For this project, HUN (published by Dalpine, 2024), I have been photographing for 12 years. This project contains my entire career and development as a photographer. The images span digital to analogue, colour to b/w, 35mm to 120mm, still imagery to frame grabs from filming. I’ve experimented with cyanotype, with anthotype, with still lives and staged photography, with drawing on the images, with riso prints and the list goes on. Even if all these experimentations did not make it into the final book, they are all part of the project and my own artistic development. Arguably, this is not necessary information for the viewer to appreciate the project, but for me it is very special to see my own journey into photography spread across the pages. I think that’s part of the reason the project has taken so long: I needed to take my time to find my voice and confidence as an image maker. Only then was the project ready.

At the same time, the project has been a deep dive into trying to understand and reflect on some complex topics and frustrations that are extremely difficult to sort out. I think of the project and the book as an extension of this process. The idea has been to pass all these questions, to which I don’t have any answers, on to the reader and have them work on them for themselves.

Ultimately, it’s a work that delves into our tendency to have zero tolerance towards those who think differently than we do instead of taking time to reflect and look at ourselves as well.

https://hulujay.com/

Text:Julia Mejnertsen

Voice: Charlote Brown (AI)

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