Frozen Features (PRE-ORDER)
Jason Fulford
Loose Joints
Available to pre-order - this title is due to ship in September
104 pages
54 colour plates
240 × 300 mm
Section-sewn paper hardcover with double silkscreen and loose insert
ISBN 978-1-912719-79-2
Fulford fuses time and space through photomontage into a single waking dream, inviting us to find the mystical lodged inside the everyday, felt before it’s understood.
For nearly thirty years, Jason Fulford has built a practice on the conviction that meaning lives less inside any single photograph than in the sequence and the things that happen around it – individual pictures forced to rhyme, echo, or collapse into dissonance against their neighbours, across books, exhibitions, publishing and performance. Frozen Features pushes that instinct one step further, into a visual language of layers randomly composed from images made between 1996 and 2026. The results are a beguiling narrative governed by composition and chance – a kind of metaphysical slot machine that scours memory and returns it two frames at a time, guided by intuition.
Fulford’s pairings bounce freely across scale, place, and chronology: the smallest coiled leaf set against a vast vista, a silhouetted hand floating across a bedspread, the scrawled markings of civilisation laid directly over landscape until each image reads like a palimpsest, something continuously written upon, older writing always surfacing beneath the new. Dry humour drifts in and out, formal echoes accumulate, and the slippery relationship between any single picture and the story collapses inside square frames abundant with detail and charged with the subliminal.
In 1942, Barbara Morgan wrote that “modern life is photomontage,” two unrelated things sharing one instant the way thought and feeling already do. Frozen Features takes her at her word, sidestepping montage’s weight as historical technique in favour of something closer to play, an irresistible, intuitive mix that goes, boldly and without hesitation, straight to the heart.
