Kayla Linda Kasarherou

Wandering as meditation Kayla Linda Kasarherou BFA Hons Photo Media 34 Inkjet prints Various sizes 2024 Everyone can meditate. Waiting at a bus stop, in a small and quiet room, or during breaks. Meditation is known to make people more self-aware, focusing on the present, improving their mental and emotional health. It is accessible anywhere, to the point that meditation can be linked to wandering. That is, to wider explorations via walking. Meditation is where people do not know how to start, how to go about it, but as they start walking that is, meditating, they come to realise deeper meaning of their practice, and they feel enriched at the end. Wandering as meditation explores busyness and tranquility in the city. Going to different places without knowing where you are going leads to a place of being lost but at the same time being happy to get lost in order to be present. Feeling quite uncertain when moving around a new place you find yourself in and there is always some surp...

https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/a-conversation-with-wolfgang-tillmans = A Conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans How did you decide which images to include in your installation? This isn’t a thesis piece—it doesn’t have a literal narrative that can be explained from A to Z. Very early on, I became interested in thematizing the object of the photograph, as well as our relationship to surfaces, to the visual world as we experience it through our eyes, in both a sensual and conceptual way. It is very much about being in the world as people, as bodies, covered in textiles and skin; there’s a membrane between our inner selves and the outer world. Your installations are often attached to the wall in varied ways: some works are framed and others are mounted using tape or clips. Why do you use that approach? It may initially seem endlessly varied, but in fact it’s not. There is a very distinct and strict number of techniques that I use to bring pictures to the wall. But they have de...

https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/wolfgang-tillmans/ = The Ultimate Guide to Wolfgang Tillmans The photographer is renowned for his innovative printing techniques, progressing from traditional darkroom methods to experimentations with old photocopiers. Tillmans often takes influence from accidents and complications that arise when printing, and went as far as to celebrate his mistakes with a 60 page Parkett edition featuring dirt traces and silver salt stained images on exposed paper. Taking pleasure from the accidental, the photographer uses what others might see as oversights as a chance to investigate his practice. Preoccupied by content rather than technique, Tillmans snapshot aesthetic and lack of compliance to photographic rules means that he is not part of the tradition of fine-art photography. Citing early photographers as his influences, he mentions Weegee as a serious inspiration – his early black and white “documentation of the collateral damage of fashion” in the ravi...

My inspiration is Wolfgang Tillmans's installation strategy. https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/11554= Wolfgang Tillmans Guggenheim Installation For Tillmans, the images are only half the work; the installation or layout constitutes its completion. He affixes his prints directly to the wall with pins or tape, juxtaposing old and new images of varying sizes and mediums. He eschews standard darkroom procedures, blurring the lines between color and black and white (printing black-and-white images on color paper, for instance). Color photographs are placed next to inkjet prints and next to postcards and magazine clippings of his own images, contesting conventional hierarchies of scale and subject matter while drawing focus to the materiality of the photographic medium—all within a carefully composed environment that seems to disdain permanency. https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/wolfgang-tillmans/ = The Ultimate Guide to Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans has pioneered a pre...

https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/exhibition/nothing-is-as-it-seems-harvey-benge-photobooks = Nothing Is As It Seems: Harvey Benge Photobooks My interest lies in the strange anthropology of cities, observing and making photographs of the unusual and overlooked in the human landscape where nothing is as it seems. – Harvey Benge Harvey Benge (born 1944) is a New Zealand photographer who lives and works in Auckland and Paris. Benge's work most often takes the form of limited edition photobooks and he recently donated the 60 publications displayed in this exhibition to the E H McCormick Research Library. The photobooks are published by Benge's imprint FAQEDITIONS as well as specialist publishers Dewi Lewis in the UK, Kehrer Verlag in Germany and Super Labo in Japan, among others. Benge has collaborated with well-known international photographers such as Daido Moriyama to produce multi-volume photobook sets and has worked with a number of writers to create book works ...

https://www.artshousetrust.co.nz/current-exhibitions/harvey-benge-the-pah-homestead = Harvey Benge: The Pah Homestead In March 2013 photographer Harvey Benge made a series of seven sumptuous black and white images of the Pah Homestead and its surrounds. Six of the photographs present the Pah Homestead in its beautifully arcadian Monte Cecilia Park setting. The seventh photograph, taken from Cornwall Park, shows the Pah Homestead in the distance, reflecting on the the building's presence within the broader community. Treated in black and white, the images could have made a century ago or only last week. The works celebrate the Pah Homestead as a place of art, presenting the building and its setting as artworks in their own right. I'm a Mt Roskill boy and I remember, with a sense of mystery, the Pah Homestead as I cycled about the area delivering prescriptions for a long gone Pharmacy at Three Kings. These pictures are about the past and how it informs the present. Har...