{"product_id":"intimate","title":"Intimate","description":"\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 4;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: red; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe introductory text \u003ci\u003eA Move To Acquiescence\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eIntimate\u003c\/i\u003e is written by Robin Titchener, a renowned UK based photobook collector and reviewer. The essay \u003ci\u003eThe Topography of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e is written by the book’s editor Rosamund Brennan, an Australian art writer and editor published in \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eDeutsche Welle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAl Jazeera\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eA pool of sweat shimmers across a commuter’s forehead. Anguished faces gape into the blinding sun. Women and men in suits dart beneath the awning of a construction site, walking in unison but somehow entirely unaware of each other, ensconced within their own oblivion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003ePulverised light seeps into every crack and crevice, exposing furrowed brows, blemishes and worry lines – those strangely beautiful features that philosopher Umberto Eco referred to as the “infinite ugliness”. Scurrying through the arteries of the city, these nameless faces appear to be searching for something elliptical, something just out of reach. Like entering a room with great purpose, and at once forgetting why you are there. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eAs if emerging from a dream, eidetic visions of the environment speckle the urban landscapes. Shafts of light filter through a motionless forest, rain casts concentric circles over a body of water; summoning a feeling of tenderness, a nostalgia for the gentle poetry and serenity of nature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eA cinematic meditation on nature and civilisation, Markus Andersen’s\u003ci\u003e Intimate\u003c\/i\u003e plunges us into minutiae of urban life in Sydney. Using a telephoto lens, he carves a silent path through the city, capturing a procession of nameless faces, their expressions blown up and immortalised in black and white.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e“I shoot fast, take the frame and move. I guess it’s like trying to capture lightning in a bottle,” Andersen says. Shot in extreme close-up and drenched in sunlight, his moody, monochromatic images transmit the full spectrum of human emotion. The inner battles, the hidden vulnerabilities, are laid bare for all to see. Masterfully juxtaposing street photography with tender portraits of the environment, Andersen evokes a bittersweet sense of nostalgia, of disconnection, and denial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eAt once mesmeric and beckoning, \u003ci\u003eIntimate\u003c\/i\u003e transports us to the dark heart of urbanisation and our seemingly limitless appetite for destruction. In doing so, he sheds light on our dormant yearnings to be reacquainted with the natural world and, ultimately, our complicity in its demise. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eMarkus Andersen has a significant exhibition profile with solo and collaborative shows held in New York, Paris, Toronto, Istanbul, United Kingdom and Sydney. His work has been the subject of two publications, \u003ci\u003eCabramatta – A Moment in Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRage Against the Light\u003c\/i\u003e, both produced by T\u0026amp;G Publishing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Markus Andersen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54077527785809,"sku":"1001041010102","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/1673\/0193\/files\/Intimate_Cover_Lite.jpg?v=1781604897","url":"https:\/\/rrbphotobooks.com\/products\/intimate","provider":"RRB Photobooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}