{"product_id":"sam-youkilis-somewhere-2017-2023","title":"Sam Youkilis: Somewhere 2017-2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description__inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSam Youkilis has been building a continuous archive of photographic works through his phone for the last six years. Working instinctively, Youkilis's short, immersive videos gather universal themes of human experience, using the casual language of the cameraphone to evoke something profound, anthropological, comprehensive and yet incomplete. Youkilis’s work springs from an attitude, a way of experiencing the world, that contains depth beyond the o\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehand ease in which his images freely circulate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Youkilis’s first publication, the depth of this engagement with human patterns of behaviour is archived and scattered across a diverse range of themes, divided into chapters that playfully tease the tensions between categorisation and chance that inform his observational works. Made exclusively of video stills, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSomewhere\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003escours Youkilis’s database for images of everything from the time of day–7:07AM, 12:33PM—to unmade beds, the act of cutting, thresholds, dancing couples and gestures of romance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePresented as a dense 500-page sequence, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSomewhere\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eactivates the archive and the typology as a source of human joy and communion while emboldening his subjects and unlocking the deep essence of di\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eerent places worldwide. Youkilis embraces the real by engaging with both ephemerality and sincerity, while steeped in reverence for the photographic medium through a meticulous engagement with composition, colour, chiaroscuro and framing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Loose Joints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40809091498082,"sku":"","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0866\/5580\/files\/01_f30349d6-653c-4330-a86c-0401854279e0.jpg?v=1709673805","url":"https:\/\/actualsource.org\/products\/sam-youkilis-somewhere-2017-2023","provider":"Actual Source","version":"1.0","type":"link"}