In late 2021, I published my first handmade artist’s book, Annals of the Former World: The Anthropocene Surveys (2013-2024). Completed as part of Book Artist-in-Residence program at Maine Media Workshops + College, the book features photographs from my project of the same name.
Annals of the Former World: The Anthropocene Surveys is my testimony to the wonder of the natural world as we found it before irrevocably changing it via climate change, and serves as my record of this world for my own daughter and future generations, an elegy for a world that will never be the same. With this book and project, I hope to increase awareness of what is at risk and to advocate for policies and actions on the part of governments as well as all citizens of the world to mitigate the threat as much as possible.
In this project, I have imagined a future history where photographers, inspired by the Great Surveys of the American West after the Civil War, conducted The Anthropocene Surveys to document what would soon be lost for the benefit of future generations. The handmade artist book is an imagined catalog for a museum exhibition entitled Annals of the Former World in the year 2124 that looks back to our current times and what we had and lost.
The entire content of the book, including layouts of each page from endpaper to endpaper, is available via the slideshow below.
Printed on Canson-Infinity Rag Photographique Duo 220 paper, drum leaf binding. 5 1/2”x7 1/2”.
First edition of 40 handmade books. $350. Sold Out.
