A Juried Exhibition
of Self-Published Photobooks
2022 ONLINE
CATALOG
Davis Orton Gallery – Griffin Museum of Photography
Jurors
• Crista Dix
Executive Director, Griffin Museum of Photography
• Karen Davis
Curator/Co-Founder, Davis Orton Gallery
Books listed alphabetically by artist’s last name
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Photographer is responsible for all aspects of his/her book except when others credited.
Leah Abrahams – Steve Anderson – Nancy Baron – Peter Baumgartner – Robin Boger – Shannon Davis – Jane Ebaugh & John Verner – Beth Galton – Joe Greene – Lynn Harrison – Jane Hopkins – Judi Iranyi – Doug Johnson – Laura June Kirsch – Sal Taylor Kydd & Dawn Surratt – Julia Kuskin – Flynn Larsen – Tony Loreti – Margaret McCarthy – Linda Morrow – Laila Nahar – Dale Niles – Ann Rosen – Elliot Schildkrout – Jon-Marc Seimon – Robindeep Singh – David Sokosh – Thomas Whitworth – Sharon Wickham
Leah Abrahams
Artist’s website
Do You See What I See?
$20.00
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contributor
Jason Davis, graphic layout
2022
8″ x 8″
pages: 48
images: 35
Perfect Bound
soft cover
Printer: Magcloud
ISBN: 978-0-9800669-5-1
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“Do You See What I See?” is a dos-à-dos book incorporating images from two abstract photographic series captured over a period of several years. What the series have in common is that both are abstractions of lines—one series in color, the other b&w. “The Colors of Jazz” includes photos from numerous countries. The aperture was set to stay open to manipulate lights that were moving or reflect the camera’s movement or both. The graceful lines suggested improvisational jazz—vibrant and compelling. Note: In this dos-à-dos, after completing the first series, the book is closed and flipped upside down to read the second.
The Alien Message series offers the viewer an opportunity to interpret each photo, and write an answer directly into the book, answering the question: What are the aliens saying to us? The actual “messages” are lines of tar filling cracks on roadways. They resemble hieroglyphics, suggesting some form of primitive (or maybe not so primitive) communication.
Bio
Leah Abrahams is a Boston-based visual artist who enjoys shooting abstract subjects, humans, objects in her environment and life in other cultures. She often uses photography (and humor) to share her social commentary on what she sees. Leah has been juried into numerous group shows, and had several one-woman shows. Her work is in the collection of the Brown County Museum, corporations and private collectors. Leah co-founded a co-op gallery in Wisconsin and is currently curating a show of Haifa and Boston artists working in multiple mediums.
Steve Anderson
Artist’s Website
Surruralism:
A Retrospective Part 2
$79.49+
contributors:
Designer: Suzzanne Connolly at Picturia Press
Digital Consultant: Christopher Battles
2021
10 x 8 Inches
number of pages: 99
number of images: 115
Perfect Bound
Printer: blurb
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The photographs in this book are from my ongoing series Surruralism, the merging of surrealism and nature-based aspects of rural life. They explore birth, life, death, randomness, dreams, hidden places, and other worlds. All images in this book are as seen through the viewfinder.There is no digital manipulation.
Bio
Born 1949 in DeKalb Illinois, Steve Anderson grew up on a small family farm. He attended Oregon State University and has lived on the West Coast of the Pacific Northwest for 50+ years.
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Nancy Baron
Artist’s Website
Riders on the Ten
$12.00
contributors:
Kali Malinka, co-designer with Nancy Baron
2022
8.5 x 5.5″
number of pages: 40
number of images: 34
Stapled (This is a Zine)
soft cover
Printer: Mixam (UK)
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Riders On The 10 is a series of portraits of motorcyclists that I’ve passed on the 10 Freeway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs over many years. It’s a challenge that broke up the monotony of countless trips between these two cities. Always vigilant to the sound or far away sight of an approaching biker, I’d tell the person driving to slow down or speed up to find the biker square in my frame, with one chance to get the photo at speeds around 70 mph. California has more motorcyclists than any other state and they have a unique vibe––in style, attitude, and posture. This is my version of literal street photography, connecting (or not) for a few seconds with these iconic motorcyclists.
Note: The zine is read from back to front.
Bio
Nancy Baron was born in Chicago and is now based in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. In her documentary photography Nancy uses portraits, landscapes, and architectural photographs to record the world nearby with a hopeful bias.
Nancy’s work has been shown in group and one-person exhibitions internationally and is held in public and private collections. Her photography has appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Madame Figaro, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, The Telegraph Magazine, and on the Apple, CNN, and BBC websites.
Nancy’s two monographs, The Good Life > Palm Springs and Palm Springs > The Good Life Goes On were published by Kehrer Verlag and are held in the collection of the Library of Congress and in various museum libraries, including MOMA, LACMA, and the Getty, Her third monograph, Palm Springs Modern Dogs at Home, was published by Schiffer Books in September 2020.
Peter Baumgartner
Artist’s Website
Foliage
$ 144.50
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contributors:
Andy Koppel, copy editor
2018
13 x 11”
number of pages: 76
number of images: 32
Perfect Bound
hard cover
Printer: blurb
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While there are branches and berries in these photographs, foliage is the core surface and what a vital surface it is with those green surfaced pores leaking oxygen. Foliage, green until it isn’t, active, transformative, opaque, annual — there’s a lot to love in foliage. There’s a lot to see. These woods change constantly. I wanted to make photographs of nearby woods that look as alive and vibrant as I see them. I wanted to make photographs new and pleasing to the eye, full of robust colors and patterns. I wanted to make photographs which reflect the passage of time over which they were taken — long bright moments of light and color — photographs of the organic chaos of these woods.
