Book of Pinholes

Book of PinholesWith long exposure times, what is recorded is not one moment but a period of time; and that, in principle, makes movement and therefore, performance, an inherent part of this form of practice. Alireza Abbasy uses pinhole cameras for creating images whose process of making is a performance; in fact, he explores the possibility of creating an image that is a performance in itself. Photography does not have to be seen only in terms of single images.

Readers will also find a number of essays in this issue: Shih-Lun Chang reveals the political element hidden in photography as he takes a look at the regulatory issues that were sparked from the image of an escaped migrant worker in Yu-Hsien Su’s video work

From its founding publication of a handprinted book to Monsoon

It is distinct for the intensive interdisciplinary research

within the profusion of his production

Comme dans les films

during and just after their collapse and destructions

Chang produces an atmosphere of extreme focus and intrigue

This fourth issue of MsHeresies republishes the chapter *Daffodils* — a warped monologue about a domestic poisoning — from Rosalind Belben’s book Is Beauty Good (1989)

"Braakman en ik" is the first part of the Van Eyck "Spiegelreeks"

the “Image Hong Kong” section discusses the interpretation of the photographic history of Hong Kong’s first photographer in the early 19th century

With a poetic voice of crackling electricity

"Reading Tests" documents in four sections a set of reading tests posed and answered by two humans - a writer and a typographer - and their constant machinic interlocuter