Undev. (2016)
Emulsion stores its memory in latent images. Time passes, and the information sits there, qiuetly, in the film’s “subconscious”, without revealing itself. In some cases, it would sit there for years on end, so that even the person who once made sure the memory is preserved has no recollection of having done that. As fate should have it, these non-existent images can either see the light of day, or never be born at all.
© Photo Pavel Kosenko, 1984–1989
© Films developing Pavel Kosenko, 1984–2015
© Films scanning Pavel Kosenko, 2014–2015
© Supervised by SREDA Creative Lab, 2016
© Printed by Nemakulatura, Moscow, 2016
The "Undev." book was included in the short-list of the INFOCUS Photobooks Exhibition 2016 (Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA), was presented at The Photobook Exhibition (Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece), "Special Edition. Photobook in Russia" (Metenkov House Photo Museum, Ekaterinburg), "Books that are" (GRAUND Peschanaya, Moscow), "Photobookfest" (Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow), "Superobook" (KCSI "Typography", Krasnodar).