Bio
Much of Peter J Baumgartner’s photography is characterized by the deliberate manipulation of imagery to create abstract and painterly landscapes.
Peter’s solo show, ‘Death Valley Elementals’ was exhibited at McKinley Arts & Culture Center, Reno, NV in 2018. His photographs have been exhibited in group shows nationally and online. Ten of his landscapes are in the collection of the National Film Board of Canada. Other prints are in private collections across the USA. In 2004, Sheridan House published his well-reviewed book, ‘London Goes To Sea’. The book is available from the publisher on Amazon.com.
Peter volunteers his photography skills for several local non-profits; most notably his local newspaper and WGBH, the PBS Boston TV affiliate.
Robin Boger
Artist’s Website
Summer . . . A Season in Farlow Park
$125
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contributors:
Christine Car, Graphic Designer
2022
8×8”
number of pages: 68
number of images: 29
Lay Flat Seamless binding
hard cover
Printer: Printique
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For forty years, I lived two blocks from Farlow Park and only knew it as a place to walk through. What had once been described as a “shining jewel” of a pond had degraded into a grass-covered depression spanned by an ugly concrete slab with rusted chain link fencing for sides. During Covid, this park, with a new bridge and restored pond, became my refuge. Every day, my dog, Nellie, and I walked there in what became a morning ritual. The park brought comfort for more than a year as we sought solace from the familiar. The subtle differences we experienced – the sacraments of sun and season – reassured me that time was, indeed, passing. The images shown here depict many moments of grateful awareness. Farlow Park is a small piece of land but has a large footprint in our community’s collective soul.
Bio
During Covid, Robin Boger became intrigued with how experiencing the daily changes in sun and season in the small park near her home became a form of intimate journey. Combining poetry with photography, she invites viewers to share this connection.
Robin’s travel images have been shown at the Chandler Gallery in Cambridge, MA, the Orton Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY, the Amanda Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas, the South X Southeast Photo Gallery in Molena, Georgia, and The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. Online presentations include The Social Documentary Network, “Pairs and Diptychs” on Lenscratch, and “Highlights of NEPR” on “What Will You Remember?”
After completing her studies (Oberlin College, B.A., Duke University, M.A.; and University of Chicago, M.B.A), Robin worked in economic development. A graduate of the New England School of Photography, she also studied printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Shannon Davis
Artist’s Website
Controlled Burn
$350
2022
5x3x1.5”
number of pages: 26
number of images: 20
Handmade matchbook box with an accordion-style book inside.
self-printed, archival pigment prints
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Like many in the US, I am a transplant and have lived in the South longer than anywhere else. I ask locals, How long do I need to live in the South till I’ll be considered a southerner? Their answer is always the same, NEVER. Controlled Burn is a conceptual photography series that explores the smoldering act of assimilation and the pursuit of home.
To illustrate narrative experiences, I combine familiar objects into uncommon assemblages. The wit and juxtaposition of the art-directed still lifes convey mysterious observations while navigating a new place. The combinations become a metaphor for feeling out of place while offering a reframing of regional stereotypes, inviting the viewer to question what is being represented and how it resonates with their own idea of the South.
Bio
With decades of design and motion-directing experience, Shannon Davis chose photography as her medium for making art. Her conceptual projects feature a deep awareness of balancing form and content, exploring mood and motion within a single frame.
Shannon shares her creative passions as a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her project “I Got Somethin’ To Show You” was a Lens Culture Exposure Award Finalist, Ain’t Bad Magazine Top 100 Photography Series, and top ten finalists in the Duke University Lange/Taylor Prize.
Jane Ebaugh & John Verner
Artist’s Website
Care Through Touch: Caring in the Margins
$30
contributors:
Mary Ann Finch
Lee Courtney
2021
10 x 8”
number of pages: 40
number of images: 51
Perfect Binding
soft cover
Printer: Blurb
ISBN: 978-1-00-660632-8
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“Care Through Touch: Caring in the Margins” tells the story of how the Care Through Touch Institute (CTI), a small non-profit organization, came into being in Berkeley, CA. In the early 80’s, CTI provided massage therapy to people living and dying with HIV/AIDS. It chronicles the Institute’s move to San Francisco in the late 90’s where today it is weathering the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout it all, CTI’s mission has always been to bring CARE through TOUCH to people relegated to the margins of society due to poverty and homelessness and traumatized by chronic and life-threatening illness and old age.
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Mary Ann Finch has been a practicing massage therapist for nearly 40 years. In 1987, she founded the non-profit organization, The Care Through Touch Institute (CTI). Mary Ann oversaw the development of this book and was the inspiration for its creation.
Jane Ebaugh had a career in Special Education with a Phd in Literacy. She trained at CTI and has volunteered with the homeless population in New York and California. Jane interviewed the CTI clients, did the initial writing, and helped organize the project.
John Verner is a fine art, commercial and stock photographer. He is represented by Getty Images/ iStock. Most of the photos in the book were taken by John. Additionally, he did much of the writing, editing, and assisted in the book’s design.
