Looking For Signs
Dublin Core
Title
Looking For Signs
Subject
Conceptual
Description
This body of work is a distinct photographic and text art project, made and inspired from two trips to India in 2017 & 2018 and edited and sequenced over a 5 year period.
Looking For Signs, is an experience of India made through the expressive frame of a hand held camera. The snapshot vision is used as a means of fluid and abstract documentation. This book resembles a travel companion, an almanac of unfolding of time and narrative through the flow of appearances. Over 300 pages, this is a durational and almost encyclopedic narrative experience of India, made through imperfect open-ended visual fragments and encounters with the transience of appearances. Mapping the boundaries and crossovers between the physical and ephemeral, perception and manifestation. In this arena the western self, collides & entangles within the complex dynamics of the cultural, social and historical ecosystems of India. Equally, it explores the universal conventions of photography- its democratic versatility, its technology, its role within capitalism, collective memory, historical remembrance, story telling and desire. Like individual memory, the physical materiality of the medium – its images, technology and craft are subject to disuse, erosion and dissolution.
These are subjective photographs of travel made in the mind.
Looking For Signs, is an experience of India made through the expressive frame of a hand held camera. The snapshot vision is used as a means of fluid and abstract documentation. This book resembles a travel companion, an almanac of unfolding of time and narrative through the flow of appearances. Over 300 pages, this is a durational and almost encyclopedic narrative experience of India, made through imperfect open-ended visual fragments and encounters with the transience of appearances. Mapping the boundaries and crossovers between the physical and ephemeral, perception and manifestation. In this arena the western self, collides & entangles within the complex dynamics of the cultural, social and historical ecosystems of India. Equally, it explores the universal conventions of photography- its democratic versatility, its technology, its role within capitalism, collective memory, historical remembrance, story telling and desire. Like individual memory, the physical materiality of the medium – its images, technology and craft are subject to disuse, erosion and dissolution.
These are subjective photographs of travel made in the mind.
Creator
Peter Finnemore
Publisher
ICVL Studio and Gwendraeth House
Date
2022
Format
Case Bound / Exposed Spine
6pp Cover, Monotone printing and debossed.
304 pp, 150 gsm Silk paper
200 B&W plates plus 40 silver duatones.
6pp Cover, Monotone printing and debossed.
304 pp, 150 gsm Silk paper
200 B&W plates plus 40 silver duatones.
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
14 x 24 cm
Number of Pages
304
Number of images
293
Edition Size
300
Place of Publication
Bristol
Designer
Alejandro Acin
Editor
Peter Finnemore / Alejandro Acin
Printer
Taylor Brothers
ISBN
ISBN 979-8-88680-470-6
Website
peterfinnemore.com
URL Link to project
https://peterfinnemore.com/Looking-for-signs
Where to buy
ICVL Studio
Peter Finnemore website
Tepi Bookshop / Glynn Vivian Art Gallery / Ffotogallery / Streetlevel Photography Gallery
Peter Finnemore website
Tepi Bookshop / Glynn Vivian Art Gallery / Ffotogallery / Streetlevel Photography Gallery
Links to reviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7_2VUjd1M
https://offlinejournal.substack.com/p/42-offline-journal-newsletter-oct
a complete review can be accessed on Offline Journal #42
https://offlinejournal.substack.com/p/42-offline-journal-newsletter-oct
a complete review can be accessed on Offline Journal #42
Citation
Peter Finnemore, “Looking For Signs,” Photobook Cafe Photobook Collection, accessed October 21, 2025, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/1819.