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Anna Fox – The Cockroach Diary
Anna Fox British photographer and professor at the University of the Creative Arts. The video below features Anna Fox talking a little about her major projects so far – that is until the video was pubished circa 2010.
Fox explains in the video, she presented the Cockroach Diary in a very personal way. The work is presented in a sleeve containing two little books. The photographs are featured in a separate book, while the diary itself is in a spiral bound book containing scans of Fox’s actual diary, giving it an authentic feel.
Although the photographs feature cockroaches and their traces, the narrative is more about the family and friends living in Fox’s house at the time and their dysfunctional relationships with comic and sad elements to it.
References
YouTube. (2018). Anna Fox / Cockroach Diary & Other Stories / Impressions Gallery. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86X0iPO_iw&feature=youtu.be [Accessed 9 Oct. 2018].
Durdan, M. (2009). Anna Fox: Photographs 1983-2007 – FOTO8. [online] FOTO8. Available at: http://www.foto8.com/live/anna-fox-photographs-1983-2007-2/ [Accessed 9 Oct. 2018].
Fano, N. (2013). ASX Interviews Anna Fox (2013). [online] AMERICAN SUBURB X. Available at: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/06/interview-anna-fox-asx-interviews-anna-fox-2013.html [Accessed 9 Oct. 2018].