I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES.
Tom Biddulph
54 pages
149x106x20mm
Edition of 150
ISBN 978-90-83428-68-0
Tom Biddulph is obsessed with the words that people wear. Printing onto fabric has become so accessible that words are worn everywhere, so much so that other people barely bother to read them.
After eight years photographing anyone wearing any bits of text, Tom has an archive of snapshots, taken quickly on his phone. Using the words, phrases and slogans taken from 54 of these images, a new text has been composed: a poem written with a camera and spoken aloud across fourteen garments. The poem speaks of the pain, the pleasure, and the often banal reality of being alive today.
This book holds a collection of 54 postcards. Although there is a suggested order for the images to appear, you’re free to rearrange them as you see fit and assemble your own text. Don’t limit yourself to the 54 images contained in the book either; add your own and let the text grow into something new.