Framing The World
Book By Kinga Owczennikow

Edge of Humanity Magazine

9 months ago

Photographer Kinga Owczennikow is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. From the book ‘Framing the World’. For more info, click on any photograph.

Excerpt from

“The Framing Project“

The book’s cover image of climbers represents in miniature some fundamental qualities of the “Project”. It is a collaboration. Like the climbers, we explore a multitude of frames in the over fifty photographs in the book – open frames, closed frames, frames within frames within the chosen frame of the photograph that imply these frames may have no end. Like the frames in the cover photograph, the images that follow in the book frame the world, both the walls seen and the world beyond. Like close climbers who presumably help each other, the photographer provides factual information about her photographs and sometimes assists the novelist analyze them as he imagines human responses to them. And like this untitled image, the photographs – despite what the author says about them – retain their pleasurable mysteriousness for viewers and readers who can therefore “frame”- even caption- the images with their own words and readings.

Text by Tom LeClair

Framing the World presents over fifty photographs with internal frames, how they sharpen focus on the world and refine viewers’ understanding of viewing – of both the world and photographs. Frames within the photograph’s frame suggest that the photograph self-consciously occupies art space – close viewing space – and these frames invite analysis, interpretation, and appreciation. Internal frames can attract and resist, reveal or deceive, imply their own limitations. Even imply viewers’ limitations, the cognitive frames through which they process the world.

Images: Kinga Owczennikow
Words: Tom LeClair
Designer: Federico Zavatta (Contrast Design)
Publisher: Anne Murayama (Ephemere)
First Edition: 100 copies
Size: W18.2 x H25.7cm (B5)
Other Specs: Perfect Binding, 68 pages, front cover with cut-out
Printing: Tokyo, Japan
Year Published: 2025
ISBN: 978-4-911506-03-5

Framing the World
By Photographer
Kinga Owczennikow

Artist statement

I explore how internal frames within photographs can impact our understanding of both the image and the world around us. The project examines how these frames can highlight, distort, or even deceive our perception, influencing how we interpret both the art and the reality it depicts.