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Porter 9: Tom Price

840,00 € – 1200,00 €

“When we show something in a very straightforward, documentary sense, we can lose something that’s core to the experience we’re trying to communicate. Literature is a great example of how fiction, the abstract and the surreal can be employed to tell emotional truths in a way that non-fiction just can’t. And the hope for this project was that it would somehow get close to that.” – Tom Price

Porter is part of a wider series of portraits exploring industry and work, largely made in India. In his collaboration with Featherwax, a retouching studio, the intention was to take some of the ideas from the original series and condense them visually into something with more clarity and impact. Much of the credit for this goes to Featherwax, who did a brilliant job of highlighting the visual spectacle of what the porters did alongside a sense of the difficulty, precarity and dislocation experienced by the migrant workers.

 

 

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SKU: 18 Categories:Nature, People, UK Tags:Courage, Fantasy, Precarious
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In 2016, Tom Price created a series of portraits featuring market porters in Asia’s largest wholesale market – Barabazar in Kolkata. He was initially drawn to these subjects because of their herculean task of carrying implausibly sized objects through the bustle of a mega market. As he photographed these workers in isolation, separated from the throng of their ant-like industry, he discovered that many of the subjects had travelled far from their homes for this work, leaving families and familiarity behind in order to earn a living. In 2020, Tom collaborated with Featherwax to relocate these portraits into a more surreal landscape. This series is an attempt at representing something of the experience of the migrant labourer; the sense of dislocation, the burden of their work and the courage it takes to make ends meet.

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Weight 2 kg
Dimensions 53 × 42,5 × 2 cm
orientation

Horizontal

medium

Digital

materials

Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308g, Museum glass UV 70%, Acid-free passe-partout, Frame: Nielsen Quadrum Oak – 50×40 cm, Signed and numbered with a unique Helphoto Editions label that is supplied separately

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Available in larger size DIN A0

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Framed Print, Print only

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