The Love is... book is the result of a participatory mail art project undertaken by EJ Major between 2004 and 2006 which involved taking a screen-shot of each second of the film Last Tango in Paris and from each one printing a single postcard. These 7000+ postcards were then hand-delivered around London and the West Midlands over the course of two years. On the back the artist printed her Freepost Address and “love is…” Recipients were asked to respond and return the postcard as part of an enq…

The Love is... book is the result of a participatory mail art project undertaken by EJ Major between 2004 and 2006 which involved taking a screen-shot of each second of the film Last Tango in Paris and from each one printing a single postcard. These 7000+ postcards were then hand-delivered around London and the West Midlands over the course of two years. On the back the artist printed her Freepost Address and “love is…” Recipients were asked to respond and return the postcard as part of an enquiry, into love. On a practical level the film has been used as an organisational framework around which to engage strangers. They remain anonymous unless they choose not to be, giving them license to respond candidly. Each postcard has its own story, in terms of its place in the narrative of the film and its journey through the hands of the recipient and subsequently the Post Office. Those that are returned then form part of a collaboration, between strangers, responding to the prompt, love is…

EJ Major is a London-based artist and Lecturer in Photography at Middlesex University. She studied Photography and the Social Sciences at BA level before completing an MFA at Goldsmiths in 2009. Major works with both digital and analogue technologies to create photographic constructs that are, and …

EJ Major is a London-based artist and Lecturer in Photography at Middlesex University. She studied Photography and the Social Sciences at BA level before completing an MFA at Goldsmiths in 2009. Major works with both digital and analogue technologies to create photographic constructs that are, and are not what they seem. Her photographic work often involves an element of performance and is rooted in questions of identity, how we are constructed as human beings and the lexicon of languages we must adapt to and adopt to survive. As a result of winning the Salon Photo Award 2011, EJ Major held her first London solo show in September 2011 at Matt Roberts Gallery.