New Releases – Daylight Books

Book Details: Hardcover with Dust JacketISBN-13: 9781954119079128 pages; 50 Color Photographs10 x 10.5 inches$45 USFeatured in: L’Oeil de la Photographie and Arts Konbini.For years Northern New Mexico’s dominant Hispanic population has erected powerful and poignant descansos or roadside memorials to remember family and friends killed in automobile accidents. Mortal Highway offers an intimate view in photographs and verse into the lives of families who find expression of their grief in these increasingly elaborate works of art. Judith Hidden Lanius is a New Mexico photographer and writer. View Details

Mortal Highway

Judith H Lanius

Book Details: Hardcover with Dust JacketISBN-13: 978-1-954119-11-692 pages; 45 Black & White Photographs11 x 9 inches$45 US“A Long & Echoing Light takes us on a deep and meditative journey, reframing the artist’s familiar interiors, routines and objects into softening abstraction, breaking their lines and finding solace in their presence during a long period of isolation during the pandemic.” - Michael FoleyFeatured in: LF Magazine.Over the course of the pandemic, Jon Plasse photographed familiar objects around his home. The resulting series, in turns subtle and startling, evokes the intensity, monotony and disorientation of life in isolation. Jon Plasse focuses his work on memorializing a special time, place or experience - often represented by personal loss, solitude, excitement or mystery.Chuck Kelton is a photographer who makes chemograms and photograms transforming light, chemistry and paper into abstract landscapes. He is also a master printer, for over 35 years handling the work of a wide variety of highly regarded photographers. View Details

A Long and Echoing Light: Notes from a Pandemic

Jon Plasse

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119086128 pages; 75 Color Photographs7.5 x 11 inches$45 USFeatured in: L’Oeil de la Photographie and Heromag.Shot on locations around the world, Captured by the Sea documents beach culture. Cantlin works as an invisible observer, quietly studying colors and textures, and patiently waiting for facial expressions and body language to evolve. It is the juxtaposition of these details, layered in the foreground, mid-ground, and background of her photographs that makes them transportive; encouraging curiosity provoking a creative narrative within the viewer. Captured by the Sea translates this culture and community by recording fleeting glimpses into how people experience the sea.Jessica Cantlin is an award winning fine art landscape photographer from Seattle. Cantlin travels the world with her cameras, curiosity, and love for wide open spaces. Blending texture, scale, and natural light with water, weather, and wildlife, Cantlin creates photographs that elegantly capture the intersection of humanity and the environment. Jennifer Ament is a multi-media artist working in printmaking, painting, and mural commissions. She creates surreal images based on the exploration of our perceived realities. The work evolves over time as she strives to voice the concerns of art that are relevant to society at large. View Details

Captured by the Sea

Jessica Cantlin

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119147136 pages; 76 Color Photographs8 x 10 inches$45 USFeatured in: Musee Magazine.Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude is a fine art photography book that highlights the experience of being alone in public. Scherl uses restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle nuances of her lone diners visually define their experience. This long-term project spanning three decades, culminated during the Covid-19 pandemic. "The cinema verite' approach accentuates the portraits so that the camera is used to unveil truths in a documentary style." -Laura PressleyNancy A. Scherl is a fine art portrait photographer based in New York City. Ih this series, she used cinematic lighting and staged her subjects asking them to act out how they feel or behave when they dine alone in public. Laura Wzorek Pressley is an experienced Cultural Producer powering multi-faceted events serving local, national, and international communities. As a Certified Executive Director of CENTER in Santa Fe, she directs one of the most effective outcome-driven programs in the world for photography and lens-based media, CENTER’s annual Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium. View Details

Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude

Nancy A. Scherl

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119093112 pages; 70 Black & White Photographs8.5 x 11 inches$45 USFeatured in: All About Photo and Art Daily.Photographer Ed Hotchkiss traveled to neighborhoods from the north Bronx to Rockaway; from the teeming center of Queens to the western edge of midtown. This unexpected odyssey resulted in a group of photographs that reveals the true humanity on the NYC subway. Ed Hotchkiss has traveled to six continents, over 100 countries and every U.S. state. He specializes in photographing street life, urban and nature landscapes, musical events and night scenes.Lawrence Weschler is an award winning writer with contributions to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, McSweeneys and The Believer. View Details

Station to Station: Exploring the New York City Subway

Edward Hotchkiss

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119123136 pages; 86 Color Photographs8 x 10 inches$45 USFeatured in Art Daily.The photographs of Ex Crucible show incarcerated men and women creating artworks with a talent, passion, and authenticity that illuminate the humanity of the artists. These intimate photographs demonstrate the importance that creativity can have in these bleak, controlled spaces.Peter Merts is a photographer residing in the San Francisco area. For decades he has focused on documenting the work of several arts-based non-profit (NGO) organizations. He is co-author of Paths of Discovery: Art Practice and Its Impact in California Prisons (2nd edition).Annie Buckley is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator working at the intersections of art and social justice. View Details

Ex Crucible: The Passion of Incarcerated Artists

Peter Merts

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119130120 pages; 60 Black & White Photographs8 x 10 inches$45 USBeach Lovers is a series of intimate moments shared by couples at the beaches of NYC. These moments hold intimate gestures of couples; some tender, rubbing sunscreen on a partner's back; others lustful, a deep kiss in the water. Being amongst the waves and sand emboldens couples to enjoy more affectionate freedom, their inhibitions less hidden than anywhere else observed in the city. Beach Lovers is about the public display of intimacy between couples from diverse backgrounds, a claiming of public space for private tenderness.Erica Reade is originally from Montreal Canada, and she has been living and working in NYC for over 15 years. Reade holds an MA in International Affairs from New School University, with a background in photography for social change. She became a freelance photographer in 2018. She spends as much time at the beach as possible, and her personal work is a reflection of that.Gulnara Samoilova is a fine art and street photographer based in New York City and the founder of @WomenStreetPhotographers Instagram feed and the traveling exhibition. Before moving to New York City in 1992, Samoilova was the only female fine art photographer in the Autonomous Republic of Bashkortostan, where she was born, in Ufa, the capital. She received national and international awards for her photographs from 9/11, including first prize in the most prestigious World Press Photo competition, The New York Press Club, and she was named Interphoto Photographer of the Year. View Details

Beach Lovers

Erica Reade