Stomp
by Jon Carapiet
STOMP explores themes of photographic portraiture and ‘the gaze’ in the context of destruction, questioning how we connect and identify with the other.
The images were made in Europe, India and Egypt since 2014 and began as a personal response to the destruction in Bamiyan and Timbuktu, Palmyra and Aleppo. Such recent manifestations of fascism have 20th Century antecedents in the Holocaust and Armenian genocide, but trace even further back in human consciousness. There is a long history of attempting to erase people from memory.
Stomp seeks to reach beyond a sense of despair and engage our shared humanity. It calls on powers of empathy
The images were made in Europe, India and Egypt since 2014 and began as a personal response to the destruction in Bamiyan and Timbuktu, Palmyra and Aleppo. Such recent manifestations of fascism have 20th Century antecedents in the Holocaust and Armenian genocide, but trace even further back in human consciousness. There is a long history of attempting to erase people from memory.
Stomp seeks to reach beyond a sense of despair and engage our shared humanity. It calls on powers of empathy
Book Information
ISBN:
978-0-9941306-4-8
Publisher:
Rim Books