between the skin and sea — A Photobook by Katrin Koenning
between the skin and sea is a Photobooks title published by Chose Commune in November 2024. Made across three years (2020–2023), the work by Katrin Koenning addresses intimacy, grief, kinship, and repair within the artist's immediate communities.
The Work
The book operates through fragments rather than linear sequence. Images accumulate — bodies, places, small gestures — without resolving into a single narrative. Shadow and proximity structure the visual field. The work holds grief and shelter alongside one another, neither resolved nor dramatised.
Editing and sequencing were carried out by Koenning in collaboration with Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, whose design work (with Perrine Serre) shapes the book's physical and visual rhythm. The result is an extended image-dialogue: relational, open-ended, attentive to what resists closure.
Publisher
Chose Commune is an independent French publisher known for its rigorous approach to photobook production and design.
Dispatch
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About the Artist
Katrin Koenning was born in 1978 in Dortmund, Germany. She lives and works in Naarm, Australia. She studied documentary photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Brisbane). Her practice centres on intimacy and interconnection, pursued through relational encounters and extended image-dialogues in which fragments are used to open narrative space rather than define it.
