Photocollages by Helen Korpak

Nominated for the 2023 Polish Photographic Publication of the Year

Beginning to look
I started to notice
the older I get
the more I notice
studying the reproductions
separating this from that
noticing the gestures
feeling the movements
of the joints—

«Hands & Feet of Friends & Family» is a weave of Helen Korpak’s photocollages and locket-sized literary captions recording closely observed familiar and familial gestures. Granular renderings tenderly taped, Korpak’s collages meld the touching and the wryly humorous, balancing throughout the vulnerability of artist and subjects bonded by essential fondness.

Helen Korpak is an art worker located in Helsinki, Finland. She photographs, writes about art, and is a founding member of the Kosminen collective.