There’s wolves in the house.
In his photobook, ‘There’s wolves in the house’, Jonah navigates his journey with trauma as a means of finding peace with these events and their effects. Through a fragmented and non-linear narrative, mirroring the fluid and transportive experience of trauma, he recounts the challenging experiences that punctuated his adolescence.
The work consists of photographs taken from Jonah’s personal archive, dating between 2014 and 2019. The selected images have been chosen due to their connection (both literal and by association) with these traumatic events and the subsequent healing journey.
Holding equal weight to the visual material is text. Jonah uses written word to bring together mental and physical landscapes, or the protagonist’s inner and outer world. With the details of these stories left intentionally ambiguous, like half-torn pages of a diary or snapshots of one’s inner monologue, the artist aims to provide an intimate reading experience, to be interpreted and connected to by each reader uniquely.
Buried in the struggle of ‘There’s wolves in the house’, is a story of triumph, though it took many years to reach this understanding. Ultimately, adversity creates character and strength, if approached with enough love and patience. Jonah encourages his reader to take time with the book, read into the story and make of it as they will. It is as much theirs as his own.
The photobook, ‘There’s wolves in the house’ consists of 83 photographs, both film and digital, across 80 pages (162mm x 19.5mm).
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