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After is about the life of the book in the digital age and the transitory nature of all things. It is structured into two sections. The first section features photos of ghostly afterimages left behind on the glassine sheets protecting plates in a 1929 art history catalog. The real world intrudes at the end of the first section when a thumb appears in the image. As the reader flips to the second side of the dos-a-dos, the imagery pivots to include afterimages of different kinds from the outside world. The text in the book is a blackout poem using a sequence of poems by 15th-century Japanese Zen monk Ikkyu as the source text. The original sequence - titled Skeletons - is an extended exploration of the same transitory theme as After.

"In the company of Black is a photography publication that will bring together images of Black people who represent everyday folks. For the past seven years, I have developed a body of work that focuses on portraits of extraordinarily, ordinary people, such as educators, artists, administrators, business owners, teachers, and students. When it comes to Black people, America is fascinated with extreme poles: either showing victims of violence, pain, and poverty (Black misery) or famous athletes and entertainers, and icons of popular culture (Black exceptionalism). This false dichotomy denies Black people the individuality and full spectrum of humanity that is so readily offered to the white population in this country. The photographs that I've been making ask the question: where are the people who make up the space in between? Here they are, they are important, they must be seen!" -- Publisher website.

12 photographs on cloth-covered boards; boards formed into double leaves. "Monuments is an extension of a site-specific installation by the artist of the same name, constructed in Minneapolis, MN. All pages are handmade by the artist under a photgraphic enlarger and include unique gelatin silver prints on glossy, resin-coated paper and gelatin silver prints toned to form solid metallic silver from fused, celloidal silver grains.... This book is limited to 3 copies signed by the artist, and 2 artist print copies."--Back cover. "The images consist in black-and-white compositions imprinted on silver gelatin foundations. The geometric shapes derive from elements of dismantled photographic equipment. For brief moments, these machine parts are exposed to light in the dark room. The resulting black shapes are marks of those areas masked by equipment, while the white fields are those met directly by light. Rather than capturing any external scene, the forms are carried only by the technologies and processes involved in the making of photography"--Photographer's website.

"Night moves is part of a series of zines created in collaboration with professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts working in fields outside of art"--Colophon.

Photobook inspired by the short-lived Zambia space program started by school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso in 1964.

"In White gaze, artist and filmmaker Michelle Dizon works with an archive of National Geographic magazines to explore the mechanics of the 'white gaze.' Through a process of poetic subtraction, Dizon works with only the language on the original page to write a decolonial counterpoint to a way of imaging the world centered on the West. Her images lay the white gaze bare, unearth a genealogy of a racist visuality, and work in the gap between image and text to write against the grain of imperialist narratives. Artist and writer Việt Lê uses Dizon's images from White gaze as a starting point for his poetic exploration of the legacies of war and imperialism. Lê's text performs a dual work, both contextualizing Dizon's images in the history of empire and unleashing a rhythmic play with language, both visually and aurally, to cut to the core of how meaning is produced. His text speaks to absence as much as presence with a story of war and empire told in fragments, phrases, words hanging on the page--an index of both the trauma and resistance experienced by those subjected to the violence of empire"--Bookmark insert.