Annual Series No. 1 — Four Book Set

Living in the New Rome by Ari Marcopoulos

Marcopoulos continues his use of family as subject matter, this time focusing on his two sons as they grow and navigate a world of mystical colors, playing dress up in the woods or tending to a broken finger. Never afraid to take a visual risk, Marcopoulos is quick to mine his archive and include a photograph of Basquiat bathing and quickly juxtapose it with androgynous youth. When viewed alongside the book's title these images represent a future of endless strength and possibility, one the artist might hope for his own children.

Tiny Clustering Lights vs. Infinite Darkness Forever or How Many Humans Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb by Paul Schiek

A follow up to his first book, Good By Angels, this body of work builds on the already strange photographic language Schiek was using in his earlier work. Again dark and playful, Schiek experiments heavily with the book format and layout, even offering viewers two titles (one optimistic and one pessimistic, respectfully) from which to choose while viewing the book.

Tones of Dirt and Bone by Mike Brodie

Brodie's images string together like a film with no real beginning, middle or end. The viewer seems to have landed in the middle of a world that either never existed or always will. Comprised of some of Brodie's earliest Polaroid images, Tones of Dirt and Bone would later be published as an expanded trade edition book. This was the very first glimpse of those cherished early images