Slab makes ghosts visible.

It gives a stage to the unseen.

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)

The origins of Slab lie in the first years of photography, Eugène Atget, Weegee, 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, Cézanne, Francis Bacon.