Angle 24°: Fun with Negatives by Clare Strand

Clare Strand’s latest project is a series of negatives printed onto translucent paper. “The offer’s there,” says Strand, “People can make their own prints and then they have the images themselves, or they can keep the book as it is. The negatives have a physicality to them – they have their own aesthetic – so it’s not a redundant object if you don’t use them”.

Titled Fun with Negatives, Strand’s zine is the 24th edition of Angle 1-90°, a 90-part publishing project by Norwegian book publisher Multipress. Each zine is made by a different artist who presents their own unique angle on the world through photography. Multipress will continue to produce four zines a year until they reach 90°.

Strand studied photography at Brighton, and then at RCA, and takes a conceptual approach to the medium. “I’m interested in the way photography is distributed,” she explains. “The idea of letting your negatives out to the public is probably something that many photographers are quite fearful about in regard to editioning and copyrighting.”

The negatives used in Angle 24° are private photographs from Strand’s archive. They’re the same images she used in her installation at Unseen Photo Festival in 2016, in which she invited viewers to play a game of hoopla to win a photograph. “I like the idea of reusing a group of images. It’s not necessarily about what they’re of, but the fact that they’re constantly re-evaluated, reused and redistributed.”

clarestrand.co.uk Angle 24° is published by Multipress and can be purchased for 11 EUR www.multipressforlag.com

Angle 24° by Clare Strand, published by Multipress

 

Angle 24° by Clare Strand, published by Multipress
Angle 24° by Clare Strand, published by Multipress
Angle 24° by Clare Strand, published by Multipress
Angle 24° by Clare Strand, published by Multipress
Marigold Warner

Deputy Editor

Marigold Warner worked as an editor at BJP between 2018 and 2023. She studied English Literature and History of Art at the University of Leeds, followed by an MA in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London. Her work has been published by titles including the Telegraph Magazine, Huck, Elephant, Gal-dem, The Face, Disegno, and the Architects Journal.