On view through July 10, 2025

Passages: A grouping of ten photographs by Stuart Klipper held in the Tweed’s permanent collection

“There’s a fractal element to making a journey. A journey can be made at any scale; and be comprised of iterative tangents—small or larger detours that are part and parcel of the journey as a whole. I can get out of my car, cross the street and land on your doorstep—that’s easily a journey. Transecting an ocean or a continent, well that clearly is another sort of journey. Still and all, the intrinsic dynamics remain the same. I’ve spent quite a bit of time on seagoing vessels and observed the process of navigation. Lines on charts; lines from one way point to the next—it’s the lines that are important; what’s in between the points, what happens during the passage that determines how things will be at the next point along the way. It’s passing through the world that holds meaning, whatever the scale. To flush out a metaphor here, the waypoints can be the photographs you make; what transpires beforehand can determine what they will be.”

Stuart Klipper
Excerpt from interview with Liz Gudmundson, Lesphotographes (France)

Credit: Installation view, Passages, 2025. Photographs by Stuart Klipper. Gift of the artist. © Stuart Klipper