Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life. The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers’ Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks. [publishers’ note]

Card 9 of 10 from the series Serie 67 Daniel Spoerri 1961–1982. Featuring the work Gebauchpinselt, 1965.

*Please note these items are secondhand and have some traces of previous ownership.

Featuring the work Tableau piège, 1972.

*Please note these items are secondhand and have some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Image as Trace at Brunette Coleman, London, 26 April–31 May, 2025. Featuring Paride Maria Calvia, Nat Faulkner, Joyce Joumaa, Marietta Mavrokordatou and Kazuna Taguchi.

“Such images are indeed able to usurp reality because first of all a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.” – Susan Sontag, On Photography

The artists in Image as Trace favour experiential techniques that aren’t subjected to traditional modes of photography. With a shared affinity for exposing their means of production, the works reveal Sontag’s image as trace – charting the material process of photography itself, as well as the imprints of time.

Designed by George Haughton.

Documenting objects from the collection of Derek Jarman, produced on the occasion of the exhibition Derek Jarman: A Void at Chelsea Space, London, 29 January–15 March, 2014. Derek Jarman was an English artist and filmmaker, best known for his avant-garde art films and also renowned as a set designer, gardener, author and gay rights activist.

Poster produced on the occasion of the launch of The Stuart Sherman Papers, published by Flat i, Amsterdam. Thursday, 5 June, 2025, at De Uitkijk, Amsterdam.

Designed by Robert Milne.