A special mini edition issued by INDEXG. Printed on 7.5 x 5.5 inches c-type photographic paper. 30 editions, with the Edition Stamp and numbered on verso. This edition also comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity issued by INDEXG.



This photograph is one from the portfolio of seven images selected from the SMOKE Collective. The publishing of the portfolio is to complement the Photo projection event taken place in INDEXG in July, 2007.



Roger Guaus is a member of SMOKE. Smoke is a young art collective comprised of European photographers and artists. The themes that they focus on are freely associative, the writing distinct, the expression uncompromising with an approach marked by questions concerning the new methods of circulation and presentation of photo-based images. The newly-formed Smoke collective is currently exhibiting at the Arles Rencontres 2007 in France.



Explicitly or implicitly, the very name of the collective evokes the murky and mysterious world of a dissolving screen or image: an opaque and ephemeral curtain or the mature rejection of public imagery, including transparency of meaning or tradition-bound, conservative aesthetism.



The photograph featured in GOOD Edition belongs to a group of work in progress called 'Don't leave me alone'. It is about solitude, loneliness, about leaving the city to live in the countryside, about the losing of all things loved. Roger took this photo of two friends. It was dark night, both were drunk and they hugged each other while they fell down. Roger captured this moment with complicated feelings - love of his friends and yet in fear of losing them.



Roger Guaus (Spain) lives and works in Barcelona. Contrary to first appearances, Guaus is not attempting to document his life or explore journalistic work per se, nor is he endeavouring to develop any conceptual idea through his images. For him, the real difficulty is to find the "photographic state" that allows him to take photographs with the emotion and deep feeling of belonging associated with the specific experiences that define a life, his life. He treats recurrent subjects and themes throughout the trajectory of his work, having said "with time I realize that loneliness, love and pain are elements that I repeat constantly." His work in progress is based on what he calls "Photograpy of the Experience," a collection of images of his life's experience since he left Barcelona to live in the countryside. Since the beginning of 2007, he has been represented by the Galeria Sicart in Barcelona.