Lee Courtney is a fine art photographer who has exhibited her work nationally. Her photographs depict the beautiful atmospheric quality of flowers. As part of the CTI team, she handled the book’s layout and much of the design work.
Beth Galton
Artist’s Website
Covid Diary
$50
contributors:
Sally Herman – Designer
Claire Pellegrino- contributing writer
2022
signed edition of 100
9×7″
number of pages: 68
number of images: 65
Smyth sewn, Pur binding with floating spine
soft cover
Printer: Brilliant Graphics Printer
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This series began in March 2020 when NYC was the epicenter of the pandemic. As I scoured the NY Times and Washington Post for Covid news, I grew concerned that the charts and graphs used to convey the scale of the virus were unequipped to convey the real, emotional toll that the virus was taking. I was determined to use them in my photos. I began to collect screen grabs of this data and to print them out on sheets of vellum. To represent the lives behind the numbers, I combined the data with botanicals and used motion to suggest the chaos and apprehension of life in a pandemic. Now that they are assembled, I see that these images are a visual diary of my life during Covid; the politics of the time and the way it has affected our everyday lives.
Bio
Beth Galton is a photo-based artist, with an educational background in the natural sciences and 3 decades of experience as a professional photographer in the editorial and commercial arena. These elements of her history are the lens through which she explores the world.
Collecting objects, allowing time to affect botanical matter, these are the tools Beth uses to construct still life portraits. The stories speak to the cycles of nature, our connection to aging and mortality, and the fragility and resilience of the human experience. As a lifelong learner, Beth uses current technology to help articulate her message. She loves to harness natural light to capture the compositions by using a large format camera and digital back.
Beth’s fine art and professional work have won numerous accolades and been exhibited extensively throughout her career. Several of her personal projects have gained national and international regard. She lives and works in New York City.
Joe Greene
Artist’s Website
Ashtrays
$40
2022
8.5 x 11”
number of pages: 20
number of images: 22
perfect bound
soft cover
Printer: blurb
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Ashtrays were once ubiquitous. We would see them at home, work, school and in stores and even Doctors offices. Air travel had smoking sections as did restaurants.
Ashtrays are still around, but they cater to a much smaller and specialized audience. So what happened to all the ceramic art deco, plastic atomic age and tin gas station ashtrays? Well I found them and photographed them. Their designs are icons of kitch, mod, retro and whatever your grandmothers living room looked like.
Bio
Joe Greene is aBoston based commercial and fine art photographer. Starting out as a painter, Joe was encouraged by his public school teachers to spend class time studying painting at an artists studio in Harvard Square, Cambridge. This studio specialized in copying classic contemporary works of arts, “Painting the same paintings over and over again helped me understand how light, color and textures work together”
When he couldn’t get his ideas onto canvas fast enough, Joe picked up a camera. By the time he
reached high school, he had a darkroom, two clients and was studying with artist and filmmaker
Ken Brown. Joe also learned the art of the psychedelic light show, by helping out at the Boston
Tea Party concert hall.
Joe studied graphic design and photography at Mass College of Art with Gus Kayafas and the late Paul Muller.
Lynn Harrison
At Peace in Nature
$40
other contributors:
Stuart Schwartz, editor.
2021
7×7”
number of pages: 34
number of images: 12
hard cover
Printer: Blurb
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At Peace in Nature is a collection of intimate landscape photographs of the natural world paired with haikus written to complement the images. My photographs and haikus reflect a deep-rooted appreciation of nature and the serenity I find there.
I have always felt an innate affection for all of nature. As a young adult and countless times since then, I have experienced the wilderness of northern Maine, where beauty and peace can be found in every corner of the landscape. This awareness coupled with my passion for photography have formed the foundation for this book over a lifetime.
Bio
Lynn Harrison is an award winning fine-art landscape photographer who appreciates nature and loves tradition. Her work embraces natural patterns, textures, and reflections, as well as the use of color as a strong design element. Her recent publication, At Peace in Nature, is inspired by Lynn’s love for the wilderness, her spiritual home.
Having earned a BA degree at Wellesley College in 1966, Lynn’s passion for photography led her to pursue workshops with nationally prominent photographers, including her mentor, Sam Abell. Early in her career she exhibited her work in juried shows presented by Maine Photographic Workshops in and a solo showat the Edward S. Curtis Gallery in San Anselmo, CA. In 2003, Lynn co-founded the cooperative, Gallery 302, in Bridgton, ME and has exhibited her work there from 2003 to the present.
Jane Hopkins
Artist’s Website
Cemetery Reflections
$44.95
other contributors:
Some images and poetry listed on copyright page, with permission or in public domain
2022
8.5 x 8.5”
number of pages: 206
number of images: 161
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Printer: BookBaby
ISBN: 979-8-9850294-0-6
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“Step Softly, Here lies a dream.” This epitaph on a child’s gravestone in an historic cemetery in Canada sparked a graveyard quest that has led to the book “Cemetery Reflections.”
Jane Hopkins finds cemeteries a treasure trove of art created from stone by the carver’s tools. These sacred places represent the essence of someone’s life on earth and the loving memories of those left behind–places of solace and comfort, places of mystery. Some are outdoor art museums and landscaped parks. Some hold the history of the community and are centers of celebration and remembrance.
