Critical Collection is here!

My new monograph Critical Collection is now available! Signed copies can be ordered here.

Critical Collection is an assemblage of declassified archival photographs and other found images I have processed and re-contextualized. I obtains this source material primarily from the Central Intelligence Agency, National Archives, and National Reconnaissance Office. With photographic intelligence gathering at its core, this 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.

Published by Daylight Books
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781954119468
112 pages; 50 Photographs
9 x 10 inches

Foreword by Lily Brewer
Essay by Evan Hume

New book CRITICAL COLLECTION available for pre-order!

My second monograph published by Daylight Books, CRITICAL COLLECTION, is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter! The book can only be published this coming fall if we meet our funding goal! I’m fortunate to have the support of Daylight and a grant from ISU, but securing the total funding needed to publish a high-quality fine art book is difficult to secure. Pre-ordering Critical Collection will help ensure we meet our deadline for publication. Check out the book’s Kickstarter page for more info about the project and available rewards for contributing.

Digital mock-up of cover design for Critical Collection

Viewing Distance included in 'Back on the Shelf' at Filter Space

Filter Photo is pleased to announce, Back on the Shelf, a photo book exhibition, juried by artist and co-founder of SKYLARK Editions, Paul D’Amato.  

"The photo book has been inseparable from the evolution of photography itself.  Since the invention of the camera, books on photography have accompanied every technical, stylistic, and conceptual iteration of the medium. We can trace this from Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature in 1844, to the latest addition to Photo-Eye Books or, for that matter, to the books on display here at Filter Space. The book is both a celebration of photography’s reproducibility and a refutation of the preciousness of one of kind objects. And, just as photography is the most democratic of all art forms, the book is the perfect vehicle for making photography available to as many people as possible. 

We all own books and they’re all different. The way a book functions, including its binding and structure, can vary as widely as the kind of work contained within it. This show is a celebration of all that. Each book here, in its own way, has a conceptual integrity that is clear from the title to the binding, paper, image quality and text, to the final end-sheet. The result, on display in this exhibition, is a testament to how varied and alive the visual book still is in the face of all things digital and remote."

—Paul D'Amato

Exhibition Dates: February 3rd - March 31st, 2023
Gallery Reception: February 3rd, 6 – 9 PM
Location: Filter Space | 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207
Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday, 11 AM – 5 PM