COLLATERAL IMAGE
(001 – 020)
2020 – 2025

Collateral Images emerge thanks to a chance intervention in the production process of the printed newspaper. During high-speed printing, cutting, folding and binding, pages sometimes shift relative to each other. As a result, part of a photo may end up in a different place than intended. A strip of the photograph disappears, only to reappear elsewhere in the gutter of the section as a new image. This is how Collateral Images are formed: images that are not created with artistic intent, but whose existence is discovered. A serendipity.

With the digitisation of the newspaper, more is lost than the smell of printing ink and the crackling of paper. The possibility of letting your eyes wander over the pages and stumbling upon something you would otherwise have remained unaware of disappears. In the digital newspaper, there is no world outside the tunnel through which the algorithm guides the reader, no coincidence, no serendipity, no Collateral Image.

Digital prints on cardboard
9 – 14 x 280 cm

Limited edition of 9