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Perigee (signed)

by Paul Gaffney

Photographs: Paul Gaffney

Publisher: CNA

Book 1: 68. Book 2: 24 pages

Pictures: Book 1: 25. Book 2: 12

Year: 2017

Price: 79 €

Comments: Book 1: Japanese fold binding, magnetic white vinyl cover, 15,3 cm x 20,3 cm. Book 2: Handmade lay-flat binding, ferrous metal cover, 23 cm x 30,5 cm. Perigee is a set of two photobooks in an edition of 750 copies.

Walking through the Luxembourgish Ardennes, Gaffney documented his wanderings using polaroids. Later, he re-explored certain routes after nightfall, to photograph under the light of the full moon.

Bathed in its soft otherworldly glow, the forest’s narrow steep valleys evoke a mysterious, psychological wilderness, in what is in reality, a highly managed man-made environment.

“Drawn with light that is barely perceptible to the eye, Gaffney’s photographs emerge out of intuition, coincidence, and an underlying longing for connection and stillness. And although it’s tempting to call them landscapes, they are created through different ways of knowing a place – ways that acknowledge the moving, feeling body, rather than the distanced and distancing eye, as the foundation of our experience.” - Eugenie Shinkle

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