Seattle-based Minor Matters was founded in 2013 by Michelle Dunn Marsh and Steve McIntyre, to publish contemporary artists through online collaboration with the general public. Their goal of producing well-made books by underrepresented voices via pre-sales has resulted in first books for ten authors, with more than half of their monographs featuring practitioners living in the west. Their PhotoForward installation will showcase a selection of original art by their authors; offset sheets and press proofs reflecting the choices of paper, inks, and printing needs for each project; and resultant publications.
Book Signings
During the Photo Forward Weekend, Minor Matters will be holding book signings with several of their authors.
Between, Everywhere: Rachel Demy (new)
DATE: SATURDAY 2/18 TIME: 1:00 PM
The photographs comprising Between, Everywhere were made over a five-year period touring with Death Cab for Cutie, a band Demy met first as a fan, and eventually joined as family. Demy’s wry and poignant photographs take viewers behind the scenes and on a journey full of the quiet, the beauty, the monotony and the exhilaration of a veteran band on tour.
Rachel Demy (b. 1982, San Diego, California; resides in Seattle) spent over a decade on tours working with St. Vincent, The Shins, The National, Neko Case, and other indie bands while honing her skills as a portrait and documentary photographer. She toured as a photographer with Death Cab for Cutie from 2015–2019. This is her first hardcover book. Eight-time GRAMMY-nominated rock band Death Cab for Cutie formed in Bellingham, WA in 1997. Over the course of their 25-year career, Death Cab for Cutie has played over 1,100 shows on five continents.
Crystal Clear: Western Waters: Sant Khalsa (new)
DATE: SATURDAY 2/18 TIME: 4:00 PM
The sixty gelatin-silver photographs of Khalsa's series "Western Waters," made between 2000 and 2002, depict water stores in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, and southern Nevada. The existence of these stores in the early part of the millennium played on human fears and desires—never-ending thirsts—that have become need in a very short period of time. Widely exhibited (including recently at the Riverside Art Museum), this is the first time the series has been published in its entirety. With a foreword by Ed Ruscha.
Sant Khalsa (b. Sheila Roth, January 3, 1953, New York, New York; currently resides in Joshua Tree, California) is an artist and activist who has lived in Southern California since 1975. Her mindful inquiry into the nature of place is at the root of her life and visual work. Over her esteemed career Khalsa has received fellowships, awards and grants from many significant institutions including the National Endowment for the Arts, California Humanities, California Arts Council and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
White Noise: Jesse Diamond (2019)
DATE: SUNDAY 2/19 TIME: 1:00 PM
Through the high-key light permeating much of his way of seeing, complemented in the extreme by his attention to gestures in the shadows of the night, Diamond fosters a brief connection between the world, himself, and the viewer through each carefully composed frame in his second book, White Noise. With an introduction by Ralph Gibson.
Jesse Diamond (b. 1970, Los Angeles; resides in Los Angeles) began his career doing editorial work for Sony Records. His first book, Drum Circle, was published as a One-Picture Book (Nazraeli Press, 2007). A primarily self-taught photographer, Diamond pursued music at CalArts, and has studied with significant photographers including Greg Gorman, Ralph Gibson, and Sam Abell.
Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography (2021-22)
DATE: SUNDAY 2/19 TIME: 3:00 PM
Seeing Being Seen is a text-based memoir highlighting a contemporary history of photography through the life and professional journey of Minor Matters' co-founder Michelle Dunn Marsh. Anecdotes of her evolution of seeing are punctuated with iconic photographs by some of American photography’s master practitioners.
Michelle Dunn Marsh (b. 1973, Seattle) is an American of Irish and Indo-Burmese descent. She has professionally engaged with the artform of photography through the creation of over one hundred publications, curation and placement of exhibitions, and development of numerous public programs over a nearly 30-year career. For the last decade she has focused her teaching on the introduction of visual literacy through photography.
Photographer Jeff Dunas (b. 1954, and resides in, Los Angeles) is best known for his portraits of musicians and entertainers. He is the author of multiple books, the director of the Palm Springs Photo Festival, and a Legacy Publisher of Minor Matters, committed to every book launched. His portrait of Honeyboy Edwards is featured in Seeing Being Seen.