Bizarre by Johnny Welch

By (author): Johnny Welch

Title: Bizarre

Subtitle: Haunted Photographs

Blurb:

Johnny Welch's work brings together several long-running photographic series. The book combines nude and semi-nude portraits of women from Bizarre - an ongoing project inspired by the original fetish magazine - with cross motifs photographed in cemeteries and landscapes gathered from an extensive travel diary dating back to 2012. Through carefully constructed situations, Welch encourages his subjects to step beyond their everyday identities and embody archetypal characters, creating images that explore symbolic and psychological states. The cross motifs are drawn primarily from cemeteries in Germany, as well as sites of personal significance such as Père Lachaise in Paris and Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Working exclusively with analogue film and hand-printing through the silver gelatin process, Welch treats his negatives as part of a growing archive, producing only a small number of prints. The resulting photographs are selected for their strong aura and haunting presence, reflecting an intimate connection to both the subject and the physical process of image-making.

ISBN: 978-87-7620-737-3

Book language: English

Binding: Perfect (PUR) binding

Publishing house: Snap Collective

Website: www.snap-collective.com

Editorial Assistant: Anna Romanovici

Designer: Elena Bidnenko

Published on: in production

Category: Art

Price (€): 89

Keywords: Johnny Welch, analogue photography, silver gelatin prints, photographic series, nude portraiture, semi-nude portraits, fetish aesthetics, archetypes, symbolic imagery, psychological states, cemetery crosses, travel diary, haunting atmosphere, Germany cemeteries, Père Lachaise, Greyfriars Kirkyard, hand-printed photography, analogue film, photographic archive, contemporary photography, adult content