Reasons to Be is a fine art photobook exploring the intimate, complicated, and often contradictory experience of being alive. Through a collection of analog photographs made over several years, the book considers the body, identity, desire, intimacy, memory, and the quiet moments that make a life feel worth living.
Published in partnership with For the Birds Trapped in Airports as a limited edition of 300 hand-bound copies, Reasons to Be is an artist-made monograph designed to be held, lived with, and returned to. The photographs move between vulnerability and playfulness, tenderness and uncertainty, creating a visual record of an ongoing search for meaning and connection.
Each copy is fabric-bound with Smyth-sewn layflat binding and printed in the USA on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre paper.
Details
• 8 × 10 inches
• 119+ pages
• 92+ full-color photographs
• Fabric hardcover
• Smyth-sewn layflat binding
• Printed and bound in the USA
• Limited edition of 300
• Published July 11, 2026
Reasons to Be is a fine art photobook exploring the intimate, complicated, and often contradictory experience of being alive. Through a collection of analog photographs made over several years, the book considers the body, identity, desire, intimacy, memory, and the quiet moments that make a life feel worth living.
Published in partnership with For the Birds Trapped in Airports as a limited edition of 300 hand-bound copies, Reasons to Be is an artist-made monograph designed to be held, lived with, and returned to. The photographs move between vulnerability and playfulness, tenderness and uncertainty, creating a visual record of an ongoing search for meaning and connection.
Each copy is fabric-bound with Smyth-sewn layflat binding and printed in the USA on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre paper.
Details
• 8 × 10 inches
• 119+ pages
• 92+ full-color photographs
• Fabric hardcover
• Smyth-sewn layflat binding
• Printed and bound in the USA
• Limited edition of 300
• Published July 11, 2026
