Werker 2 – A Gestural History of the Young Worker

Werker 2 – A Gestural History of the Young WorkerDrawing inspiration from the Worker Photography Movement of the 1920s, which saw photographers collaborating with workers and trade unions to visualize societal and political conditions from a working class perspective, Werker Collective reconsiders the relationship between labour and its photographic representation in the past and in the present. Werker 2: A Gestural History of the Young Worker takes as its starting point the representation of the

Jaccoud reconstructs transcripts of conversations between family members and memories recounted by the artist to build this intricate story of stories into a dramatalogical work

In a room of his own

extended takes

His visual storytelling is marked by a delicate balance between poetic imagery and hard-hitting documentary realism

Bare board hardback with printed jacket

1986) gained a Masters degree from the Time and Space department at the Academy of Arts Helsinki in 2016 and her BA from the University of the Arts London

200 x 265 mm

speaking in their stillness to hidden dynamics of power

now genocidal violence imposed upon Gaza to date

Somewhere activates the archive and the typology as a source of human joy and communion while emboldening his subjects and unlocking the deep essence of different places worldwide

All proceeds from the sale of the editions go towards funding the award

on both sides of the border