Marta Bogdańska – SHIFTERS

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Limited reprint of 14-chapter photobook. Suspicious squirrels, spying dolphins, nuclear lizards, photographer pigeons. 850 pages of investigating the use of animals as soldiers, spies, police, kamikaze.

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Building on concepts such as Éric Baratay’s ‘history from the animal point of view,’ Michel Foucault’s ‘biopolitics,’ and Hito Steyerl’s ‘poor image,’ as well as new materialist and feminist theories, Bogdańska leads the reader on an artistic and ethical exploration of the presence of animals within the machinery of Western defence institutions from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s.

Along the way, she questions the Judeo-Christian legacy used to deny animals agency and justify their exploitation, and seeks to develop a more nuanced understanding of our inequitable coexistence with them. Texts from contributing writers are interwoven with the visual material. Based on Bogdańska’s findings, the texts then branch out, opening doors to additional interpretations.

The novelesque form of SHIFTERS as an object—the choice of paper, the format, the way it is printed—is a reference to the roots and birth of the modern novel. It also calls to mind the genre of ‘pulp fiction’ with its crude materials and printing, and its mass popularity and bad taste going hand in hand.

For this volume, Bogdańska decided to avoid any approach where the editing would limit the material. Instead, she sought to embrace profusion, arranging it into layered sequences of associations and visual narrations in order to showcase the scale and scope of animal work, the animals’ courage and sacrifice, their exhaustion and suffering. As a result, anyone who picks up this book will immediately feel, both literally and metaphorically, the weight and burden of its contents.

Prizes and awards
  • PHotoESPAÑA Best International Photography Publication of the Year 2022
  • Special Mention at Fotograficzna Publikacja Roku 2022
  • Kassel Dummy Award 2020, shortlist
  • Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles, shortlist 2020
  • MACK First Book Award, shortlist 2020

Concept, editing and graphic design: Marta Bogdańska
Texts: Éric Baratay, Helen Korpak, Stefan Lorenzutti, Jon Schubin, Samuel Tchorek-Bentall
Translation: Jon Beauchamp (Baratay, from the French)
Editing & oversight of texts: Stefan Lorenzutti
Story research: Marta Bogdańska
Permissions & legal consultation: Karolina M. Wojciechowska
Graphic design consultation & typesetting: Nina Gregier
Pre-flight process: Andrzej Karlik

Weight 1,06 kg
Dimensions 21 × 14,5 × 5,5 cm
Publisher

Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych

Year

2023

Edition

200

Graphic design

Marta Bogdańska

ISBN

978-83-62978-38-0

Cover

Softcover

Language

English

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