Sherrie Nickol by Sherrie Nickol

Coming of age and the poetry of everyday life in stunning street photography and intimate portraits.

Photographer Sherrie Nickol captures relationships, environments, and everyday life, both intimate and public. Her inaugural book, self-titled Sherrie Nickol (Hirmer Publishers), takes us on a journey through time and place. This stunning new release organizes scenes of familiarity, domesticity, public spaces, and private life into five distinct sections. It will be available for purchase in August 2024 in the EU/UK and September 2024 in the United States.

Through portraiture and street photography, Nickol has developed a body of work demonstrating her knack for capturing beauty in everyday domesticity and urban life as part of a crowd, the essence of narrative in every photograph. Scenes have no definable era but evoke the mood of a bygone decade.

Sherrie Nickol takes us through five distinct sections, each separate but always in conversation with one another. In Between-Teen, Nickol spent time stealthily observing her son and his friends and the awkward metamorphosis of their teenage years. The result is a sometimes candid, raw portrait of youth captured with sincerity.

By the Water and Crowdscapes explores public privacy, individuals going about their daily life, some posing, some unaware of their picture being taken, oscillating between urban photography and portraiture. By the Water captures the carefree feeling of summer, as celebrated across the world. Photographs from this project span the seaside towns of Brittany in France to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, focusing on the intimacy of families, friends, and lovers breaking with their routines and swarming toward the water.

In Between-Teen © Sherrie Nickol

By the Water © Sherrie Nickol

Crowdscapes © Sherrie Nickol

The In the Moment photographs combine the candid with the personal as narrative events unfold throughout the imagery in this portrait of families and friends in public places. A girl cries as mud is washed from her clothing at a public tap, friends head to a prom-like event, and a toddler looks beyond the camera with speculation.

In Face to Face, the final section, Nickol documents the lives of women from an early age as they navigate the world around them. Mostly portraits, these images exhibit gentleness and a quietude that exhibit the elegance with which Nickol collaborates with and treats her subjects.

In the Moment © Sherrie Nickol

Sherrie Nickol
Sherrie Nickol is a New York–based photographer. She grew up in Osceola, Arkansas, and attended the University of Cincinnati and the International Center of Photography, where her studies centered on portraiture and reportage photography. Recent projects have focused on youth, people in public spaces, summer scenes, and dancers' portraits.

She has lived her adult life in New York City. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris and in numerous private collections in the United States. She has mounted one-person exhibitions at Temple University and The National Arts Club in New York City.
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Face to Face © Sherrie Nickol

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

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I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

By Pauline Vermare

Publisher : Aperture

2024 | 440 pages

I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in Japanese society. Editors Pauline Vermare and Lesley A. Martin, curator and writer Takeuchi Mariko, and photo-historians Carrie Cushman and Kelly Midori McCormick provide a critical historical and contemporary framework for understanding the work in three richly illustrated essays. Additional context is provided by an in-depth illustrated bibliography by Marc Feustel and Russet Lederman, and a selection of key critical writings from leading Japanese curators, critics, and historians such as Kasahara Michiko, Fuku Noriko, and others, many of which will be published in translation for the first time. While this book does not claim to be fully comprehensive or encyclopedic, its goal is to provide a solid foundation for a more thorough conversation about the contributions of Japanese women to photography—and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in a more robust history of Japanese photography.

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

All About Lisa McCord

João Pina: Tarrafal

By João Pina

Publisher : GOST Books

2024 | 284 pages

João Pina draws upon his family history to tell the story of the Portuguese concentration camp at Tarrafal, Cape Verde which operated between 1936 and 1974. The visual history of the camp is told through the only known photographs taken inside the Tarrafal camp, combined with correspondence, archives, objects and Pina’s own contemporary photographs. Collectively these materials create a new dialogue about the Portuguese fascist regime of the past—and the resistance to it—on the 50th anniversary of its demise. In 1949, Pina’s grandfather Guilherme da Costa Carvalho—a young communist militant— was sent to the camp. Later that year Guilherme’s parents were granted unprecedented permission to visit their son and using a Rolleiflex camera they photographed all the living prisoners and the graves of the ones who had died in the camp. This extensive visual record—the only one ever made inside the concentration camp—was created with the intent of reporting back to the families of the other prisoners held in the camp or had died there. Seventy years later, in 2019, Pina began investigating a box in his family archive containing the negatives, contact sheets, vintage prints of these pictures made inside the camp, along with related letters and telegrams sent from his grandfather.

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