The book has a free-flowing feel, similar to the experience of a walk through the cemetery—sometimes the eye will rest on an artfully carved headstone. Sometimes an epitaph’s sentiments jump out and catch your heart. These are reflected in the poetry and prose paired with the photography, acknowledging the grief and loss that reside along with the beloved.
Bio
For the last twelve years Jane Hopkins has photographed over 200 burial grounds representing 300 years of cemetery art and history. Her background in psychology and social work adds a particular dimension to her experience as a cemetery photographer, sensitizing her to the emotional impact of the cemetery experience.
Jane has exhibited and sold her fine art photographs since 2002. She is a member of Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Association of Gravestone Studies.
She studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC and continued at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Jane lives with her husband Tom on the shore of Lake Ontario.
Judi Iranyi
Artist’s Website
Arg-e-Bam
$ 47.05
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The poems of Hafez” translated by Reza Ordoubadian
2016
10×8”
number of pages: 46
number of images: 20
perfect bound
hard cover
Printer: blurb
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The ruined city of Bam is located in southeastern Iran. It is made entirely of mud bricks, clay, straw, and the trunks of palm trees. The city was originally founded during the Sassanian period (224-637) and while some of the surviving structures date from before the 12th century, most of what remains today dates to the Safavid period (1502-1722).
Bam was a commercial and agricultural center on the famous silk road. It was also a stopping off place for pilgrims visiting its Zoroastrian fire temple.
Bam’s importance declined following an Afghan invasion in 1722 and another invasion in1810. The city was used as a barracks for the army until 1932 and then completely abandoned.
Restoration work began in 1953 continuing until December 26, 2003 when Bam was devastated by a massive earthquake of about 6.6 in magnitude. The earthquake killed more than 26,000 people and resulted in the near destruction of the ruins.
Bio
Judi Iranyi was born in Hungary at the close of World War II. Later she emigrated to Venezuela, and also lived in Trinidad, Barbados, Okinawa and Germany before moving to San Francisco in 1971.
Ms. Iranyi became interested in photography in the sixties. She earned a BA degree in Art/Photography from San Francisco State University. She received an MA degree in Visual Design from U.C. Berkeley; University; and an MSW Degree in Social Work at San Francisco State University. After retirement, Ms Iranyi dedicated her time to photography. She has been published; exhibited in group and solo shows across the United States and Europe; and self-published two books: “Arg-e-Bam,” about the ancient citadel in Iran, and “Remembering Michael,” a tribute to her son, who died of AIDS in 1984.
Doug Johnson
Artist’s Website
Places-Faces
$17.50
other contributors:
Gary Duehr, Foreword
Rebecca Morrison, Editor
2022
8.25 x 8.25”
number of pages: 108
number of images: 75
Perfect bound
soft cover
Printer: Amazon
ISBN: 979-8786485166
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This book contains photographs taken during my first few years as a photographer when everything was new and animated. No subject was off limits and the rule-makers weren’t yet whispering in my ear. If asked, I would have said I was photographing whatever “caught my eye” but even then, 50-years ago, without knowing it, I had preferences – friends, family, home, school, street scenes, people living their lives, telling stories – enduring preferences that still guide me today.
Here’s what I hope you will find in these pages:
• Images that are visually interesting.
• Images that show the joy and energy of a neophyte photographer.
• Images that tell a story or raise a question or bring a smile.
• Images that convey a sense of collaboration between photographer and subject.
• Images that are honest and true and show life without artifice.
Bio
I’m a photographer, writer, illustrator, and printmaker currently living in Hudson, MA. I have published four books of photographs and a book of essays about photography, art and the creative process.
Much of my work focuses on the miracle of daily life — how we make our way in the world, safely and sanely.
Most of what I know comes from collaboration with fellow artists, teachers and mentors (Arthur Meyerson, Nick Johnson, Jay Maisel, Karin Rosenthal, Arno Minkkinen, Billie Mandle, Rebecca Morrison and Sean Kernan).
Laura June Kirsch
Artist’s Website
Romantic Lowlife Fantasies
$48
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edition of 1000
Evan Pricco, editor / introduction author
Patrick Carrie, Designer
Darlene Demorizi, contributing writer
Jessica Amodeo, contributing writer
Brooke Burt, contributing writer
Allyson Toy, contributing writer
Caitlin McGarry, contributing writer
2021
8.25 x 10.75″
number of pages: 176
number of images: 85
smyth sewn binding
hard cover
Printer: SYL
ISBN: 978-1-955125-09-3
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This book is many things: It’s a love letter to the people who lived it. It’s about partying and reckless abandonment, It’s about New York City—namely Brooklyn. It’s a reflection of myself—figuring out who I am in the world. More than anything, it’s a social commentary on my generation.
In many ways, millennials are “generation hopeless”. Security was never a viable option for us. We graduated from high school in the shadow of 9/11 and entered the workforce in the midst of a crippling recession. By our mid 30s, finally getting a grip on our lives, a global pandemic struck.
My 20s looked nothing like I was told they would. There was no settling down. Instead, I embarked on a strange adventure meeting free spirits in cities across America, who were living adult lives in unconventional ways. These photos are a collection from that time period, documenting emerging adults living out their romantic lowlife fantasies.
