Title: Remains To Be Seen

Photographer/s: Simon Kossoff

Date of publication: September 2011

Place of publication: Overland Park, KS, USA

Dimensions: 7 x 9 1/2 inches

Edition size: 100

Type of binding: Perfect Bound

Number of pages: 72

Number of pictures: 59

Type of printing: Colour / Digital

Printer: Digital Printing Services

Language: English

Category: Artist Book

Price: $27

Summary: ‘Remains to be Seen’ is a personal work which explores grief, loss and memory and the emotional impact these experiences have had on the way I have come to perceive the world here in the present. It’s a book of clues, keys, symbols, echoes and traces. Like latent fingerprints lifted from the psyche – made thousands of miles away from the graves of which it speaks of and recorded several years ‘after the facts’. Because of a lack of direct access to perhaps more concrete ‘evidence’ which still remains stored in a barn in England, a basement in Norway and a spare bedroom in Wales, this book has become very much a history of the present. Because of this, my only resources for making this work have been internal in nature – accompanied by a certain awareness, like a frequency that was tuned into and the series as a whole has been, to some extent, something of a ghost hunt. The sad events which have silently surrounded this project have consequently altered who I am today in ways which I am still discovering and has been part of the secret drive behind the books creation. It is not an exorcism because the possession (if this is what it is to be called) is permanent – dissolved into the self and is present more as an evolution in progress. There are seven stages of grief and this book, I believe, marks for me its final stage; Acceptance.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Dec 11th, Middlesbrough, UK

Website: http://www.getthepicture.fr/

Book link: http://simonkossoff.blogspot.com/2011/09/remains-to-be-seen-book-now-available.html

Donated by: Simon Kossoff