EXIT #90 - Album I. Own stories

We can understand an album as a surface, a device or an artifact in which one or several people inscribe the memory of an experience, in which they try to record their passage or reflect one of the profiles of their identity. In this 90th issue of EXIT we open a first door to deal with the subject of the album from its own, intimate perspective, paying attention to the work of photographers who have used this strategy to talk about something particularly close to themselves: their family, their environment, their friends or even themselves.

EXIT 90 Album I - Own Stories brings together the work of up to sixteen photographers who, from different perspectives, are representative of the subject. The central text, signed by the researcher María Rosón, talks about the album and the photographic compilation as a structure of memory and a writing of I/we, based on works by artists such as Jo Spence, Fernando Montiel Klint, Anna Fux or Ignacio Navas. In the dossiers section, we present the work of twelve photographers. Trish Morrissey leads the way with an exercise in fiction; Sian Davey and Doug DuBoys document their everyday environment, linked to people in their family; Ana Casas Broda, Sara Davidmann, Diana Tamane and Suwon Lee dust off family archives to revisit the album concept; Sara Angelucci and Joy Gregory do a similar exercise but using objects such as a handbag or clothes from a closet; Lebohang Kganye, Chino Otsuka and Jon Uriarte intervene, manipulate, directly in the archives, either from the phantasmagoria or from the erasure.

In Portfolio, the section in which we give space to the most interesting photographers on the contemporary scene, we present Laia Abril, Nicola di Giorgio, Clothilde Matta, Marianne Matouk and Kamonlak Sukchai.