Evolution

by Katherine Oktober Matthews

How are we to understand the changes that have taken place over time? How are we even to see them? Looking from one moment to the next, or one image to the next, it’s difficult to identify the moment of change. The ‘before’ and ‘after’ are clearly visible, but where exactly does the evolution occur? Could photography – that brilliant medium of ‘capturing time’ and ‘freezing moments’ – give us a glimpse into the arcane?

178 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2015

About the author

Katherine Oktober Matthews is an artist, author, editor and independent publisher. Her self-published book I Love Animals (2017) was shortlisted for the Arles Photobook Award and selected for the Athens Photo Festival book exhibition. Her book Elsewhere, a personal essay in words and photographs, is forthcoming (Leaping Man, 2025).

In addition to her own creative practice, she is an authority in the international photography art world as an editor, journalist, and critic, most notably in her former role as Chief Editor of GUP Magazine. She is the author of Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity (2018), and is a freelance mentor and consultant to working artists and creative entrepreneurs. In 2017, she founded Riding the Dragon, an online platform dedicated to consolations on the challenge of creation, and in 2018, she launched House of Oktober, an independent arts publishing house, and Useful., an online platform of activities to explore meaning and fulfillment in the new world of automation and post-work.