Dafna Talmor — Constructed Landscapes by Fw:Books 
24 x 28 cm / 210 pages (10 gatefolds) / colour/ softcover /
Texts by Olga Smith, Shoair Mavlian, Cherry Smyth and interview by Gemma Padley with Dafna Talmor;
Design Hans Gremmen

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Constructed Landscapes, an ongoing project consisting of two sub-series, stems from a personal archive of
photographs initially shot as mere keepsakes across different locations. Produced by collaging medium format colour
negatives, the resulting images are staged landscapes, a conflation combining the ‘real’ and the imaginary. Through
this work, specific places initially loaded with personal meaning and political connotations, are transformed into a space
of greater universality. Blurring place, memory and time - defying specificity and referring to the transient - the work
alludes to idealised and utopian spaces. In dialogue with the history of photography, Constructed Landscapes
references Pictorialist processes of combination printing as well as Modernist experiments with the materiality of film.
Whilst distinctly holding historical references, the work engages with contemporary discourse on manipulation and the
analogue/digital divide. Beyond photographs, the work has expanded to include site-specific vinyl wallpapers and
spatial interventions, photograms and studies.


The book includes 44 main colour plates from the two project sub-series alongside extensive previously unpublished process material such as reproductions of contact sheets, constructed negatives and preparatory studies.