2022 Book and Zine
Its our annual book and zine list! We went out, took submissions and gathered some heavy hitter books that really shined this year plus some regional zines that caught our attention. Check them out below! In no particular order but all with a Texas connection. Take a look at the books, follow the photographers and get your hands on any you like. All descriptions have been taken by the submissions or publishers. Cheers to the roller coaster every year brings us!
Tierra Del Sol
Carlos Jaramillo
Pomegranate Press
Carlos Jaramillo’s Tierra del Sol is a selection of photos from October 2021 documenting “El Clasico de las Americas,” an annual weeklong charreado at the Pico Rivera Sports Arena, considered the biggest event of its size. Jaramillo’s images depict contemporary charros and escaramuzas as they compete and socialize with one another in various suertes that collectively encompass a single sport—a sport uniquely designated as the official national sport of Mexico.
Documents & Dwellings
Keliy Anderson-Staley
Self-Published
Anderson-Staley’s work is characterized by her interest in family, memories, and loss. She grew up in an off-the-grid cabin in Maine, only learning later in life that her family’s bohemian lifestyle was purposely chosen by her father. At 12, she learned her father was not her biological father, resulting in a reevaluation of her life and memories that have lasted into present day. In 2018, her family’s cabin was sold and burned to the ground, a traumatic experience that she re-experienced again with the flooding of her house during Hurricane Harvey.
I Love You, I Miss You, Take Care
Joseph Bui
Self-Published
I Love You. I Miss You. Have A Good Day. is titled after the short phrase I would say to my mother before she left for work — words that have now become something of a prayer for me. This series of photographs examines a rich and gentle narrative of family kinship, the inevitability of aging, and the will to move forward.
Monolouges: a story of salt pillars
Simon Silva
Self-Published
monologues: a story of salt pillars is the debut book of photographer Simon Silva; the book is a collaboration with poet Terrance Carroll. The book handles themes of existentialism, regret and trauma.
Doomsday Wrestling
Skyler Payne
Self-Published
Doomsday Wrestling includes portraits, action shots, early versions of posters, and more from 2017 to today made by photographer, Skyler Payne.
Carnival Season
Caroline Philippone
Self-Published
Carnival Season is a limited edition 20 page zine featuring images of small carnivals, fairs and parish picnics that were captured on a medium format Bronica GS-1. The color images were shot on Kodak Transparency Film and the black and white were shot on Ultrafine Xtreme film.
True Love Still Exists
Melissa Laree Cunningham
Out of Place Books
True Love Still Exists by Melissa Laree Cunningham is a series of images made in Dallas, Texas in a sensitive, personal and diaristic visual language. Melissa Laree Cunningham follows the ebb and flow of everyday life, combining the intensely personal with the overlooked and unremarkable details of the world around her.
Lonely Places
Dani Newman
Self Published
Quiet moments get filled in with illustrations with a graphic design eye.
Amapolasong
Jacinto Jesús Cardona
Plancha Press
Plancha Press is an inprint of Infrarealista Review. We are committed to highlighting the poetry of Texan writers. Jacinto Jesus Cardona was born in Palacios, Texas, and grew up in Alice the Hub of South Texas. He lives with his family in San Antonio, Texas, and currently teaches English and creative writing at Incarnate Word High School.
Concrete
Joshua Duttwieler
Self-Published
These massive concrete structures, mostly built in the 1980’s during Corpus Christi’s last period of significant economic growth are now left towering over an empty urban landscape. The plaques paint intimate tales of near victory in comparison to these large structures, yet both are reminders of the city’s anticipation of success left in a standstill. This has become a cycle that has plagued this Gulf Coast city since its inception. Despite the failures, the people of Corpus Christi remain resolute, this is their home and they are in this place, Concrete.
Los Santos, 1992
Jeremy Perez
Self-Published
This zine is a virtual practice on street photography that I did during lockdown 2020. Using the film camera simulation Perez would run around Los Santos shooting whatever sparked his interest.
Boca Grande
Erin Krall
Palomino Journal
From a 13-year archive of images spanning five countries and 13 cities in the American tropics, Erin Krall’s vivid, gritty street photography is imagined in Joan Didion’s world of fiction. Formed around the two novels the writer set in the region, Live From Boca Grande conveys the ominous tension, uncertainty and darkness that both women experienced in the latitudes. Street scenes that transcend decade and national border make for a visual record of the fleeting, minute urban details that characterize both Krall’s imagery and Didion’s reportage.
Pasaporte Medellin
Enrique Gutierrez
Self-Published
Photographs from various trips to Medellin, Colombia. Hand-made and bound photobook editioned at 8.
MiniMX/colores/01
Alex Barber
Self-Published
A mini pocket zine with 35mm film photographs by Alex Barber.
The Invisible Archive: Francis & Anthony Almendarez (Navigating the Archives Within)
Virginia Arce
The Invisible Archive
The essay in Vol. 6 probes at the tension of misrecognition and recognition by mainstream American popular (Americana) media from the perspective of Latinx immigrant experiences. It locates this tension within a set of autobiographical readings that oscillate between resistance and assimilation, from adult children of immigrants from Mexico and Honduras. This unique social position is occupied by both the author of the essay as well as the Almendárez brothers’, the creators of Navigating the Archives Within.
Find and follow everybody on the list:
Brian Finke, Colby C. Deal, Ben Sklar, Donnie Williams, Flat Files, Carlos Jaramillo, Sarah Wilson, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Joseph Bui, Simon Silva, Skyler Payne, Caroline Phillippone, Melissa Laree-Cunningham, Dani Newman, Jason Reed, Jacinto Jesús Cardona, Joshua Duttwieler, Carlos Donjuan, Jeremy Perez, Erin Krall, Enrique Gutierrez, Stephen Longoria, Alex Barber, Liz Potter, Francis & Anthony Almendarez, Invisible Archive