The 11x11

Fascinated by the stories and the illustrations by the early explorers and travellers, Lomef rarely
uses travel guides!

"I do not like the instructional character of those books. Instead, I try to use references from
movies, novels, songs, news and of course, random stories. A great influence for this travelling
and the idealism constructed around it, were some of the comic albums of my youth:
the travels of Asterix from Goscinny and Uderzo and the adventures of Tintin from Hergé."

After travelling with photography for many years and accumulating photographs. A good starting point
was necessary in order to organise this fabrication. A friend with a good knowledge in Numerology
pointed to the significance of the number eleven. The Subsequently research into pages and pages
of classifications devoted to eleven returned with a significant one:   “eleven is the first number
which cannot be represented by a human counting his or her eight fingers and two thumbs additively,
and actually requires as an alternative for the human  to count additively including the toes”.
Nevertheless, the focal point for the organisation of this project, was found.

Eleven journeys with eleven photographs each.

1_American Photographs,
2_Turkey in the light,
3_In Portugal,
4_Bohemian Photographs,
5_Sicilian Summer,
6_Around the Baltic Sea,
7_In the Land of the Finns,
8_Trip to Iceland,
9_Polish Work,
10_About Spain,
11_From Berlin.

The common coefficient in each book is the story of the journey. Told through a freedom
on the viewing angle; landscape together with portrait, close up next to street photography, black
and white along with colour, all in a unity facilitated by the choice of the prime (undividable)
number eleven.

A retrospective, 10 years of journey, arranged like a fictitious contact sheet.

The final state of this project was a compilation of all the booklets together,
along with an introduction from Anurag Jain, in one book, 11x11

The book 11x11 ( 164pages,121 photographs ) and
the eleven individual booklets (26 pages, 11 photographs )
can be previewed from this site.