Laura June Kirsch is an award-winning photographer specializing in branded content, editorial and events. Based in Brooklyn and available for worldwide commissions, her work has appeared in Vogue, Juxtapoz, NY Mag, Vice, Paper and on Today with Hoda & Jenna. She has worked with brands such as VANS, Showtime, Buzzfeed, Google, TUMBLR & more.
Sal Taylor Kydd
& Dawn Surratt
Artists’ Website
A Passing Song
$45
edition of 200
other contributors:
Christina Labey – Designer
Douglas Beasley – Contributor
2022
8 x 11”
number of pages: 65
number of images: 32
Perfect bound
Hard Cover
Printer: Conveyor Press
ISBN: 978-0-9910326-2-4
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During 2020 – 2021, Sal and Dawn embarked on a collaborative project entitled Touchstones. Touchstones was a visual conversation between the two artists that took place online, as week to week they exchanged photographs and wrote poems, creating diptychs that explored connections between the work. The artists would meet each week, on Zoom, which was a lifeline during those difficult times that forged a growing friendship and ongoing artistic collaboration.
This project explored themes of connection, isolation and loss, as well as adaptability and creativity as the world was challenged with the life threatening pandemic. Both artists live on the East coast, separated by two thousand miles in physical terms, but less than a minute in the virtual sense.
Bios
Artists Sal Taylor Kydd and Dawn Surratt are both multimedia artists and poets living in Maine and North Carolina respectively. The have both exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. This is their first collaboration together, exploring themes of connection and loss around the 2020 pandemic.
Julia Kuskin
Artist’s Website
Phone Book
$30
2022
8 1/2 x 8 ½”
number of pages: 68
number of images: 155
Perfect bound
Soft Cover
Printer: Mixam
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About the Book:
This book is created solely from photos taken with my phone, it’s a photo journal of my experiences over the past several years. I love playing with images in relation to one another, creating grids and stories from color, feeling, composition. The design act both compliments the photos and creates a whole other feeling. It’s similar to when you have two voices sing in unison, the sound creates a wholly unique third voice.
Bio
I do my best to photograph what I see; that includes people, places, a moment in time. I’m interested in feeling, color, composition, and light. And my intent is to be able to recreate that, it’s straightforward, not complicated.
My work has been influenced by Sally Mann, Paul Strand, Helen Levitt, Alfred Stieglitz, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Vermeer, Sargent and more. It’s also been influenced by growing up in Brooklyn, spending time in North Eastern Canada, coming from a family of artists, and traveling.
I received my BA from Bard College in Art History, and then after working as a graphic designer, went back to school for Photography at Art Center College of Design.
I live in Seattle, WA with my husband and son.
Flynn Larsen
Artist’s Website
Cosmic Dance
$45
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Name(s) of other contributors:
Marilyn Nelson, Contributing Poet
William van Roden, Designer
12 x 8”
number of pages: 52
number of images: 38
Binding method
Hard cover
Printer: Conveyor Arts
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These photographs of dust are a meditation on the ephemeral rhythms of daily life, the passage of time, and the vastness contained in the smallest overlooked particles in the corner of houses.
Bio
I have been exploring aspects of the domestic sphere for about ten years through still-life, self-portraiture, and video. I am interested in the rhythms of family life and the counterpoint between the minutiae of the day-to-day and the unseen vastness that we exist within.
I am also currently editing a short film of video self-portraits, Perpetual Motion, in which I regain a sense of self through dance in the midst of homelife during a global pandemic.
I was born and raised in New York City, and studied English Literature at Carleton College (Northfield, MN), and Photography at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA). In 2000 I returned to New York from California to start a commercial photography practice, and I have been creating portraiture and documentary work for clients around the U.S. since then.
Tony Loreti
Artist’s Website
Garden in the Fens
$33.57+
2022
7 x 7”
number of pages: 54
number of images: 49
perfect binding
softcover
Printer: blurb
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The Fenway Victory Gardens, created during World War II, are located in the Muddy River section of Boston’s Emerald Necklace, the park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 19th century. Within the Victory Gardens’ seven plus acres are over 500 individual gardens.
Since the 1980’s I have been regularly drawn to making pictures in the Victory Gardens. I have found them a constant source of inspiration. I think it is the fact that the gardens are both a quiet escape from the intensity of the city and a busy place in their own way – in their visual complexity – that attracts me.
Visible in the background of many of the images are the structures of the ever-evolving built city – from old places such as Fenway Park and the Prudential Center to new residential buildings and office towers. In the midst of this continuous change the Victory Gardens reassuringly endure.
Bio
Tony Loreti is a Boston-based photographer and photography educator. He recently retired after teaching photography for twenty-five years at the Cambridge School of Weston. His personal photography has been selected for many juried exhibitions, and a significant portfolio of his street photography work has been purchased for the collection of the Print Department of the Boston Public Library.
Born in Beverly, MA, Tony Loreti earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Filmmaking from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Margaret McCarthy
Artist’s Website
Sentient
$9.95
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2022
8 x 8
number of pages: 22 pages
number of images: 23
Perfect binding
softcover
Printer: MagCloud
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It’s easy to walk by them during the day. At night, like actors in a spotlight, they demanded my attention. As I walked my own New York City neighborhood, I photographed these storefront window mannequins from the street as I passed by.
I was drawn to the theatricality of their self-contained worlds, which seem complete onto themselves. Their theatrical tableaux pose poignant questions: What makes us human? How do we each create our own identity? How fragile is that identity? How fragile is our own humanity? They suggest a future shared with A.I., in virtual worlds. They speak to our vulnerability, our mortality, and the constant possibility of dislocation.
