Analog Photography and Ambient Sound in Dialogue
Lejos De La Tierra (Langt Fra Jorden) is the second book by Spanish photographer Irene Zottola, produced in collaboration with Copenhagen-based musician and collage artist øjeRum (Paw Grabowski). Initiated by IIKKI and developed between June and November 2024, the work is a sustained exchange between two distinct practices: Zottola's analog photography and øjeRum's ambient sound composition.
Forty-two photographs compose the book's visual sequence. Shot on analog film, they carry the grain and softness of a medium that resists precision — images of body, landscape, and memory that drift between documentary observation and collage. The sequence does not illustrate; it accumulates, building a dreamlike register in which fragments of the physical world become something less fixed.
The accompanying musical dialogue by øjeRum is available via Bandcamp. The book and the sound exist as parallel works: the Lejos De La Tierra book + vinyl bundle is also available for those who want both objects together. The sound release alone — Langt Fra Jorden by øjeRum — is available separately.
Edition
Limited to 500 copies, each hand-numbered and hand-stamped. First and only edition; no reprint is planned. Hardcover, 17 × 23 cm, 80 pages. The 42 photographs are printed on Munken Print Cream 115 g/m². The covers carry an embossed logo, slot, and circle, with gold hot stamping on both front and back. Visible seam binding. Weight: 0.35 kg. ISBN: 978-2-9586157-5-8.
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Irene Zottola is a self-taught Spanish photographer working in analog photography and collage, based in Madrid at the Slow Photo collective since 2016. Her work has been exhibited in Spain, Italy, and Morocco, and published in She Shoots Film, Fisheye Magazine, and Vost Magazine, as well as with La Bella Varsovia and Lumen. She received a VEGAP Grant to Creation in 2021 and participated in the ART(e)gileak residency. Her first photobook, Icarus (Ediciones Anómalas), was a finalist at PhotoEspaña and at Les Rencontres d'Arles Photobook Awards 2022.
øjeRum is Copenhagen-based musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski. Working with treated acoustic instruments in a minimal, textural ambient style, he has released extensively since 2014 on eilean rec., Room40, Line, Opal Tapes, and other labels.
