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 remarkable 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.

• Jason Fulford (b. 1973, USA) is a photographer, publisher, and educator. A Guggenheim Fellow and co-founder of J&L Books, he centres his practice on the meanings images generate in sequence, transforming the commonplace into open, poetic metaphor. He has served as an Appointed Critic in the Yale MFA Photo program and as a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University. Fulford has published more than a dozen books, including The Mushroom Collector (The Soon Institute, 2010), Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020), The Heart is a Sandwich (MACK, 2023) and Lots Of Lots (MACK, 2024), among many others. Fulford is also the editor of two renowned anthologies: The Photographer’s Playbook (Aperture, 2014, with Gregory Halpern) and Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph (Aperture, 2021). He lives and works in the USA.

• 104pp, 54 colour plates, 240 × 300 mm,
• Section-sewn paper hardcover with double silkscreen and loose insert
  
  
• Edited by Jason Fulford & Sarah Chaplin Espenon
  Designed by Loose Joints Studio
  Published by Loose Joints
  
  
• LJ226, September 2026
• ISBN 978-1-912719-79-2

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