Becoming Pictures - Shawn Dogimont

A travelogue that interlaces portraiture and text to reveal both a magazine’s journey and the author’s 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.

With a foreword by Norman Reedus.

• Published by Orenda Press, 

• 160 pgs, 23.4 × 17.3 cm, Hardcover, 2023