
Geography
- Publisher
- Dashwood
- Year
- 2025
- Specifications
- Hardcover
31 × 49 cm
304 pages
Black and white and colour photographs
English
Sicher is known for her work that explores the boundaries between photography and cinema, with an unwavering attention to the human body, without censorship. He often investigates themes of identity, diversity and the intersection between ancient and modern photographic processes. Sicher co-authored Treasure with Paloma Elsesser, a book that documented the model's breast surgeries. In Geography he draws on his personal archives from 2011 to today, photographing his close circle of friends. The first lines of the introductory text, edited by art critic and independent curator Gaby Cepeda, speak of the ephemeral quality of her photographs and the simple but noble objective of this body of work. Is it possible to free yourself? Can we materialize our experience, frame it conveniently in a tidy (or slightly messy) snapshot, and pour our most embodied memories into it, so that we can preserve them, placing a final, pretty bow on the closed box that is the gift of our past? Sicher's primary concern appears to be the human condition from his very personal perspective, exploring the relationships surrounding it to encapsulate the nature of his practice. The intimacy of his work and his way of relating to the people and places he photographs may seem interchangeable with the sex that occurs between two people making love… sex can mean a million different things, but the kind of sex I'm referring to is the one that says: “You can look at me, I'll look back at you”. From the essay by Tiger Hutchence-Archer