescapesRoermond Recycling Plant, Metal MountainSize: 138x110 cm, 54”x 43”
Material: Lasercut sublimation print on aluminum
Year: 2020
WastescapesFast Fashion, AssenSize: 280 x 397 cm, 110”x 156”
Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print
Year: 2021
Wastescapes
Installation view
WastescapesFreezersSize: 100 x 145 cm, 39” x 57”
Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print
Year: 2022
WastescapesGlassSize: 100 x 100 cm, 39” x 39”
Material: Lasercut sublimation print on glass
Year: 2022
Wastescapes
Fast Fashion
Installation 2021
Wastescapes
Roermond
Installation 2021
Wastescapes
The Other Wheel
Installation 2021
Website: Research Symposium Fault Lines Fault Lines 2021 Research SymposiumFault Lines 2020 Research Symposium
Ongoing Project
It is well known that globally we produce a huge amount of garbage but we also generate an enormous amount of image garbage. Every day millions of photographic images are being produced, shared, ignored, discarded and forgotten. The photographic image exists in a state of continual flux. through our increasing deployment of multiple captures, bursts, post-production edits, and our prolific sharing. Currently, it's often not about what we take pictures of, but about the act of taking pictures.
Katrin Korfmann's research project centres on the photographic image as waste. Through ‘Wastescapes’, she asks how visual, conceptual and technical aspects of her work as a photographer can be used to critically reflect on the Wasteocene. Her research takes her into the field, to visit numerous waste processing plants, but also deeper into her own practice and her studio, where she experiments with artistic methods to generate other forms of the photographic image, through the juxtaposition and entanglement of waste processing procedures and variants of image production, editing and manifestation.