Tuesday 14 January 2020

HOMOgeneous

HOMOgeneous is a series of new portraits by photographer Christian Trippe. This series of photographs seeks to explore the similarities and differences in gay men of a certain age, identifying individuality in a subculture existing within the more mainstream gay culture.

All of the selected models identify themselves as gay or pansexual males and have been photographed without clothes to remove any distraction, however small personal elements to every image remain. The men have been photographed in high resolution giving an extraordinary level of detail. The resulting close-up portraits teeter between intimacy and confrontation.
Christian Trippe was born in Vienna and grew up in Germany. After completing his studies in graphic design and photography, he moved to London where he has lived and worked for the last 13 years. During this time, Christian has been developing his own art and photography projects.

This book accompanied the exhibition held last October at New Art Projects in London E8.
Size of the publication is 255x180mm, portrait and is singer sewn. The 4pp cover is printed on Omnia 280gsm and the 28pp text is on Omnia 150gsm
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The above image shows the centre spread with the singer sewing in the centrefold and on the spine on the outside in the image below. 
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Unlike many of the look-books featured on this blog, which are printed offset litho, this has been digitally printed on an HP Indigo press. The colours are strong and punchy and the whole publication has a matt, tactile look and feel.
Although Omnia was never originally developed for digital, we now keep it as a stock item with "sapphire treatment". This treatment is often applied to more unusual papers and provides a "key" so that the inks (which are different to litho inks) work on the paper surface. The great thing is the job just doesn't look and feel like a digital job. Below is a detail shot showing the excellent fleshtone reproduction.
Design of the catalogue is by Christian Trippe. The digital print by Screaming Colour.

https://www.christiantrippe.com/
http://newartprojects.com/events/new-photographs-christian-trippe/
http://www.screamingcolour.com/
Posted by Justin Hobson 14.01.2019

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