THE EYES- (AFTER)CARE TRAUMA. VULNERABILITY. ACCOUNTABILITY

With this new issue entitled “(After)care“, The Eyes explores the methods and approaches of photographers who address the most traumatic chapters of our individual and collective histories. After collaborating with SMITH (Transgalactic, 2020) and Johny Pitts (B-Side, 2021), we invited the Spanish artist Laia Abril to take over the content of the magazine. This issue explores the role of responsibility in the process of photography. Many questions are raised in this issue: how do we portray our deepest wounds? What is the significance of vulnerability in the creation of photographs? How can we ensure that the violence of the world is not repeated through the violence of images? This issue of The Eyes features a variety of works and books by artists who all represent, in their own way, a practice of “photographic care”. The works address subjects as diverse as colonial wars, natural disasters, sexual and gender violence, and disability. Texts and interviews with researchers and artists broaden the reflection on this subject, which is as yet little discussed. TEXTS (AFTER)CARE Taous Dahmani Historian of photography and member of the editorial board of The Eyes THE ORGANIC METHOD Laia Abril Artist, researcher and guest curator of The Eyes #13 (AFTER)CARE Daniela Vicherat Mattar Care expert, associate professor of sociology at Leiden University in The Hague. HOW WOULD YOU CONSIDER AFTERCARE IN YOUR WORK ? The artists published in the magazine give their views on the notion of aftercare in their artistic practice. Ana Vallejo, Hayley Millar Baker, Hoda Afshar, Kitra Cahana, Margo Ovcharenko, Max Pinckers, Robert Andy Coombs, Masina & Gal, Jérémie Danon. NETWORKS OF MUTUAL CARE A conversation between the two artists, Carmen Winant and Laia Abril PHOTOCAPTIONIST Letizia Lopreiato x Laia Abril Federica Chiocchetti proposes in these pages a dialogue between the unpublished images of Laia Abril and the poet Letizia Lopreiato. PORTFOLIOS 12 ARTISTS PORTFOLIOS Hoda Afshar Robert Andy Coombs Kitra Cahana Joana Choumali Je?re?mie Danon Masina & Gal Hayley Millar Baker Margo Ovcharenko Max Pinckers Aida Silvestri Ana Vallejo Carmen Winant