Hands & Feet of Friends & Family by Helen Korpak

Photocollages by Helen Korpak

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Nominated for the 2023 Polish Photographic Publication of the Year

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Beginning to look
I started to notice
the older I get
the more I notice
studying the reproductions
separating this from that
noticing the gestures
feeling the movements
of the joints—

Hands & Feet of Friends & Family is a weave of Helen Korpak’s photocollages and locket-sized literary captions recording closely observed familiar and familial gestures. Granular renderings tenderly taped, Korpak’s collages meld the touching and the wryly humorous, balancing throughout the vulnerability of artist and subjects bonded by essential fondness.

Designed and typeset with haptic craft by Samuli Saarinen.

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2023
Edition of 400; 2nd printing of 500 (2024)
96 pages, 12×17.5 cm, color offset, sewn & glued
Printed on Arctic Munken Print Cream 80 and Pure Rough 300
Designed by Samuli Saarinen
ISBN 978-83-965968-2-6

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Helen Korpak is an art worker located in Helsinki, Finland. She photographs, writes about art, and is a founding member of the Kosminen collective.