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Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention
Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention

Jan Philipzen

Ravedeath Convention

€30,00
21 × 26 cm, 176p, ills b&w, paperback
ISBN 9789493146525
design and edit: Jan Philipzen & Jurgen Maelfeyt
Edition of 500
December 2020

Started as a visual diary, ‘Ravedeath Convention’ soon grew into  a hybrid of autobiography and fiction. While love, joy and friendship are explored, violence and excess come about too, often captured only as traces and symptoms. A collision of different, occasionally mismatched, cultural symbols stresses the all-embracing blend of subcultres as a fundamental feature of our times.

The first pictures taken at age thirteen, this series of black and white images is the edit of a continuous process of photographing, revisiting and reworking over a span of ten years. In the crippled prints the physical presence of body and photograph merge, celebrating human imperfection. The title references Tim Hecker’s album ‘Ravedeath, 1972’.

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Jan Philipzen is a German born photographer currently studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. For the past three years, Philipzen has been working on an autobiographical project: raw, intimate images which capture the stories of the photographer’s close friends as well as the physicality and fragility of the photographic medium.