09/08/2023
OUT NOW: Gravity by Aapo Huhta
Aapo Huhta's book Gravity presents a collection of black and white studio portraits of human figures and shapes combined with imagery of mummified remains from late 16th-century Sicily. In these gently surreal scenes, human bodies float, enveloped in grainy textures from chemical residues and light leaks. By photographing and rephotographing through transparent and reflective objects, Huhta transforms the figures into contorted human-like creatures. He also manipulates the interaction of film, developer, and overly expired photographic paper by hand and re-establishes the unpredictability into a process that is commonly sought to be controlled.
The catalyst for the work Gravity was a change in identity that happened after becoming a parent. The result is a subjective interpretation of the complexity and fragility of human life and an intuitive response toward the unknown.
Embossed double-folded softcover
Pamphlet stitch binding
56 pages
Monotone and tritone offset printing
22.5 x 27.5 cm
First edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-91-987606-7-5
Designed by Heikki Kaski and Aapo Huhta
Read more at https://www.kultbooks.com/books/gravity
