The Crooked Times by Ananya Saraf

Do you feel like every time you open the newspaper: information and images explode and punch your face? Expressions of frustration, aggression, movement, and noise?

Artist Book ‘The Crooked Times’ is a playful spin on the information overload of today, drawing from images found in Singaporean daily newspaper ‘The Straits Times’. Through unexpected juxtapositions and a wicked sense of humour, it explores the peculiar elasticity of newspaper imagery. How photographs shift in meaning when placed in new contexts. The pairings also make you reflect: a disaster from one part of the world might sit beside a celebration from another, asking you to notice the contradictions the newspaper holds every day. The unbound form invites interaction. Shuffle the pages and land on new unique juxtapositions to create your own meaning and humour. "Look at this one - there's no text but it's so funny!" - overheard at ‘CUT COPY PASTE’, a zine fair in Singapore.