Dona Ann McAdams

Black Box: A Photographic Memoir

Publication date: December 2024

Photobooks
Black Box, a memoir by award-winning American photographer Dona Ann McAdams, combines fifty years of black and white photography with the photographer’s own short lyric texts she calls “ditties.” The book brings together McAdams’ striking historical images, taken between 1974 and 2024, with personal reflections that read like prose-poems. 

McAdams is famous for her uncanny ability to be at the right place at the right time to document resistance, protest, and empowered agency across five decades of American culture. She’s captured moments of her community’s history from the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990, to artist intellectual acquaintances like Angela Davis, Meredith Monk, and Maurice Sendak, and a host of others whose paths she crossed, including Harvey Milk, David Bowie, David Wojnarowicz, and John Malkovich.

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About Black Box:


Dona Ann McAdams
ISBN ‎979-8-218-48684-6
Hardcover, 252 Pages, 10 x 9 Inches
Afterword by Joanna Howard
Design by Guenet Abraham
Published by Saint Lucy Books

Dana Stirling

why am i sad

Publication date: November 2024

Photobooks
Why Am I Sad by Dana Stirling is a deeply personal collection of analog photographs that examines the complexities of sadness. Shot on a Mamiya RZ 67 camera with Ektar 100 film, the book combines Stirling’s striking visual storytelling with an intimate essay about her experience with depression.

Stirling, also the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Float Photo Magazine, brings a unique voice to the conversation about mental health.

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About the book:

Dana Stirling
ISBN ‎978-3-96900-159-2
Essay by Dana Stirling
Designed by Nicole Gehlen, Kehrer Design
Published by Kehrer Verlag
Swiss brochure with silk screen and embossed, 20 x 24 cm, 112 Pages

Mar Sáez

Terza Vita

Publication date: November 2024

Photobooks
This enchanting book delves into the rebirth of interpersonal relationships among adolescents after a two-year compulsory break. Mar Sáez photographs the reappearing residents, and, above all, the yearning young lovers, in sensual, almost dancing attitudes, reflecting the classical images of sculptures and paintings offered up by the eternal city of Rome.

Set against the backdrop of the beaches of Ostia, usually bustling with life and tourism, Sáez presents a visual narrative that juxtaposes the resilience of the city's history with the transient, vulnerable nature of adolescence.

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About the book:

Mar Sáez
ISBN ‎9789053309605
Text by Elena Medel
Design by underbau, Madrid
Published by Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Softcover, sewn and stitched, 12 x 18 cm, 96 Pages

Press:

Clavoardiendo magazine
L'Oeil de la Photographie

Elliot Ross

Crows Ascending

Publication date: November 2024

Photobooks
Crows Ascending captures the haunting beauty of crows in flight, as observed by Ross from the rooftops of his apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco during the pandemic years. This deeply contemplative series, presented in an exquisitely produced book, is a meditation on one of the world’s most intelligent bird species and reflects the quiet isolation and stillness of the moment.

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About the book:

Elliot Ross
ISBN ‎9789053309612
Design by Victor Levie, Levievandermeer, Amsterdam
Published by Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Hardcover with half cloth cover and illustrated spine, 23.5 x 26.7 cm, 48 Pages

Press:

The Phoblographer
Focus magazine
Dale Berning Sawa’s substack “Untitled, 1974 Magazine”, Nov 12 2024
Talking Animals radio show with Duncan Strauss, Dec 11 2024 (starts from 40:18)

Photography Fair

Unseen Amsterdam

Date: September 19-22, 2024

Book Markets
In 2024 I had a table at Unseen Amsterdam’s book market and presented a variety of photography books by publishers Daylight Books (USA), House of Oktober (The Netherlands), Saint Lucy Books (USA), Schilt Publishing & Gallery (The Netherlands) and self-published projects by Sergey Novikov (UK) and Seymour Licht (USA). 

Book signings included Katherine Oktober Matthews signing Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity, Mar Sáez presenting fresh-off-the-printers Terza Vita, Jamie Schofield Riva signing Girlhood: Lost and Found, and Ximena Echagüe signing Trapped. The artists traveled from New York, Brussels, Madrid, and Zaanstad. 

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Book signings at Unseen Amsterdam:
  1. Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity and Emotion Mixer by Katherine Oktober Matthews, House of Oktober
  2. Girlhood: Lost and Found by Jamie Schofield Riva, Daylight Books
  3. Terza Vita: Lido di Ostia Roma by Mar Sáez, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  4. Trapped by Ximena Echagüe, Daylight Books


List of all titles presented at Unseen Amsterdam (in alphabetical order):
  1. A Place of Our Own by Iris Hassid, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  2. A Poor Imitation of Death: Youth in the California Prison System by Ara Oshagan, Daylight Books
  3. Dammed: Birth to Death of the Colorado River by Debbie Bentley, Daylight Books
  4. Dreaming California: High End, Low End, No End in Sight by Susan Ressler, Daylight Books
  5. Embrace by Rohina Hoffman, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  6. Emotion Mixer by Katherine Oktober Matthews, House of Oktober
  7. Girlhood: Lost and Found by Jamie Schofield Riva, Daylight Books
  8. Halloween Underground: New York Subway Portraits by Seymour Licht, self-published
  9. Het oordeel: De zaak Christina Boyer by Jan Banning, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  10. I Burn But I Am Not Consumed by Alicia Bruce, Daylight Books
  11. Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph by Odette England, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  12. London Gentrified by Sergey Novikov, self-published
  13. Memento Morrie: Images of Love and Loss by Heather Pillar, Daylight Books
  14. Milk: Works by Artist-Mothers about Motherhood by Katherine Oktober Matthews, House of Oktober
  15. Personal Ties by Amy Touchette, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  16. Relative Strangers by Teri Vershel, Daylight Books
  17. Summer of the White Fox, and After by Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy Books
  18. Terza Vita: Lido di Ostia Roma by Mar Sáez, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  19. The Hands of My Friends by Regina DeLuise, Saint Lucy Books
  20. The Many Pleasures: Found Art in New York City by Barton Lewis, Daylight Books
  21. The Red Purse: A Story of Grief and Desire by Jacque Rupp, Daylight Books
  22. The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case by Jan Banning, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  23. These Americans by Will Vogt, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  24. To Hans by Vivian Keulards, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  25. Trapped by Ximena Echagüe, Daylight Books
  26. Two Way Street by Gretchen Grace, Daylight Books
  27. Undo Motherhood by Diana Karklin, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  28. Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity by Katherine Oktober Matthews, House of Oktober
  29. Voor Hans by Vivian Keulards, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
  30. Winter by Bruce Haley, Daylight Books
  31. You Refuse to Believe That You Ever Liked Pink by Dena Eber, Schilt Publishing & Gallery



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