Bio
Margaret McCarthy is an artist using photography, poetry and theatre.
Exhibitions include: the Fogg Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of photography, the Overseas Press Club and the Hudson River Museum, as well as numerous galleries, universities and public exhibition spaces. Her work is part of the Kinsey Institute Art Collection.
Fine art publications: BW Gallerist (Best of Best) Artzealous, (Photographers to Watch) Lenscratch, Shadow And Light Magazine, Museè Magazine, aCurator, le Journal de la Photographie, Elizabeth Avedon’s Photography Blogspot, Arts and Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Writing on Water (MIT Press), Parabola Magazine and South X Southeast Photomagazine.
Honors include American Society Of Media Photographers best of ASMP2020, Honorable Mention,14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award and a Merit Award in 2020’s All About Photo Awards. She’s been named among the “Best of the Best Emerging Fine Art Photographers” by BW Gallerist Magazine and as a “Photographer to Watch” by Artzealous.
Linda Morrow
Artist’s Website
LEARNING TO SWIM
$95
edition of 15
2022
7 3/8 x 7 3/8”
Total number of pages: 14
Total number of images: 11
Hand bound – Accordion Binding
Hard Cover
Printer: Self
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LEARNING TO SWIM took shape over time as I strolled through a beautiful Japanese garden near my home. Fascinated by the koi collection I came upon, I began to photograph the fish and to marvel at their bright colors and flashing speed in the water. Later, I made prints of the koi, rendering them in soft sepia, and began to color each of them with pastels and colored pencil. Next I cut out a stencil of the colored picture and placed it on blue, tissue art paper, photographing these two layers as one. The resulting image allows the transformed koi to swim across a fanciful pond of blue and to float in the imagination.
Bio
Linda Morrow is a fine art photographer and book artist. Born and raised in Arizona, she has spent her adult life in Southern California. Her photographs explore the natural world in terms of landscape and botanicals. In the last decade, she has photographed and produced over a dozen handmade artist’s books as well as learning the art of hand-coloring with soft pastels. Her work has been shown in numerous online galleries, in Davis Orton Gallery/NY, at the Griffin Museum of Photography/Boston, in many private collections and featured in Lenswork and Lenscratch. Her intention always is to make pictures that inspire the mind and engage the heart.
Laila Nahar
Artist’s Website
Unfolding – Color of Life: Old Delhi
$200
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edition of 15
2022
Text by Tanveer Khondker
5.75×5”
Total number of images: 68
9 photo-spreads and 63 pieces of folded papers make up the book block using French Link Stitch Binding. Each spread is composed of 6 to 10 photo-montages forming a fishbone fold (derived from Hedi Kyle) and is 17in long on each side when unfolded. A total of 189 pages unfolds like waves of color (different sizes) as the book is open. Hard cover with image-wrap and cloth spine.
Printer: Self
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As I walked the old city of Delhi it was life at its infinite wondrous variation. Each nook and each corner are at its unique existence, yet no one would exist in its glorious beauty without the rest. A story of one linked to another and none losing its identity.
It is a spectacle of color, fragrance, sound and above all the depth of life. Nothing is orchestrated, yet all are sung from the invisible strings of a great tune. I get pulled and submerged into its comforting depth.
This is a book that symbolizes the unfolding, folding and linkage of life. A life that is vibrant without the pretense of ornamentation. It is life of struggle, unadorned, and, revealed; and it surrounds us, and it penetrates us. The book-form unfolds and depicts the color of life-waves.
Bio
Laila is a lens-based artist based in California, USA. She lived her life in stark cultural contrast, born and brought up in Bangladesh and eventually migrated to the USA. Laila recently retired from the high-tech industry to devote full-time for her passion as a photo and book artist. Laila is primarily a self-taught photographer exploring belonging, memory, cultural and collective identity. Recently, she developed fascination for handmade photobooks and attended workshops with Elizabeth Avedon, Susan Kae Grant; currently working with Melanie McWhorter on her latest book-projects.
Laila had solo exhibitions from ‘Memories from Bangladesh’ in Arizona and California. ‘I Have Been Here Before’ handmade photobook was selected for the ‘12th Annual Self-Published Photobook Show’ in 2021; also featured in PhotoBook Journal and Thinkingaboutphoto. ‘Living with the Tides’ project featured in Inside-the-Outside magazine (2022). Photographs from both projects were in several group exhibitions at LACP, PH21, PhotoPlace, SEC4P, Griffin, 18thJulia Cameron.
Dale Niles
Artist’s Website
What Lies Within: the Eclectic Collections of Andrea M. Noel
$ 85
Other contributors
Laurie Shock-designer, owner of Shock Design
Barbara Griffin-curator and creative director
2021
11.5×10.5”
number of pages: 176
number of images: 150
Smyth-sewn book, a lay-flat binding
Hard cover
Printer: Shock Design
ISBN: 13: 978-0-9963189-6-9
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Who doesn’t collect something? What causes that urge? Maybe to relive and preserve our childhood or revisit a memory, and keep the past living in our present. They also help ease our insecurities and anxieties from loss. This book is a photographic collection of things of little concern to most people, but the way they are meticulously cared for and put out for display gives them a new life, a new meaning, in the form of visual storytelling.
