∴Serial Music Update #3∴

In story form

Over the course of 2024 I’m putting together 12 photo booklets featuring pairs of images made here in Korea. I’ll release one a month from the start of 2025. This project is called Serial Music.

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I ended the last update on my photo project Serial Music by saying that I hadn’t really explained what got me started on it, but that I would in number #3. In fact, I made a whole video about how this project started, and how it’s coming together.

What you don’t see is the tripod desperately squeezed into place between my thighs.

The video starts with this guy talking about how a couple years ago it felt like his photo practice was needing a change.

So he bought a 35mm camera and started walking around unfamiliar neighbourhoods.

The video introduces the visual metaphor of a plant that’s not growing any more.

We even get to see things from the plant’s point of view.

For a while he shot pretty broadly, to varying results.

Some of it came out well. Some came out not so well. Some of it was just weird.

But it seemed like there was something in the photos worth pursuing.

After a few years and about 3500 photos he started printing 4x6s…

…and sticking them up on this old mirror he’d found.

That’s when he noticed something:

And so for 2024 he’d be working on growing this project.

The video closes with a commitment to making 12 booklets of these images, ready to be released, one a month, from January 2025…

…and a slightly needy bit of rhetoric saying it’d be cool if you were along for the ride.

I hope you enjoy it. I’ll do my best to make sure everything that follows is useful for you.

Cheers,

Chris.