Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later!, Thijs Groot Wassink

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.

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.

Published by Archive of Modern Conflict and WassinkLundgren
Softcover
56 pages
170 x 215 mm
ISBN 9780954709136