New Releases – Daylight Books

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119468112 pages; 50 Photographs9 x 10 inches$50 USForeword by Lily Brewer*Books will ship in October/NovemberImages mediate political operations, public and covert. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine the most significant events of the last century without the photographic forms in which they were captured. Lesser known and suppressed activities that have greatly impacted modern global power dynamics also leave photographic traces, and in many cases, photography has been at the center of clandestine actions by state and parapolitical actors. Critical Collection is an assemblage of declassified archival photographs and other found images processed and re-contextualized by artist and researcher Evan Hume. He obtains this source material primarily from the Central Intelligence Agency, National Archives, and National Reconnaissance Office. With photographic intelligence gathering at its core, Hume’s work expands centrifugally, making unexpected visual and conceptual connections that form a complex web of fact and speculation. At a time of AI proliferation and heightened global tension, Critical Collection encourages viewers to look closely at remnants of the once-secret imaging systems that have shaped the world and imagine what remains unseen. Evan Hume is an artist and educator living in Ames, Iowa, where he is Assistant Professor of Photography at Iowa State University. He earned his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA from George Washington University. Raised in the Washington, DC area, Hume's approach to photography is informed by the experience of living in the nation’s political center for much of his life and focuses on the medium’s use as an instrument of the military-industrial complex. He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions and his work has been featured by publications such as Aperture, Der Greif, Financial Times, and Fisheye. Hume’s first monograph, Viewing Distance, was published by Daylight Books in 2021. Lily Brewer holds a Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh specializing in modern and contemporary portrait and landscape photography in the United States southwest. Studying the concurrent development between photographic and weapon technologies, Brewer traces the contours of visual culture and history as it relates to war operations, military preparedness, conflict, and weapons testing during and after the Second World War and its visual articulations today. She is editor-in-chief and founder of sedimenta.org. View Details

Critical Collection: Image Intelligence and Empire

Evan Hume

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119475112 pages; 50 Photographs7.5 x 9.5 inches$50 USEssay by Elinor Carucci*Books will ship in October/NovemberWe Keep Swimming, Until We All Reach Home is a project born out of Jillian Guyette’s curiosity for women’s intergenerational relationships, inherited histories, and her esoteric upbringing. This work explores the energy of that connection, alongside Guyette’s ever evolving spiritual curiosity.Jillian Guyette is an American photographer from Rochester, New York. Raised in the Finger Lakes region by a psychic medium and a painter, she received a BFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2012. Her work is profoundly curious about women's familial relationships, and inherited histories.Elinor Carucci is a Fine Art Photographer with work included in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide as well as publications internationally. Her work is in the collections of MoMA, The Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and many others. She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award, The Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA in 2010, and published four monographs todate. Carucci teaches at the graduate programs of photography at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery. View Details

We Keep Swimming, Until We All Reach Home

Jillian Guyette

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119482148 pages; 93 Photographs8 x 12 inches$50 USPhotographs by Judith Goodman and Frank Van RiperText by Frank Van Riper*Books will ship in October/NovemberThe Green Heart of Italy provides an intimate portrait of the lush and verdant region of Umbria, known as ‘Tuscany without tourists.’ The pandemic halted international travel and access to most areas of Europe, creating lasting impacts on these regions which benefit greatly from outside visitors. Now, in the post-Covid reboot of Italy’s ever growing tourist industry, Umbria is poised to attract much needed visitors to help support this central region of the country. The Green Heart of Italy weaves between exteriors and interiors of this unique emerging region, painting a picture of an oasis unknown to most. This monograph also incudes an extensive body of text, written by Frank Van Riper that provides a first hand account of these often overlooked gems.Frank Van Riper and Judith Goodman are husband and wife documentary and fine art  photographers, whose work has been published internationally. Goodman’s photography has hung in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Baltimore Museum; she also is an award-winning assemblage sculptor and a member of the Washington Sculptors’ Group. Van Riper’s photography is in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) as well as the Portland Gallery of Art (Portland, Maine.) His 1998 book of photography and essays, Down East Maine: A World Apart, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the silver award for photography from the Art Director’s Club of Metropolitan Washington. View Details

The Green Heart of Italy

Frank Van Riper and Judith Goodman

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119437112 pages; 50 Photographs8.5 x 10.5 inches$50 USEssay by Tony Macaulay *Books will ship in OctoberThe Shankill, a roughly mile long road in Belfast Northern Ireland, is home to a working class, Protestant community. Their history is complex and troubled and yet they have survived with pride and resilience. During the thirty years of sectarian violence, many stories of this community have been told. A Peace Agreement was signed in 1998 and most journalists and photographers packed their bags and left before the ink had dried. But it is still a fragile peace that remains. The Shankill: A Portrait of Pride and Resilience depicts a proud community defined by their traditions, hoping to move beyond their past. It is a portrait of today. Julie McCarthy is a fine art photographer, having taken classes at Maine Media Workshops, International Center for Photography, NYNY and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. Her work has been shown throughout New England and beyond. Tony Macaulay is a Northern Ireland author, leadership consultant, peace builder and broadcaster. Macauley grew up on the Shankill Road. View Details

The Shankill: A Portrait of Pride and Resilience

Julie McCarthy

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119505112 pages; 50 Photographs8.5 x 10.5 inches$50 USEssays by Nancy McCrary*Books will ship in October/NovemberFor two years, Donna Wesley Spencer has been visiting wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centers to learn about and photograph animals and the people who care for them. Every year thousands of wild animals arrive in need of care. Their issues illustrate the problems that are diminishing their numbers - habitat loss, climate change, and human actions. Donna Wesley Spencer is a fine art photographer whose life as a birder led to her current project on wildlife preservation called Recover & Release. She studied photography at the Evanston Art Center during her years living in the Chicago area, as well as in various workshops, and Penland School of Craft. She is a founding member of Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL. She currently lives in a small town in North Carolina.Nancy McCrary has served as co-director of the SlowExposures Photography Festival in Concord, and founded South x Southeast photomagazine, photoworkshops and photogallery. View Details

Recover and Release

Donna Wesley Spencer

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119499112 pages; 40 Photographs10 x 12.5 inches$50 US*Books will ship in October/NovemberOver the last 7 years, having spent many weeks on Hokkaido in the depths of winter, Elizabeth Sanjuan’s Silent Snow reveals the symbolism and symmetry of this quiet landscape. As a seeker of mystery and lover of solitude, the quietude of this land, with its watery blues and gentle, enveloping grays, Sanjuan immediately felt an intimate connection with the muted snowscape. Silent Snow urges one to pause, to explore, as Elizabeth does, the lessons of the single tree; strength in solitude and the will to withstand any storm.Elizabeth Sanjuan is a visual artist whose images examine the people, landscape, and man-made surroundings that define and shape our cultures and communities. Sanjuan reinforces the urgent need to protect the cultural and environmental heritage that defines us all. View Details

Silent Snow: Hokkaido

Elizabeth Sanjuan