Slab focuses on honoring dead and empty places, that seemingly have no purpose.

It unframes and opens spaces, allowing raw substances to emerge from beneath.

Raw photography may be spooky. Celebrate the broken and the cracks.

Slab operates with defined rules:

1.      positive rules

∞      black & white photographs

∞      high contrasts

∞      grainy

∞  pushing the boundaries of underexposure

2.      negative rules

∞      no humans

∞      no space-time references

3.      technical rules

∞      mechanical camera (Leica MP, no battery)

∞      sensitive films (Kodak 3200)

∞      prints are platinum-palladium by Salto Ulbeek (Belgium), who has developed a unique technique in traditional printing which dates from the mid XIX century. Platinum-palladium prints are among the most permanent objects produced by man.  They produce deeper blacks, an unmatched scale of greys and nuances, a deep and velvety feel. Salto Ulbeek is specialised in the printing and preservation of photographic archives. https://salto-ulbeek.com/about/history/

∞      photographs are framed in Düsseldorf (Germany) in natural wood individually chosen from cuts of trees (usually German oak).

The origins of Slab lie in the first years of photography, the silent movie era (in particular the movies of Feuillade), ‘films noirs’, Albator (Legi Matsumoto), crime novels of Edogawa Ranpo, poems of Francis Ponge and Henri Michaux, American abstract expressionism.