between the skin and sea — A Photobook by Katrin Koenning
between the skin and sea is a Photography Books & Photobooks title published by Chose Commune in November 2024. Produced across three years (2020–2023), the work emerges at a time of collective upheaval and turns resolutely inward. The hyper-local takes centre-stage: made among the artist's immediate communities, the photographs trace networks of love, grief, kinship, shelter, and repair — entanglements that resist summary.
The Work
The book does not proceed by linear sequence. Images accumulate — bodies, places, small gestures, the grain of proximity — without arriving at a resolved narrative. Shadow structures the visual field throughout. Grief and shelter appear alongside one another, neither dramatised nor explained away.
Koenning works through fragments and slippages, using them to suggest narrative spaces and communities that remain fluid and open. The result is an extended image-dialogue: relational in method, resistant to closure, attentive to what cannot be fixed in place.
Editing, Sequencing & Design
Editing and sequencing were carried out by Katrin Koenning in collaboration with Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi. The design — by Poimboeuf-Koizumi in collaboration with Perrine Serre — shapes the book's physical and visual rhythm, binding the work into a coherent object without imposing resolution on its contents.
Publisher
Chose Commune is an independent French publisher with a rigorous approach to photobook production and design.
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.
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