Carla Liesching

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Carla Liesching is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, writing, collage, sculpture, installation, bookmaking and design. Grounded in early experiences growing up in apartheid South Africa, her work considers the intersections of representation, knowledge and power—with a focus on colonial histories and enduring constructions of race and geography. As part of her socially engaged practice, Carla is also a youth educator focused on photography, visual literacy and self-publishing as vehicles for expression and empowerment. She is an avid self-publisher and is a contributing editor and co-founder of femme-centered quarterly publication Puzzazz Mag. In 2019, a chapbook version of her project Good Hope was co-published by iTi Press and Gato Negro Ediciones, CDMX, Mexico, and a full-length book will be published in October 2021 by MACK, London, UK. She is a 2021 Light Work Grant recipient, as well as a winner of The British Journal of Photography Open Walls Arles competition, with upcoming exhibitions at the Lightwork Foundation and at Galerie Huit during Recontres Arles Photo Festival. Recent exhibitions also include: Late/Refusals with Oranbeg Press, Brooklyn (2021); Gato Negro and Friends Popup at MoMA , New York (2019); Follow my Hand at Deli Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); a booth with Brownie Project at PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai (2018); Emerging Photographers at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2018); wholewide.world with Volte Face, Johannesburg (2018). Carla is currently based in Ithaca, New York, where she works as faculty for the International Center of Photography and coordinates the School of Criticism and Theory in the Comparative Literature department at Cornell University. She has also worked as an instructor and visiting lecturer at the Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg. Carla is a 2019 graduate of Ithaca College’s Image Text MFA program.

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ON WHITENESS by The Racial Imaginary Institute

SPBH EDITIONS / MACK

REGULAR PRICE ¥3,740 (tax incl.)

GOOD HOPE by Carla Liesching

MACK

REGULAR PRICE ¥7,700 (tax incl.)