What began as a project documenting Andrea’s 60 categories of collections, transformed into a photographic journey that reveals discarded objects beautifully arranged in artful designs. The experience of working with these collections has been transformative, as I reframe the ordinary into the extraordinary. Her collections are an archive of what came before, reborn as an entertaining, ever-changing story
This is a story worth telling and I am happy to share it.
Bio
Dale Niles majored in sociology at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. While exploring opportunities in her chosen field, she pursued her artistic interests, choosing photography because it offers a wide berth of options for technique, subject matter, and her creative process.
She has exhibited across the US and in Canada, Paris, France, and Venice, Italy. Her prints are held in private collections as well MOCA GA and the Ogden Museum. She was selected for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200, Ones to Watch , the Fence.
Featured publications include: Light and Shadow Magazine, SouthxSoutheast, Shots, Lenscratch, The HAND, AllAboutPhoto, The Edge of Humanity and Oxford American.
Her book, What Lies With: the Eclectic Collections of Andrea Noel received recognition from Elizabeth Avedon as best photography book of 2021.
Ann Rosen
Artist’s Website
Ascending Toward Normalcy: A Pandemic Diary
$65
Edition size
2022
5.75″ x 5.75″
number of pages: 16
number of images: 14
Hand bound: Drumleaf Accordion binding
Hard Cover
Printer: self
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When the lockdown hit my first response was to pull out my 1969 Rolleiflex camera and start shooting black and white film. I’d not developed film for many years, having switched to digital photography in the early aughts. Using a close-up lens, I took pictures of those who surrounded me – my husband, colleagues, neighbors, a few visitors, and dance pals. I asked everyone I photographed to respond to this question, “What do you think of this pandemic world?” The responses ranged from despair over the loss of a loved one to anger over police brutality, to how life was slower, more considerate, and more soulful.
Bio
Ann Rosen graduated from SUNY, Buffalo, BFA and Visual Studies Workshop, MFA studying with Joan Lyons, John Wood and Keith Smith. She has received several grants from the Brooklyn Art Council and Puffin Foundation and has attended residencies at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester; VCCA, Virginia; 360 Xochi Quetzal, Mexico; Mauser Foundation, Costa Rica.
Ann’s work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art Library; Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Her project, In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits is permanently a part of the Brooklyn Collection.
Ann’s solo exhibitions include Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn; Webster University; Brooklyn Public Library; Long Island University. Her group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, Henry Street Settlement, CIIS, San Francisco; Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in the Village Voice; NY Times; Newark Sunday Star Ledger; Brooklyn Courier; Pfizer Journal.
Elliot Schildkrout
Artist’s Website
Standing in the Mirror
$135
contributor:
Caleb Cole
2022
12×12”
number of pages: 86
number of images: 68
Perfect bound
hard cover
Printer:blurb
ISBN: 979-08210452818
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Standing in the Mirror is a book of self-portraits and poetry that explores the complexity of our personal narrative as time weaves itself through our lives. The past, our dreams, realized and lost, our dangling hopes, are all a part of how we each define ourselves. The narrative is never static as much as we like to fool ourselves about who we are. Standing in the Mirror, although quite personal, speaks to those interested in how we might better age wisely. Although the book was born in the isolation of Covid it explores universal and timeless themes.
Bio
Elliot Schildkrout began photography in the 1960s in a course with Lisette Model at the New School in New York City. At the University of Rochester, Elliot studied with William Giles, a student of Minor White. While practicing medicine, he continued making photographs. His work wasaccepted into the Polaroid collection and was published in Barbara Hitchcock’s, The Polaroid Book, published by Taschen. For the last 15+ years, he has been working full time as a photographer. In the last years he has primarily focused on multiple imagery and thin line between the abstract and the representation. He was represented by the 555 Gallery in Boston.
Jon-Marc Seimon
Artist’s Website
kaddish
$ 79.39
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2022
10 X 8”
number of pages: 48
number of images: 74
Perfect binding
HardCover
Printer: blurb
ISBN: 9798211857629
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Upon the death of his father, a Jewish atheist approaches the ritual of Kaddish with trepidation, but finds a form, involving daily photographic practice and social media, that infuses the experience with personal relevance.
Bio
Jon-Marc Seimon has been taking photographs seriously for almost fifty years. A native South African, he worked for a human rights organization during the dark days of apartheid in the 1980s, and travelled extensively in India and South Asia before settling permanently in New York, where (after a brief stint as a photo assistant) he became a pioneer in the heady early days of web design.
His long professional life as a user experience designer for some of the biggest ad agencies in the world has mellowed—since the beginning of the pandemic—into a more dedicated photographic practice, which is where most of his efforts now lie. He resides in the Lower Hudson Valley with his wife (an artist and writer) and their two rambunctious dogs, one blind, one fierce.
Robindeep Singh
Artist’s Website
The Black Diary
$ 35
2022
5.5 x 8.5”
number of pages: 66
number of images: 35
Perfect Bound
soft cover
Printer: Amazon
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I don’t know if I really want to write out the meaning of my work in words. Not that I can’t, but that would be equivalent to turning my back on the audience. That would deny them their own experience and truth within the piece, but maybe I can share why I created this photo diary. It’s to represent truth as I see it. Maybe this truth has no place in the modern world, but as a photographer, I can at the very least hold a mirror up to the world. In this sense, it can live on beyond the time it was sculpted in.
