David Salcedo - +

David Salcedo
+

Published by Ediciones Posibles, 2022
Book size 17.5 x 21 cm
Pages, Two groups of 66 pages
Hardcover

As its name suggests, + is the result of a sum, a work whose scenes, a priori unconnected, dialogue with each other from the mystery and poetics of chance to generate again and again new and surprising interpretations.
David Salcedo manages to take "street photography" to another level, questioning the limits of visual narrative through an open edition that values the reader's capacity for interaction, thus showing that the true creative act is his work process.
The book, spiral bound and with all pages split in half, tricks the eye with a diversity of photographs that can be combined in a single image through thousands of possible combinations, turning its reading into a trompe l'oeil, a constant surprise, and a game in which the reader will be irremediably trapped.
After winning the Nuevo Talento Fnac photography award in 2015, + became one of the most anticipated photobooks on the Spanish photographic scene. But it has taken seven years of work to achieve the construction of this complex puzzle.
In the author's own words, "There were moments when I had the impression of being in front of a sea of images, and that same perception is the one that is prolonged in the sequence of the book."
The 66 photographs that make up the book +, when combined, form 1089 diptychs, 256 triptychs and 65,536 quadruptychs. These are numbers that in one publication can be dizzying, astounding, disorienting and surprising. But if they achieve all that, David Salcedo is achieving what he wants, since he is trying to make the readers feel the same vertigo and illusions that the author felt during the process of editing the work. Quite a tribute to that key moment that puts the author on the ropes and is slapped in the face at the same time by the composition, the technique, the subject and, in short, the strange presence that things acquire when they are photographed.
"A drop + a drop is not two drops, it is a bigger drop that is talking about the sea."
David Salcedo

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As its name suggests, + is the result of a sum, of a work whose scenes, a priori unrelated, dialogue with each other based on the mystery and poetics of chance to generate new and surprising interpretations again and again.
David Salcedo manages to elevate "street photography" to another level, challenging the limits of visual storytelling through an open edition that values the reader's capacity for interaction, thus showing that the true creative act is their work process.
The book, spiral-bound and with all its pages divided in two, deceives the eye with a variety of photographs that can be combined into a single image through thousands of possible combinations, transforming its reading into a trompe-l'oeil, a constant surprise and a game in which the reader will be irremediably trapped.
After winning the Nuevo Talento Fnac photography award in 2015, + has become one of the most anticipated photo books in the Spanish photography scene. But it took seven years of work to complete this complex puzzle.
In the author's own words: "There were times when I felt as if I were looking at a sea of images, and it is this same perception that continues in the sequence of the book."
The 66 photographs that make up the book + , once combined, form 1,089 diptychs, 256 triptychs, and 65,536 quadriptychs. Figures that, in a publication, can make one dizzy, astonish, disorient, and surprise. But if they achieve all this, David Salcedo achieves what he wants, as + he tries to make readers feel the same vertigo and illusions that the author experienced during the editing process of the work. A tribute to that key moment that puts the author against the wall and is at the same time slapped by the composition, the technique, the subject, and, ultimately, the strange presence that things acquire when photographed.
"One drop + one drop, it's not two drops, it's a bigger drop that speaks of the sea."
-David Salcedo