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Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084761148 pages; 70 Black and White and Color Photographs12 x 10 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN Photographs by Mark ParascandolaEssay by Michael Berry China, poised to become the world's largest film market, is home to an expansive state-supported movie and television industry. On an unparalleled scale, entire towns have been built around making movies. Given film censorship codes in China, period films provide a safe and familiar format to tell stories based around “official” narratives. The movie sets, rivaling real-world cities and monuments in their scale, have themselves become destinations for domestic and international tourists. Despite the fiction, they bear witness to a dynamic and changing China. Mark Parascandola is an award winning photographer based in DC. His book Once Upon a Time in Almería was published by Daylight in 2017Michael Berry is a professor in the department of Asian languages and culture at UCLA View Details

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai

Mark Parascandola

Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 978194208470996 pages; 36 Color Photographs10 x 10 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN Photographs by Charlotta María HauksdóttirForeword by David RosenbergEssay by Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir. Sense of Place consists of assembled and layered photographs of the artists homeland Iceland. The composite, textured landscapes are a re-creation of places and scenes that suggest the imperfections of memory as well as the interplay of effects between man and nature. Utilizing human fingerprint patterns in the work also evokes the uniqueness of our connection with nature and our impressions upon it.Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic artist based in California. Her work has been exhibited around the world, with solo exhibitions in the USA, Russia, and Iceland. She has received a number of awards and has been published in several magazines and books. Her work is part of numerous public and private collections all over the world.Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir is a doctor of Environmental Philosophy and an associate professor in Iceland. View Details

A Sense of Place: Imprints of Iceland

Charlotta María Hauksdóttir

Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084761122 pages; 45 Color Photographs10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN Photographs by Cooper DoddsContributions by Peter Geye and Chris LambFor two weeks every winter, a rarefied group of ski jumpers travel the Midwest competing in a Five Hills Tournament across some of America’s most notable ski jumps. Thousands of fans pack local ski clubs to witness competitors launch themselves from the large towers that rise menacingly above the flat Midwest landscape. A ski jumper himself, Cooper Dodds’ color photographs highlight a Nordic tradition transplanted in middle America and sustained through extensive volunteer support and young athletes obsessed with the art of flying. Cooper Dodds studied photography in Minnesota and his home state New Hampshire and now lives and works in Brooklyn. He is 2019 Eastern Ski Jumping Champion and has skied the Midwest Tour every year for the past decade. Peter Geye is the author of three award-winning novels. A former ski jumper, he lives and works in Minneapolis. Chris Lamb is a New Hampshire native and former USA Ski Jumping team member. He ski jumped competitively for nearly twenty years, seven of which were spent on the international circuit, and he continues to fly for fun when possible. Chris holds a BA in environmental studies, philosophy, and literature from Marlboro College and is pursuing an MA in English at the University of Idaho. View Details

Jumper: Flying in the Heartland

Cooper Dodds

Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084730128 pages; 54 Black & White and Color Photographs9 x 6 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN Photographs by Jordanna KalmanEssay by Jennifer Murray Little Romances contains photographs of photographic prints combined with personal elements from the artist. Most all of the images reflect questions and anxieties about being a woman, navigating what that means; what is expected of the artist as a mother, daughter, wife or lover. The series was originally motivated by the recurrent use of the artists images online without her permission. By reclaiming and re-photographing these images the artist seeks to obscure the images original intent to create a new narrative. Jordanna Kalman is an artist based in NY state. Jennifer Murray is an artist, educator and the Executive Director of Filter Photo in Chicago. View Details

Little Romances

Jordanna Kalman

Book Details: Cloth over boardISBN-13: 9781942084723144 pages; 50 Color Photographs10 x 9 inches$50 US; $72.50 CAN Photographs by Peter Bogaczewicz Foreword by Edward BurtynskyEssays by Karen Elliott House and Rodrigo Orrantia Kingdom of Sand and Cement explores the challenge of progress Saudi Arabia is faced with as it rapidly transforms from a conservative and tribal desert culture to an influential world power. In less than a century Saudi Arabians went from living in mud buildings to commencing work on the world's tallest skyscraper. Examining this legacy through large-format color photographs the artist identifies the country's grand aspirations as clearly as its grand failures. Peter Bogaczewicz is a photographer and architect based in Toronto and currently residing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Karen Elliott House is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of “On Saudi Arabia.” She resides in Princeton, NJ.Rodrigo Orrantia is an art historian and curator living in London, England.Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world's most accomplished contemporary photographers. He resides in Toronto, Canada. View Details

Kingdom of Sand and Cement: The Shifting Cultural Landscape of Saudi Arabia

Peter Bogaczewicz

Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 9781942084754144 pages; 55 Duo-tone Photographs12 x 8 inches$50 US; $72.50 CAN Photographs by Bil Zelman Foreword by E.O. WilsonThis collection of noir-ish photographs presents numerous elements of the natural world imperiled by humanity’s havoc. Bil Zelman highlights the impacts of non-native and invasive species, the current Holocene Extinction and the fragile places where man and nature collide. The series consists of a series of specimens and landscapes, shot at night, accompanied by researched and in-depth captions that seem to walk the line between visual evidence and photographic art.Bil Zelman is a photographer and filmmaker based outside of Los Angeles, CA.E. O. Wilson is a two-time Pulitzer-winning author and biologist. View Details

And Here We Are: Stories from The Sixth Extinction

Bil Zelman

Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 978194208469396 pages; 35 Color Photographs11 x 10 inches$50 US; $72.50 CAN Photographs by Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew MroczekFatherland exposes the scars born from decades of violent hate crimes throughout Peru’s cities, deserts, the Andes, and the jungles of the Amazon. Although no assailant is shown, the series underscores the dangerous effects of patriarchy and intolerance, and examines how these constructs create toxic environments that lend little worth to LGBTQ lives. To give voice to the victims, each image is captioned with their name, age, and the year, location, and nature of the assault. The work of collaborators Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo (Peru, 1976) & Andrew Mroczek (USA, 1977) focuses on aspects of marginalization as the result of patriarchy as a social system, along with themes of masculinity, gender identity and gender roles as they effect the LGBTQ communities, most recently, in Peru. View Details

Fatherland

Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek