Shawn Dogimont’s wonderful new book interlaces portraiture and text to reveal both a magazine’s journey and his own personal history. Dogimont uses some of his photos to help jog him into writing an essay along with musings that can be read in no particular order but when taken in together, form a story. Something along the lines of no longer belonging to nor ever really escaping the nature and climate we grew up in. Often, the passages relate directly to the pictures facing them and encounters with dogs, bears, trees, friends, fashion models and actors the likes of Adam Driver, Jeff Bridges, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton and Isabelle Huppert are recounted in a concise, conversational style. At times though, the wandering prose and photos have little to do with one another. Not immediately at least.
Critics are raving.
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"A magnificent memory-collage which, much like the reality of our mind, is a non-linear patchwork of emotionally charged flashes of friends, parents, home, and a very special dog. Reading the texts that accompany the photographs is like having a rare conversation with an old friend, reaching beyond reminiscence to shared time, shared love. Shawn documents his (extraordinary) life with quiet simplicity, like snow falling in his native British Columbia."
— Josh Hickey, The Hydra Book Club
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"Oh my god, I'm so embarrassed that I never wrote to thank you. I did receive the book which is beautiful and sits on my coffee table where I see it everyday. I love picking it up and being transported into your lovely world."
— James Laxton
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"Shawn's photographs are honest. They never feel staged or what might be staged... Something free and un-produced or for profit. Warm like a favorite song or a campfire."
— Norman Reedus
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"Je viens de terminer ton livre. Ça fait du bien et c'est trop beau. On a envie que ça continue!"
— Quentin De Briey
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"A gorgeous, soulful book that invites pouring over. Very refined and impressive."
— Jack Pierson
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"Des photos pour toujours. La liberté, le désir—en dilettante on dirait, faciles, intimes—encore s'il te plaît.
— Alex Thumerelle, OFR bookshop
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"Intimate and ironic, just like its author."
— Malgosia Bela
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"Brother seriously a special book. The voice is crystalline. Hope you’re proud."
— Thaddeus O’Neil