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11/03/2026

Now Shipping! Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down by Stacy Kranitz

Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down traces the complex social history of Appalachia while questioning the role photography has played in shaping how the region and its people have been seen across generations.

The Appalachian region of the United States has historically been subjected to numerous political, religious and media interventions that have perpetuated a negative image. Through historical archives and contemporary images, Kranitz examines the evolving representation of Appalachia, from narratives of poverty and cultural deficiency to the lasting consequences of industrial extraction.

At the centre of the book is Pat Greene, whom Kranitz met in 2013 and whose life became a recurring thread through the work, connecting an intimate personal story to broader histories from the region, including the voices of Harry Caudill and JD Vance, two influential figures whose accounts of Appalachia have placed responsibility for the region’s deprivation on its own people, drawing on narratives of cultural and, at times, biological deficiency that echo a longer eugenicist history.

11/01/2026

Coirón by Pie Aerts

Coirón is a long-form documentary project, photographed over six years in the Chilean region of Magallanes, following aging gauchos known as puesteros, who live and work alone for months at a time across vast private ranches. Their lives, often silent, are shaped by distance, physical labour, and long periods of solitude, on land they do not own and with little security once their body begins to fail. This new body of photographic work follows their daily labour and stillness, offering a collective reflection on rural life in contemporary Chile, where meaning emerges through repetition, gesture, and the slow accumulation of time.

The wider region is undergoing rapid social, cultural, and economic change, and fewer young people feel the desire to pursue a life on the land, breaking a generational cycle of farm life. Caught in the middle, many puesteros move between embracing change and resisting it. Their interweaving stories form an intimate, complex portrait of a way of life on the brink of disappearing, and invites the viewer to pause within a world moving too quickly to keep up.

10/29/2026

Now available for pre-order! Unseen by Jungjin Lee

South Korean artist Jungjin Lee’s newest imprint, Unseen – Works in Iceland, features 56 landscape photographs taken in 2024. Lee’s distinctive technique, in which she creates prints on traditional mulberry paper, hand painted with emulsion, results in images at once delicate and stark. The sharp contrast between the dark landscapes and the melting snow renders some images nearly abstract, while other subjects – rocky peaks, cliffs, valleys and islands – show superb detail in their varied, charcoal tones.

10/29/2026

New in stock! Maria by Lee Friedlander

Known for his complex photographs of the American social landscape, Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has also photographed his wife, Maria, for many years, directing his relentlessly curious eye to a subject he approaches with tenderness, awe, and amusement. Lee Friedlander: Maria presents a seven-decade extended portrait of the artist’s wife, bringing together more than 70 images tracing the arc of their relationship, through marriage, parenthood, grandparenthood, and beyond.

On the surface, the pictures are a catalogue of the stuff of life: Maria reading, driving, talking on the phone, lying in the sun, reading another book. Sometimes Maria serves as a muse in the traditional sense, and nothing more happens beyond a man marveling at his wife. Many images reflect Friedlander’s sustained appreciation for his wife’s self-possessed style. But eventually, the portraits begin to take on the attributes of Friedlander’s idiosyncratic approach to image-making—shadows, objects, and reflections intrude, and certain images appear as fractured as cracked plates.

Collecting photographs made over the course of a rich and complicated partnership, the book reflects the particular triumphs and mysteries of life with an artist. In an interview with Jeffrey Fraenkel, Maria describes with equanimity the challenges of balancing family life with the pull of Friedlander’s talents, and what she made of his expansive body of work—of which she is a part. As she tells Jeffrey Fraenkel, “I didn’t like every picture and every body of work, but I thought he had something going.”

10/28/2026

Now shipping! Don’t Worry Boys by Stanley Stellar

A riotous, unflinching survey of one of New York’s most cherished gay underground photographers, Don’t Worry Boys finds Stanley Stellar at his most exuberant and layered, through an extensive reappraisal of his archives.

A Brooklyn native, Stellar picked up a camera in 1976 and pointed it, almost immediately, at his own community: the West Village, Christopher Street, the abandoned piers that served for a few short years as a sunbathing ground, a cruising ground, a stage. Here, Stellar developed a vernacular language that carries both a pornographer’s frankness and a documentarian’s patience; a regular contributor to the literary Christopher Street magazine, the gay newspaper New York Native and the panoply of q***r flesh magazines of the time, Stellar contains a high-low fluency that gives his work a grit and a candour most of his contemporaries never risked. Against the background of New York in its most unkempt and precarious, s*x is everywhere and unapologetic: men frolicking and screwing in full daylight, skimpy clothing leaving little to the imagination, balanced against a natural, authentic record of Stellar’s milieu through intense, unguarded portraiture.

