Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention bundle producing a mass of exploratory

producing a mass of exploratory material that often runs to hundreds of images

The photographs create a compelling visual journey that merges contemporary scenes with ancient engravings

it is too fleeting and agile to be seen and experienced

of becoming someone else

The relations between the objects and how they function together is important

Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention bundle producing a mass of exploratoryStarted as a visual diary, Ravedeath Convention soon grew into a hybrid of autobiography and fiction. While love, joy and friendship are explored, violence and excess come about too, often captured only as traces and symptoms. A collision of different, occasionally mismatched, cultural symbols stresses the all embracing blend of subcultres as a fundamental feature of our times. The first pictures taken at age thirteen, this series of black and white