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Myopia (edition Punto de Fuga)
Hillie de Rooij (NL)
Concept and photography:
Hillie de Rooij
Edit:
Hillie de Rooij
Rob van Hoesel
Essay:
Jan Postma
Design:
Rob van Hoesel
Lithography and print:
NPN Printers (NL)
Risography:
Après Midi Lab (FR)
This special edition contains the book and two risograph prints, printed by Après Midi Lab (Paris), signed and numbered.
About the book:
With Myopia Hillie de Rooij shows us that we do not simply look at pictures. There are rules and codes involved that affect the way we look at images of the world around us. And this surely counts for images of places we have never been before. Myopia deals with the way Africa is depicted in Western media and the fact that this is often based on a stereotype image. Journalistic codes demand a certain degree of stability. Stability provided by familiar foundations such as vocabulary, perspectives and subject matter. We also use our memory to interpret images. But in search of recognition we leave ourselves stuck in clichés.
Hillie de Rooij lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work originates from a fascination with the way our image and our knowledge about the world is influenced by the images that we see in different media. She is interested in how these images were established, how they are constructed and how we read them.