Jacqueline Hassink: Unwired - Tapa blanda

Jacqueline Hassink goes off the grid to map our digital fixation... to remind us of the fundamental human need for inner peace.--Yoko Choy "Wallpaper "

"Jacqueline Hassink's unconventional photography book Unwired explores our longing for places that are off the grid with no connections to digital communication."--DW

"Unwired was born from Hassink's desire to find places that offer neither cell phone reception nor wifi capability. The result is a series of arresting landscapes and interiors which stand in deliberate contrast to iPortrait"--NY Art Beat

"images are of faraway remote regions like the Japanese island of Yakushima and the Norwegian island Svalbard, showing us often desolate landscapes and proving how far one has to travel to be free from connectivity. The peaceful landscapes are contrasted with Hassink's 'iPortrait' images; a series of unposed, taken from the hip pictures of travellers on subway networks in Shanghai, London, New York and Tokyo who are engrossed in their smartphones. Images include information on the inhabitants of each cities phone usage and gives us an insight in to just how much we now rely on these devices and maybe how anti-social we are ultimately becoming."--Fused Magazine

"confronts us with our smartphone addiction and appeals to our fundamental need for mental rest."--Rianne Van Dijck "Bint Photobooks "

"Unwired, by Jacqueline Hassink, ... extends her interest in networks of global socioeconomic power into the realm of digital media, specifically the now-symbiotic connection between smartphone and user."--Aesthetica

Unwired combines two concurrent projects from the Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink (*1966 in Enschede), both of which sharpen our eye for an increasingly digitally connected world. In Unwired Landscapes she has sought out places where it is impossible to build a network, where there is pure radio silence, so to speak―remote areas like the Japanese island of Yakushima, the Norwegian group of islands Svalbard known as Spitsbergen, or the uninhabitable volcanic desert of Iceland are caught by her lens, as are artificially created dead zones in urban spaces, such as a Digital Detox Hotel in Baden Baden.Initially, her second project, iPortrait, seems to be the exact opposite of her first. In this project Hassink portrays people immersed in their smartphones in the subways of big cities such as New York, Paris, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Seoul, and Tokyo. Here, she reveals the other side of digital networking, which interferes with direct contact between human beings.