news Between the Images – Jason Fulford Distills Three Decades of Photography into “Frozen Features”

The particular fascination of photomontage lies in the spaces between images: where pictures meet, leave their original contexts behind and give rise to unexpected new realities. This is precisely what happens in Frozen Features, the new project by American photographer, publisher and artist Jason Fulford, published by Loose Joints.

Fulford fuses time and space, places and memories into a visual waking dream. A tiny coiled leaf meets a vast landscape, a hand floats across a bedspread, traces of civilisation are layered over images of nature. Pictures that originally had nothing to do with one another suddenly begin to speak. The everyday becomes enigmatic, sometimes humorous, sometimes almost mystical.

For nearly three decades, Fulford has explored how meaning emerges between images. Even the title Frozen Features can be read as a play on the very nature of photography: it freezes moments, forms and details – only for Fulford to set them in motion again decades later by removing them... more