SCARTI - A. Bloomberg and O. Chanarin

ADAM BLOOMBERG AND OLIVER CHANARIN
Scarti

Publisher: Trolley Books
Publication date: December 2013
Pages: 64
Language: English
First Edition
ISBN: 9781907112461
NEW


Ghetto was published by Trolley Books ten years ago. It documented twelve contemporary gated communities, and was photographed by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin entirely on large format colour negative. The book took three years to produce and is now out of print.

Scarti di avviamento is the technical term at the printers in Italy for paper that is fed fed through the printing press to clean the drums of ink between print runs. This by-product is usually destroyed once the book is printed. But iduring the printing of Ghetto the scarti – Italian for scraps - were saved and stored away by publisher Gigi Giannuzzi. Following his untimely death in December 2012 these scarti were discovered.

The twice-printed sheets reveal uncanny and often beautiful combinations, both compositionally and contextually.
Yet in truth they are nothing more than a series of little accidents.