A riotous photographic romp celebrating sociality and everyday clutter
A glorious photobook in which people, places and things casually tangle up into beautifully baffling configurations, Jordan Weitzman-s (born 1984) Participation captures the world at a slant where naked bodies form sultry architecture and everyday clutter assembles into art. With a Louis Fratino dust jacket featuring half-etched figures and mysterious symbols, the book-s sequence is intimate and playful while never spelling itself out. Its title expresses the photographer-s immersion in his milieu, as he locates with an exacting compositional eye where the goofiness and boredom of everyday life drift into formal complexity and undefinable emotional states; it is an invitation as much as it is a challenge, not only descriptive of Weitzman-s willingness to get in and meet his subjects head, waist or side-on but for the viewer to crane their neck and pick apart his gorgeously twisted po
