The Third Person (Plural) artist’s book reworks an extensive archive of postwar U.S. informational films and newsreels into a printed form, translating moving-image material into still photographs through the visual language of the illustrated popular press. Structured as eight magazine-like chapters and punctuated by collaborative “letters to the editor,” the book assembles layered images and texts into a polyphonic work that functions simultaneously as artwork, critical reading, and photobook.

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and of Armenian descent, Aikaterini Gegisian is a visual artist, filmmaker, educator, and researcher whose practice is rooted in image-making. She lives between London and Thessaloniki, where she also tends a small homestead—an extension of her interdisciplinary approach to art and life. Working across collage, film, photography, installation, and textile design, her practice engages a feminist re-reading of optic technologies. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Venice Biennale (Golden Lion-winning Armenian Pavilion, 2015), Mathaf (Doha), ICP (New York), the National Arts Museum of China (Beijing), MOMus (Thessaloniki), BALTIC (Newcastle), Spike Island, IVAM and Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Her films have screened at festivals such as Oberhausen and Videoformes, and her work is held in collections including the V&A and Frac des Pays de la Loire. She often employs the photobook form; in 2015 she published her first photobook, A Small Guide to the Invisible Seas (Venice Biennale), followed in 2020 by Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK); both met with international acclaim. She has recently published her third book, Third Person Plural (BÜCHS’N’BOOKS), which engages with postwar U.S. archival film material to examine the formation of gendered political imaginaries.