Rotting From Within — Abdulhamid Kircher. Published by Loose Joints.
A wound re-opened of melted suture threads. Who needs expensive therapy when the real therapy is making a photo book like this. It’s a book of escape, but also looking back at the destruction and narrowly missing being turned into a pillar of salt. A book of portraiture, archival documents, and diary; adding up to more than the sum of its parts.
Apropos of Andy Warhol; perhaps one day everyone will have a personal photo book; something to be buried with in the fold of their left arm, along with a guitar pick, or a cigarette, or prayer beads, clasped in the fingers of their right hand, for our collective redemption in paradise.
Jason Eskenazi is a photographer and author based in New York. He is the author of Wonderland: Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith and The Americans List, a book about Robert Frank. Jason is a Guggenheim Fellow (1999), a Fulbright Scholar, and the co-founder of Dog Food zine. He is also the co-founder and owner of Red Hook Editions.