OBJEKTIV PRESS 15 YEARS!

This photograph by Tom Sandberg is featured in Making Worlds, Objektiv #22, written by Morten Andenæs.

Founded in 2009, Objektiv began as a biannual journal dedicated to lens-based art. The very first issue was released in April 2010. After a decade of exploring that format, Objektiv transitioned into a more book-like publication, inviting a single writer to fill its pages with raw and authentic reflections on trends within the medium. Objektiv Press have just released Elle Pérez’s the movement of our bodies, a collage of loose thoughts, letters, press articles and reviews, text messages, pictures, sketches, responses, emails, notes, and lectures, the book explores what Pérez chooses to photograph and what photography means to them. More here. 

Objektiv Press’ next release is in the works. The book Double will accompany the exhibition of the same title with Carol Newhouse and Carmen Winant for this year’s edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. Through Carmen Winant’s exploration of radical reinvention—particularly within the context of the lesbian separatist communities of the 1970s—she connected with Carol Newhouse, co-founder of WomanShare, a lesbian feminist community on the West Coast of the United States. For Double, they’ve created unique new work that weaves together their stories, passions, and curiosities. Over the course of a year, they engaged in a photographic dialogue: one would shoot a roll of film, wind it up, and send it across the country, where the other would expose it again—using the technique of double exposure to create a layered interplay between their images. More information here.

Since the very first issue in 2010, Objektiv has asked a wide range of people to describe the image they can’t stop thinking about. Originally titled Sinnbilde, this column now appears on Objektiv Press' web journal under the name Afterimage. It is an ekphrastic series about that one image you see when you close your eyes, the one still lingering in your mind.

Objektiv Press extends heartfelt thanks to everyone who has contributed so far — the artists, the writers, the copy editors, the designers, the printers, the supporting foundations, and all the members of our editorial board, especially Lucas Blalock, Ida Kierulf, Brian Sholis and Susanne Østby Sæther. Most of all, thank you to our readers.