Portfolio Books
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From the ongoing series, Somewhere Out There, Something Is Happening, a suite of handmade, limited edition portfolio books considers the contemporary American social landscape within the reaches of our inescapable past and to reflect upon whether what is past is a prologue of something happening now. Each portfolio book isolates moments and places of both historical and contemporary cultural significance, collapsing our understanding of time and history.
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Carbon landscape of natural gas and oil exploration in the Permian Basin of West Texas
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3 Volume Set | 24 photographs of oil pump jacks and fracking ponds
20 x 14 inches | covered with Shizen screen printed paper from India with vellum title page
8 archival inkjet pigment prints per portfolio book | 19 x 13 inches
2019
Edition: 3
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Whispers from the Apple Orchard
Manzanar War Relocation Camp for Japanese-American citizens during World War II in Inyo County, California
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20 x 14 inches | covered with Katazome-shi paper from Japan
6 archival inkjet pigment prints on Ilford Gold Fiber Silk | 19 x 13 inches
2018
Edition of 3
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Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
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20 x 14 inches | covered with Shizen screen printed paper from India
4 archival inkjet pigment prints on Ilford Gold Fiber Silk | 19 x 13 inches and verso
2018
Edition of 3
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And Then the Sky Turned an Angry Gray
Aftermath of an EF-5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri
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20 x 14 inches | covered with Shizen screen printed paper from India
6 archival inkjet pigment prints on Ilford Gold Fiber Silk | 19 x 13 inches and verso
2018
Edition of 3
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Books
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Estamos Buscando A navigates a personal exploration into the migrant experience along the U.S.–Mexico border region, with a series of intimate portraits, landscape photographs, illustrations, maps, advisories and personal narratives. The book has been designed to reference the migrant safety guides that are given to migrants by Grupos Beta and the Instituto Nacional de Migración of the Mexican government.which works for the protection and defense of human rights of migrants on Mexico’s northern and southern borders, through support actions such as search and rescue, humanitarian assistance, legal advice and guidance.
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Shortlisted and Runner-Up for the 2016 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award
New York Times – The Best Photo Books of 2016
Humble Arts Foundation – the 17 Best Socially Concerned Photobooks of 2016
Photographs, text and book design by Paul Turounet
Illustrations by Tim Schafer
100 pages, 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches
10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inch folded map
51 photographs + 8 illustrations
Spanish and English
ISBN 978-0-9888551-2-0 | 2016
First Edition: 125 (100 – Trade + 25 – Limited Edition)
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Inspired by a dream about seeking comfort and solitude in a moment of isolation, Bajo La Luna Verde is a self-published photo book reflecting on a personal narrative of being alone during a day and night in the Sonora Desert in Mexico in an attempt to cross the U.S. – Mexico border twelve miles west of the Port of Entry at Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico and Sasabe, Arizona, United States.
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Photographs, text and book design by Paul Turounet
Illustrations reproduced under license from the University of South Florida
24 pages, 7 x 5 inches
10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inch folded map
6 – 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 inch archival pigment prints tipped-in + 7 illustrations
Spanish and English
ISBN 978-0-9888551-1-3 | 2014
First Edition: 50 – including a limited edition 5 x 7 chromogenic photograph in a folder
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Tierra Brava is a self-published photo book that references the FM-3 Immigration Visa I was issued and required to carry during my travels in Mexico. Chromogenic prints are tipped-in along with various ephemeral materials, including a three-page letter and a loose, personal photograph as well as a map charting my journey through Mexico with the locations of the photographs in the book.
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Photographs, text and book design by Paul Turounet
72 pages, 7 x 5 inches
10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inch folded map
49 – 4 x 6 inch chromogenic prints tipped-in and 1 loose 4 x 6 inch chromogenic print
Spanish and English
ISBN 978-0-9888551-0-6 | 2013
First Edition: 50 – including a limited edition 5 x 7 chromogenic photograph in a folder
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