Recent Press: "Carry Me Ohio" by Matt Eich

October 28, 2016 jennifer

Beyond the boundaries of our San Diego venue, the work is the subject of major editorial attention, including from CNN, The New Yorker, PDN, and Photograph Magazine.

Excerpt from PDN

In muddy yards and dark bars, at kitchen tables and in trailers, Eich’s subjects smoke and talk, nap and drink, acting out a rich life with limited resources. An odd assortment of animals appear throughout—a zebra in a snowy backyard, ferrets at bath time, a troupe of all-white cats. Like his images of pristine woods and green grass, these connect Eich’s subjects to the cyles of the land. But nature and domestic life pause at the center of the book, in a full page spread showing the grey pit of a strip mine being worked by heavy machines. Writes Eich in the book, “Mining corporations stripped Appalachia of its resources from the 1820s to the 1960s. After taking all that they could, the corporations departed, leaving former boomtowns with little but their cultural identity.” His images record the results of that era, as residents “attempt to recover in the aftermath of extractive industry,” struggling through poverty to raise the next generation with the same strong, stubborn connection to this land. The book, he writes, “is my love song to Ohio.”

jdc Curates for The Center for Fine Art Photography

October 28, 2016 jennifer

Dreams connect the space between real and surreal. They derive from fragments of our stream of consciousness. Our life’s memories, our desires, and our fears reshuffle and play-back in visions that may appear obscured by double-vision, or be crystalized by a hyper-real clarity. Often, they exist with the support of an uncanny logic or disjointed symbolism. Whether hopeful or menacing, dreams pull on the strings of our most raw and primal emotions.

Paul Turounet on 2016 Paris Photo | Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Shortlist

October 4, 2016 jennifer

Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards have released the shortlist for the PhotoBooks of 2016; Paul Turounet's latest Artists Books Estamos Buscando A (We Are Looking For), made the list. This award for PhotoBooks was initiated in 2013 to celebrate the medium's contribution to the evolving history of the media.

Picturing Justice with work by Matt Eich at Atlanta Legal Aid Society

October 1, 2016 jennifer

Congratulations to Matt Eich who is included in Picturing Justice a photography exhibition presented by the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., curated by Mary Stanley & Louise Shaw held in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Learn more about this exhibition

Ian van Coller's The Last Glacier Acquired by the MET & More

September 30, 2016 jennifer

Congratulations to represented Artist Ian van Coller, who's artist books continue to gain critical attention; the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library have all recently acquired van Coller's The Last Glacier.

Now in Production at Sturm & Drang : Carry Me Ohio

September 13, 2016 jennifer

Carry Me Ohio (monograph) | Publisher: Sturm & Drang | Run: 600 copies — *Carry Me Ohio* (monograph) | Publisher: Sturm & Drang | Run: 600 copies

The first volume of The Invisible Yoke, Carry Me Ohio, by Matt Eich hit the presses of the Swiss publisher, Sturm & Drang this September (2016). Carry Me Ohio is the first of three small-run volumes the notable publisher and emerging photographer have committed to producing together. In the words of Sturm & Drang :

Matt's eight year investigation into family, poverty and the ravaged beauty of the Ohio hinterlands will be published . . . just in time for an election that talks much about the people left behind without offering much in terms of a strategy how to help them. Eich's honest look gives those people a face and tells the story from their vantage point.

Copies of the book will be available at jdc Fine Art, from Sturm & Drang, and with select fine booksellers beginning this October.