• Front cover of between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune), orange softcover with a small black-and-white photo inset.
  • Interior spread from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) showing a black-and-white seascape with the horizon.
  • Interior spread from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) with a misty forest scene and a black-and-white portrait of a deer.
  • Interior spread from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) with a shadowed portrait and a black-and-white photo of a white cat.
  • Interior page from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) showing a figure standing under a tree beside a wall.
  • Interior page from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) showing a smoky landscape with a bare tree and utility poles.
  • Interior page from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) showing a small bird perched on a ledge against an open sky.
  • Interior spread from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) with a close-up of a bird near a fence and a still life of an apple on a small stand.
  • Interior spread from between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune) showing a close-up of bare feet and a sheet hanging in front of a window.
  • Interior photograph from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: cat mid-leap near a window.
  • Interior photograph from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: person outdoors with hair blown across the face.
  • Interior spread from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: yellow flowers and a layered portrait in colour.
  • Interior photograph from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: cat silhouette sitting on a windowsill.
  • Interior photograph from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: full moon above a building sign, black-and-white.
  • Interior spread from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: textured foliage and an owl, black-and-white.
  • Interior photograph from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: double image of a bed in low light, colour.
  • Interior photograph from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: two crescent shapes above power lines, black-and-white.
  • Interior spread from “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning: draped fabric at a window and a portrait outdoors, black-and-white.
  • Back cover of between the skin and sea by Katrin Koenning (Chose Commune), orange cover with a small photo inset.
  • Spine detail of “between the skin and sea” by Katrin Koenning, orange cover with white title text and Chose Commune logo.
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between the skin and sea

between the skin and sea – Katrin Koenning

Katrin Koenning
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between the skin and sea is Katrin Koenning’s Chose Commune photobook on intimacy, grief, and repair (2020–2023).

  • First edition
  • 188 pages, 125 plates
  • 21 × 26 cm
  • Section-sewn OTA-bound debossed softcover with tip-on
  • Editing and sequencing: Katrin Koenning & Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
  • Design: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi (with Perrine Serre)
  • Language: French / English
  • Publication date: November 2024
  • ISBN: 9791096383481

About between the skin and sea

Made across three years (2020–2023), between the skin and sea stays close to the artist’s immediate communities. The work moves through quiet observations. It holds fragments of love, sorrow, intimacy, and healing without forcing a single storyline.

Published by Chose Commune, the photobook leans into shadow and proximity. Sequences connect bodies, places, and small gestures. The tone is restrained. It reads as an extended image-dialogue about relation, shelter, and repair.

About Katrin Koenning

Katrin Koenning (born 1978 in Dortmund, Germany) lives and works in Naarm, Australia. She studied documentary photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Brisbane). Her practice centers on intimacy and interconnection. She often works through relational encounters and long image-dialogues, using fragments to open narrative space.

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