Wake up
By Adam Jeppesen
“wake up” is a casual
blue note book looking book published by steidl in 2008, the book had no
introduction on it what so ever, and as I went through the pictures I realized
a mysterious atmosphere in his images which got me interested to know what
could this notebook mean, Adam puts together a selection of contemporary pictures
he took over seven years of traveling, his work is a mix of fiction and documentary.
As an introduction on the first page of the book you see a
dead, fallen tree in a middle of a forest, and on the second picture you see
tea cups with red drops all over the place, and opposite that picture there’s a
letter that seems almost like it’s by two people that love each other, but are
far an apart from each other, I have assumed from the letter that one of them
is waiting at home while the other is traveling, one mention a plant dying and
the other ended the letter by “I wanna hear yr voice on the phone, maybe t’mor’row”.
The letter proves the atmosphere his pictures show, a settled
isolated and uncertain expectation in every image, a sense of a quiet and calm appearance,
an untold story, heavy darkness and blurry lights, you can sense the loneliness
in most of his pictures, it’s almost like he is searching for something
unknown, it certainly gives the impression of a thoughtful narrative personal search.
I think that he way the book was is presented and the
narrative sequence of the pictures the book is holding is put together
carefully and took a lot of thought, the simplicity of the book cover and the picture
on the introduction goes perfectly with the meaning of what the book contains.
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| HR-Mljet by Adam Jeppesen |
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