KATRIN KOENNING & SARKER PROTICK - Astres Noirs (SPECIAL EDITION)

Astres noirs is the debut book for both Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, artists who live thousands of miles apart whose peculiar photographic wanderings create a hauntingly beautiful dialogue. This book presents photographs taken on mobile phone cameras, devices used to capture their everyday in an impulsive and almost obsessive way, documenting life from their doorsteps to far afield.

Their photographs capture the commonplace such as water stains on asphalt, dust clouds and rays of light, and transform these into mesmerizing frames – elusive fragments that evoke an imaginary creature, a milky way, a phosphorescent silhouette…

Presented together, their combined voices lead us on a journey into unexplored territory, somewhere between the everyday and paranormal, between night and day. Amongst enveloping darkness, lightness is revealed, dazzling and miraculously caught by discerning eyes. - publisher statement

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Black Stars, the first book by Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, presents the strange wanderings of two photographers who live thousands of kilometers from each other. Armed with their mobile phones as  a privileged photographic tool, they document everyday life in an impulsive and almost obsessive manner, sometimes on their doorstep, often far from home.

They capture things as familiar as a stain of water on the asphalt, a volley of dust, a ray of light, which, through their gaze, are transformed into fascinating and elusive elements: an imaginary creature, a Milky Way, a phosphorescent silhouette...

Two voices that become one take us on this four-handed journey into an unknown land, between the everyday and the paranormal, between night and day. It is in the depths of the enveloping darkness that never abandons them that the light reveals itself, dazzling and miraculous. - written by the publisher