10/27/2026

across the street from Heaven by Taylor Galloway

Just a few signed copies, with BPS exclusive signed 4x5 print, remaining! Available online now.

Both testimony and elegy, across the street from Heaven is a consideration on time, memory, and belonging, on what fades away and on what remains: home and family.

For ten years, Taylor Galloway returned to the farm his grandmother’s family has tended for five generations in Hartwood, Virginia. Together, his photographs form a chorus of faces and voices whose lives have unfolded upon this land, bearing witness to a way of life on the brink of disappearance, as small independent farms across America continue to give way to industrial agriculture and development.

With respectful devotion, Galloway’s photographs attend to the land, the people, and the quiet rhythms of time. They speak of changing seasons, aging bodies, familiar rooms steeped in memory, of the grace found in shared moments, and of a renewed optimism as the next generation takes up the torch.

In photographing this place and its people, Galloway also traces his own roots. What began as an attempt to preserve the place that shaped his grandmother gradually became the discovery of a living community where he, too, belonged. In the end, across the street from Heaven is less about preserving the past than about discovering what still has the power to anchor us, and the certainty of having found one’s way home.

10/26/2026

How About Never by Jerry Hsu

Signed copies in stock and shipping now!

Bringing together photographs Jerry Hsu has made in Los Angeles since 2011, How About Never is occupied with the almost sentient character of the city. Hsu’s photographs are sensitively attuned to the contradictions of the place, entangling allusions to hope and despair, beauty and pain in an atmospheric and uncanny sequence. Images of disfigured fences and physical injuries are interwoven with spontaneous compositions: a discarded toilet, a blood-stained mattress, crashed cars, a bank ominously aflame. Portraits seek an intimacy with their subjects among the disrepair and cruelty of the urban environment. These disparate and dissonant strands reach a beguiling harmony, together looking to destruction as a potential source of change and rebirth.

10/20/2026

Now shipping! Yo Te Amare Siempre by Andres Ríos

10/19/2026

Now shipping! Hitchhike by Henry Wessel

While attending Penn State University in the early 1960s, Henry Wessel spent his weekends hitchhiking west and back again. Each Friday afternoon, he packed a knapsack, took his camera, and waited for the next ride. By Monday morning he was back for classes, only to leave again the following weekend - a compelling habit for a kid from New Jersey who, until college, had never ventured west of Philadelphia. Somewhere along the way, the desire to explore the medium became inseparable from the search for what lay beyond the life he had known. Photography was no longer simply accompanying the journey; it had become the way he understood it. Wessel would later describe the experience simply: “It’s thrilling to be outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts.”

That openness defines Hitchhike. Intuitively working while driving or at the roadside, Wessel transformed the overlooked details of the American landscape into photographs of remarkable precision, economy, and wit, allowing chance encounters and fleeting alignments to shape a body of work that remains one of the most distinctive visions of the American road.

A long-anticipated publication spanning more than four decades of work, Hitchhike was edited and sequenced by Henry Wessel himself, making it one of the last books he completed before his death.

10/17/2026

When the Wind Blows North by Cole Barash

Arriving soon! Pre-order and receive a free print, courtesy of Cole.

Begun following the passing of his father, When the Wind Blows North originated as a personal act of retracing wilderness routes his father once traveled. Over the following five years, the project gradually expanded beyond its personal origins into an exploration of how photographs, landscapes, and family histories continue to shape one another across time.

Made across the American West and Northeast, the photographs consider landscape not simply as a setting, but as something lived within. The work moves between landscapes, intimate observations, and silver gelatin prints from his father’s archive, bringing photographs made decades apart into dialogue with one another. Rather than reconstructing the past, the sequence allows multiple generations of seeing to coexist within the same landscape.

Rather than following a linear narrative, When the Wind Blows North unfolds through recurring forms, shifts in scale, and visual echoes. Meaning emerges gradually through repetition, sequencing, and the relationships formed between images, inviting a slower way of looking while reflecting the ways memory shifts, accumulates, and is continually reinterpreted over time.

In keeping with Barash’s late father’s lifelong dedication to wilderness exploration, a portion of proceeds from the publication will benefit Big City Mountaineers, a nonprofit organization providing wilderness mentoring expeditions for young people from under-resourced communities.

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