Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later!
Thijs groot Wassink
Archive of Modern Conflict and WassinkLundgren
English
Softcover
56 pages
170 x 215 mm
2008
ISBN 9780954709136
In Don’t Smile Now … Save it for Later, Thijs Groot Wassink shows us London from the viewpoint of a photo booth.
Go into the booth, open the curtain, feed in the money, hold up a mirror, press the button – and pop! In post offices and train stations, supermarkets and shopping centres, the booth camera captures its first uncertain view of the world outside. It sees vague figures – blurred, menacing, oblivious, suspicious. It sees shelves of gaudy merchandise, the fingers of a man, Bob the Builder. Thank you for using Photo-Me.
(Source: https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/dont-smile-now/)
About the Artist
Before retraining as a team coach and therapist, Thijs worked for over a decade as a photographer under the duo name WassinkLundgren. His work has been exhibited in museums worldwide, and he has received numerous awards, including the Prix du Livre at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2007 for the publication ‘Empty Bottles’. In 2016, ‘The Chinese Photobook’ was released, a research project in collaboration with Martin Parr. After working as a teacher for several years, Thijs has been a study coach at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague since 2019. Here, he works with young adults at the intersection of artistic creation and personal development.
(Source: https://www.kabk.nl/en/teachers/thijs-groot-wassink)
About the Publisher
The Archive of Modern Conflict is an organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of vernacular photographs, objects, artefacts, curiosities, and ephemera. Founded in 1991, the archive began as a collection of photographs relating to war and conflict but has since expanded its remit to become the vast and thematically diverse repository it is today.
https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/
(Source: https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/about-us/)
