On Not Knowing - Emily Ogden photography Jess Williamson

Jess Williamson

The Awful German Language embraces a state where the combination of word and photograph can resonate or remain dissonant and confused depending on the individual reader

and this publication shows their approved results

sagt das Igelchen zu sich selbst

Thames Log is co-published with the Martin Parr Foundation to accompany an exhibition of the series at the Foundation

On Not Knowing - Emily Ogden photography Jess WilliamsonA beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing. Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by critic Emily Ogden while her children were small, On Not Knowing forays into this rich, ambivalent space. Each of her sharply observed essays invites the reader to think with her about questions she