Bio
I’ve been a photographer for the past 12 years of my life. Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve always been fascinated by the image. That curiosity grew as I got older. It never went away, maybe because to this day, I still don’t truly understand what the meaning of an image is. There are moments where I feel like I’m close to discovering the truth, but then it reveals another set of stairs one must climb. The images I’m showing you within each of these books are that very journey. Each photobook reveals a truth, my truth. Then I have to climb again.
Robindeep Singh
Artist’s Website
Anywhere, but Nowhere
$ 60
2020
8.5×11”
number of pages: 128
number of images: 142
Perfect Bound
Soft Cover
Printer: Amazon
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This is the first photobook (or as I like to call it – a Photo Diary) I created. At that point, I had been creating images for 8 years.
Looking back, the meaning of ‘Anywhere, but Nowhere’ has changed for me. It is an origin story, representing the fiery passion of a young boy sculpting his vision. I’m still that boy deep down inside.
Bio
I’ve been a photographer for the past 12 years of my life. Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve always been fascinated by the image. That curiosity grew as I got older. It never went away, maybe because to this day, I still don’t truly understand what the meaning of an image is. There are moments where I feel like I’m close to discovering the truth, but then it reveals another set of stairs one must climb. The images I’m showing you within each of these books are that very journey. Each photobook reveals a truth, my truth. Then I have to climb again.
David Sokosh
Artist’s Website
Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not the moon)
$595.00
2022
Edition of 50
Size (inches): 6.6 x 6.5 x 1.5″
number of pages: 46
number of images: 16
Accordion binding
Hard Cover
Printer: Self – cyanotype prints
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A playful exploration of objects that look like the moon which questions our perception vs. reality in photographs. Can be displayed as an object.
This is about our perception versus reality. The moment we decide that something we see in a photograph is true. What makes us decide? Swiss Cheese has craters but we are not convinced. But NiteLite? The moment we see it we decide that, this IS the moon and all the others are imposters. In reality NiteLite is not the moon but merely a plastic ball with a light bulb in it. It looks so much more like the moon than the rest that it becomes real and we, demanding truth, decide to believe!
Bio
David Sokosh is a photographer based in Claverack, NY. He shoots film and works in Cyanotype.
His images have been included in: Turning the Gaze: The Male Nude at Equity Gallery, NYC; Time Lapse-Contemporary Analog Photography-Shelburne Museum; Mortals, Saints & Myths-Carrie Haddad Gallery and Exposure 2022, Photographic Resource Center Boston.
His work is in the following collections: Shelburne Museum , The Kinsey Institute, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL ,Pfizer Collection, Polaroid Collection and Richard Gere Collection.
Sokosh holds a BA in Photography from WCSU. He worked in New York as client liaison at Kelton Labs and was gallery director at Underbridge Pictures in DUMBO.
Thomas Whitworth
MORE CONSTRUCTED SCENARIOS
Photographs by Thomas Whitworth
$45.00
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2021
Size (inches): 8.5″ x 11.5″
Total number of pages: 32
Total number of images: 26
Perfect Bound
Hard Cover
Printer: Snapfish
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This is the second book in the CONSTRUCTED SCENARIOS series. The still lifes are built using HO scale model train figures, vehicles, structures, and lights. The backgrounds are 20″ x 30″ photographic prints of actual skies and landscapes. The objects and backgrounds are positioned and lighted to blend the 3D and 2D together visually. The finished images can be presented as backlit transparencies or as archival pigment prints.
Intentionally created to engage viewers in their invented scenes, the tableaus reveal their manufactured falsehoods- they are specific enough to be familiar, but not so realistic as to be convincing illusions.
These images are both story and still life, photographic reality and theatrical performance, small scale illusion and real world mimic. They require the analysis of their elements and an engaged interpretive skill– abilities still needed in our current image and misinformation environment.
Bio
Thomas Whitworth has exhibited in solo and and group exhibitions at the local, state, national, and international level for over forty years.
His work is in the collection of: The State of Louisiana, Bank of America, Chicago, IL. New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. Sackler Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. and private collections.
His awards include the Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship 2005 and 1993, Editions Ltd. Gallery Award 70th Indiana Artists Show, Indianapolis Museum of Art, First Place Juror’s Award, Tampa Biennale.
Whitworth was previously Professor of Fine Arts- University of New Orleans; Assistant Professor- Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN.; Visiting Artist- University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. He received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA from California State University, Fullerton, CA and a BFA- Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Sharon Wickham
Artist’s Website
Seeing Paint with Joan
$40
2022
6.25 x 9.25”
number of pages: 52
number of images: 51
Perfect Bound
Hard cover
Printer: blurb
ISBN: 9798211986961
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Joan Mitchell was a leading American Abstract Expressionist Painter and Printmaker whose career spanned more than 4 decades. She was an active participant in the New York School of Artists in the 1950’s.
Formerly a painter, from SFAI, I was feeling quite consumed by Mitchell’s recent retrospective at SFMOMA, and this…is as I see It.
Bio
Sharon Wickham is a Traditional Photographic Artist, with a Twist. Experimenting with various themes over extended periods of time. Wickham’s most over-arching theme being: “When things fall apart, and come together”.
Her has shown her work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally.
Wickham’s photographs are included in private collections, as well as in the SFMOMA Collection, Portland Art Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.