Title: Trash
Year: 2020
Photographer: Julia Palm
Design and publisher: Ted Whitaker/ Black Wax Press
Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
Pages: 76
Edition of 50, first print run
Paper stock: 250gsm Curious Metal and 130gsm Gloss
You don’t really get to know a place until you go through it’s trash. Trash is a photobook by Julia Palm that celebrates found compositions of street-side trash. These images are obsessive and made with an intuitive approach, subverting methods of tourist photos and everyday snapshots. These images celebrate the dirty, filthy and bleak elements of the streets. All the images were captured with disposable 35mm film cameras, a literal connection to the material within the frame. Locations include New York City, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, Göteborg, Stockholm, Naseby, Ōtepoti and Te Whanganui-a-Tara between 2016 and 2019.
Julia Palm is a fashion designer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Her project-based slow-fashion project, JPALM, borrows heavily from its origins within punk culture. The hands-on method of making allows the designer to make impromptu decisions, and adapt/change as the materials demand.
