++++ June 2011: Gauche Protocol shifts Base Camp 1,500km northeast. ++++ Online Shop re-opens once we’re installed in Berlin.
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Jose Antonio wearing his Gauche Protocol scarf at his home in Poblenou, Barcelona Photo: Annie Olivia
Matteo wearing one of his Gauche Protocol scarves at his home in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona Photo: Annie Olivia
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
—Aldous Huxley, 1962
The Press Conference, June 9, 2008 Photo: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
In June 2008, the potographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin moved around Afghanistan, embedded in the British Army. They rejected the daily chase after the best war shot - they didn’t take a camera to the front. For their series The Day Nobody Died, they carried with them instead a light-proof cardboard box containing a 50m roll of photographic paper - which they exposed to the sunlight bit by bit. The abstract colour strains of the stills may be viewed as a radical gesture of denial - and of impotence before the horrors of modern warfare.
Two Guedras (Morocco, 1971) Photo: Irving Penn
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I USED TO BE DIFFERENT
“I used to be different.” My friend Simon said it to me once, shrugging his shoulders and closing an outline of his curriculum back in October 2008. The apparent simplicity and weightlessess of the sentence charmed me, so I wrote it down: Maybe I would one day find the right army surplus item for this phrase - then I would turn both into a Gauche Protocol design.
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The cotton handkerchief that is the basis of this scarf design was originally destined for use by the National People’s Army: the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (Eastern Germany) that were disestablished in 1990. The handkerchief was manufactured by the VEB Oberlausitzer Textilbetriebe in the area of Dresden and is available with tartans in one of three colours: brown, green or blue. The scarves have been silk-screen printed in two colours by hand in a limited edition of 30.
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Sometimes, we look back on our own lives. For whatever reason: To tell a tale, to psychoanalyse, to kill time, to never forget that feeling - just to name a few good reasons for it. The best thing - the one certain thing - that we can take from these reflections is this: I used to be different. (And I am always new.)
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Christian wearing his Gauche Protocol scarf in the Raval, Barcelona www.gaucheprotocol.com
Photo: Annie Olivia
Whitewashed Heart on a Sycamore Tree (Barcelona, 2011) Photo: Annie Olivia
The Last Summer of Childhood, Russian Vogue (June 1999) Photo: Jürgen Teller
Saül wearing his favourite Gauche Protocol scarf in Poblenou, Barcelona www.gaucheprotocol.com
Photo: Annie Olivia
Portrait, Twist Magazine N°8 (March 2011) Photo: Lionel Guyou
Just found this fashion portrait inspired by “Tinker, Tailor”, a counting game, nursery rhyme and fortune telling song traditionally played in England, that can be used to count cherry stones, buttons, daisy petals and other items. The most common modern version is: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief.”
Information Source: Wikipedia
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen
Gunilla Wounded (Paris, 1977) from Helmut Newton’s Illustrated N°4: “Dr. Phantasme” (1994)
I’ve got a copy of the magazine. My brother gave it to me some time ago.
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