publishes elegant, idiosyncratic, and accessible books that combine words and images to celebrate contemporary photographic artists, and to explore the marginal, hidden, and parallel histories of photography.
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We Will Return to You
Hannah Altman
Hardcover / 11 x 8 inches / 144 Pages / $50
Drawing from a breadth of Yiddish literature and Jewish texts, We Will Return to You considers how storytelling is translated and transformed through photographs by evoking the enigmatic, ritualistic, and multi-layered world of folklore.
From mouth to ear to pen to performance, Jewish myths evolve across the diaspora, braiding themselves into both past and future, echoing their origins and never entirely replicating. These photographs mirror this mode of continuity. The images tell tales of looming tension, cyclical repetition, unsettled environments, and open-ended truths that are punctuated by ritual and iconography. With a distinct focus on sun-soaked gestures, objects, and anxieties, the photographs sprawl across the referential and the fictitious to form a visual language that stretches and shifts across lands, generations, and the stories that give it meaning.
The Saint Lucy Story
Saint Lucy Books was established in 2017 by artist and writer Mark Alice Durant. Our first book, Hidden Mother, by Laura Larson, was shortlisted for the Aperture / Paris Photo Best Photobook of the Year. Since then, we have released 14 critically-acclaimed titles. Saint Lucy works on one book at a time; we value collaboration and respect to produce elegant, idiosyncratic, and accessible books that combine words and images to celebrate contemporary photographic artists, and to explore the marginal, hidden, and parallel histories of photography.