Talisa Lallai's artist book Post Tropical follows the concept of a travel magazine: it offers unique photo spreads of tropical objects, interspersed with critical essays and reprints of travel advertisements.
Talisa Lallai uses both found images and her own photography to point to the presence of colonialism in the contemporary Global North. The viewer is confronted with impressive images of animals, plants, historical travel slides and stamps, making clear that in the campaign of conquest by the West, photography has just as much to answer for as other art forms.
Talisa Lallai (born 1989 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German photographic artist. Lallai sees photography not as merely a medium for images, but rather as a physical form of expression. The artist makes use of the medium of photography to capture fleeting moments and moods and tells stories in which real and invented events are merged. In her art, Lallai combines certain photographs with salvaged image material, which she reworks, re-photographs or presents anew through image details.
