Photography and editorial · Personal project

Chaos

A photographic and editorial exploration of the physics of chaos: how small events connect, and what follows from them.

Type: Personal project
Services: Art direction, contemporary photography
Timeline: 42 weeks
Year: 2021

CHAOS photobooks with gradient covers laid out in a grid

The question

For humanity, the principle of chaos is the principle of the indeterminate: what we cannot control because we cannot know it. Chaos suggests that every event is connected, and that an insignificant event in one place can have consequences in another.

The idea

This is where I stand, exploring through visual metaphors the physical principles of chaos, how events connect and what follows from them. Duality, mystery and the indeterminate suggest a void, a border between fiction and reality: a kind of magical realism.

What I made

Photographic series
Photobook and editorial design
Posters and typographic pieces

Three CHAOS covers: a painted face, a black glove, a red mask

CHAOS cover with a painted stroke across a face

Photobook spread with a white figure against the sea

Spread with stacked CHAOS type and a black and white figure

Spread with a black glove and colourful CHAOS lettering

Spread with a yellow-faced figure beside a black and white photograph

Folded print with a red figure in a landscape

CHAOS books and prints spread out on a table

Portrait with red face paint beside Spanish text about chaos