“I always like when people can’t understand how I made an image,” Burnett says of her surreal, disorienting new photo book
Sun-bleached beaches, the bend of a knee, bubbles, shade … and sock puppets. This is the heady, often disorienting terrain of’s second book of photographs. Rendered in black and white over 40 pages, the volume, published by Dashwood, is part of a limited edition of 750 copies., ploughed a similar furrow – self-portraits in black and white created during the pandemic – but her latest work speaks to freedom and escape.
a hearty dose of the surreal in these pages and a sense that not everything is as it seems. Burnett uses her body as a motif – contorted, exposed and somehow untamed – as well as expansive vistas and homemade puppets.The photos were taken in Burnett’s Brooklyn apartment – among her belongings and where she is most anchored to her sense of self – and in Jamaica.
For the latter location, she packed her bags with more socks than a tropical trip might traditionally necessitate, as well as craft supplies suggestive of a children’s TV presenter. She admits that the sight of her – both model and photographer – posing with animated socks on the Caribbean shoreline raised some eyebrows.also manages to capture both intense nostalgia and ‘right now’ modernity. Where does she get inspiration from? “So many places.
These, frankly, off-the-wall roots took hold and before long Burnett was engrossed in what would become her first book. Her approach to photography since then, and evident in
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