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Website: Research Symposium Fault Lines Fault Lines 2021 Research Symposium Fault 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.


Wastescapes Amsterdam Recycling Plant (The Other Wheel) Size: 130 x 90 cm, 51”x 35” Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print Year: 2020
Wastescapes Rotterdam Recycling Plant, Plastic Size: 237 x 300 cm, 93” x 118 “ Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print Year: 2020
Wastescapes Roermond Recycling Plant, Metal Size: 60x107 cm, 24”x 42” Material: Lasercut sublimation print on aluminum Year: 2020
Wastescapes Amsterdam Recycling Plant, The Wheel Size: 150 x 164 cm, 43”x 28” Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print Year: 2020
Wastescapes Roermond Recycling Plant, Metal Mountain Size: 138x110 cm, 54”x 43” Material: Lasercut sublimation print on aluminum Year: 2020
Wastescapes Fast Fashion, Assen Size: 280 x 397 cm, 110”x 156” Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print Year: 2021
Wastescapes Installation view
Wastescapes Freezers Size: 100 x 145 cm, 39” x 57” Material: Hand-cut archival pigment print Year: 2022
Wastescapes Glass Size: 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 Symposium Fault 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.