THE DRAKE EQUATION - together with Paul Kranzler. A special edition book + print

Together with Paul Kranzler, I traveled to the small remote town of Green Bank, WV and spent several weeks with astrophysicists, bear hunters and electromagnetic hypersensitives to tell the story of this place called "The Quiet Zone". Our book, THE DRAKE EQUATION ,  published by Fountain Books Berlin , is available as a Special Edition with the choice of 4 prints.

34 years in the Grand Canyon, my new book - Cubic Feet/Sec.

Im excited to dust the blog off after several months to share my newest book Cubic Feet/Sec.  Documenting 34 years in the Grand Canyon.

CFS will be released in April in the Fotohof edition and as always in the past it will be available in pre-order with a special edition print.

Andrew Phelps, 2015

17x23 cm, 108 pages

soft-bound, gate fold covers

58 color images

ISBN 978-3-902993-12-0

Cubic Feet/Sec. documents 3 decades of traveling through the Grand Canyon by boat with my father. Trip after trip, thousands of Kodachrome images filled tray after tray as we carefully edited slideshows to show to our friends and family. Though I’m sure most people who saw our shows went away with a thrill, I could never help feeling that photography was never going to do what I wanted it to do. This failure, of course, is not photography’s, but mine and my lack of understanding what it can never do...

Only recently, when I took on the task of sorting through the thousands of images and seeing them as a whole - a complete journey and not fragments of past decades - did I see the memories and adventures flow into one story, one trip. Suddenly it made sense, this new edit where time is thrown out the window and the canyon is the only constant. This, finally, is the slideshow we could never make.

The special edition print is possibly the first photograph I ever made. It was made on our first trip in 1979. Trip 1, day 1, film 1.

Print edition of 100 with a book.

20x26 cm

Arch. pigment on Hahnemühle fine-art paper.

110,- Euro + shipping.

ALMOST SOLD OUT

to order one please send me an email.

studio(at)andrew-phelps.com

 

HABOOB at JoVanDeLoo in Munich

I have a show opening at the gallery JoVanDeLoo in Munich. Images from HIGLEY and HABOOB will be up until March 8th.

Here is a link to an article on Hippolyte Bayard.

The opening is on thursday, Feb. 6th at 6pm
Thereseinstrasse 18, Munich

from HABOOB, 2012

from HIGLEY, 2006

HABOOB
a violent and oppressive wind blowing in summer, bringing sand from the desert. from Arabic habüb “blowing furiously”. 

Andrew Phelps’ HIGLEY, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2007, documented the sudden material ‘progress’ of Higley, Arizona, a farming community transformed by the booming housing market of the American West. As Higley traded its farmlands for subdivisions, its community was seemingly on the verge of a new American Dream.

What HIGLEY helped to reveal, however, is that photography is often poor at showing the truth and even worse at predicting the future. With HABOOB, a new exposé of the financial meltdown and housing crash engulfing Higley after 2008, Andrew Phelps’ new work uncovers the facade, instability, and vulnerability of capitalism when it goes unchecked.

The East Valley is famous for destructive summer sandstorms called haboobs, which are caused by warm air cooling in the evening, dropping fast and forcing masses of hot sand into the air. As Higley’s vision of the new American Dream recedes, the haboob is a fitting metaphor, representing the fear and instability that have become so prevalent in the US urban middle class.
After betting its future on the promise of easy growth and sub-prime interest rates, this new HABOOB has trapped Higley in a social and economic no-man’s land. As the facade of a once utopian, homogenous vision fades, its identity is again being reformed, reshaped.

Southern Photographs 01

This is number 1 of hopefully many more publications and projects by the LAB guys and gals.
Last summer I got invited to the absolutely beautiful area of Italy near Polignano,  in cooperation with the Foundazione Maria Rossi Onlus.
The LAB group has started a series called "Southern Photography" as a platform to document the urban and suburban landscape of southern Italy.
I was lucky to be invited to run a 4 day workshop, which was actually in a cave, and the result is this simple yet beautifully edited publication from the participants. I feel a bit odd about having my name on the cover, the cover image is the only one from me, and the heart of the book is made up of the work of the really fun and talented people I got to hang out with for a weekend. Here are some spreads to just a few.

Thanks a million to Giuseppe Olivieri and Michele Cera for making it all happen.

Try and get a copy from Michele.

Alesandro Ciriollo               Cesare Fabbri

Nicola Baldazzi           Angelo Giovannetti

Vincenzo Schiraldi            Emanuele Clarizio

Alessandro Cirillo        Gabriele Rossi

Gabriele Rossi

The Vienna Photo Book Festival, June 8 and 9.

AnzenbergerGallery and OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie present the first festival dedicated to photobooks in Vienna.

The ViennaPhotoBookFestival takes place on the 8th and 9th of June 2013 in the venues of the two galleries on the premises of the Ankerbrotfabrik, an industrial bakery in Vienna. Over two event-filled days, visitors can enjoy lectures of renowned photobook experts, meet photobook artists, and shop, swap, and sell photobooks at an over 600 m² marketplace.

Lectures by Gerry Badger, Michaela Bosáková, Cristina de Middel, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Martin Parr, Andrew Phelps, Agnieszka Rayss, Christoph Schaden, Markus Schaden and Hannes Wanderer.

Photobookmarket with publishers, booksellers and antiquarians / Lectures / Panel discussions / Signatures / Artist showcases / Drinks & Food & Music / Free entry

Opening hours:
Saturday, 8th of June 2013: 10 to 20 h, followed by a party
Sunday, 9th of June 2013: 10 to 18 h

Venue:
Anzenberger Gallery
OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie
Absberggasse 27
A-1100 Vienna

HABOOB tonight at Robert Morat

My newest book HABOOB will be presented tonight at a show in the Robert Morat Gallery in Hamburg.

Please join us in the evening at 7 pm.
The show runs until January 12, 2013

ROBERT MORAT | GALERIE

Kleine Reichenstr. 1

20457 Hamburg

Germany

Hot dust as far as the eye can see...

photo: Nathalie Phelps

I'm in the middle of my last 3 week trip to finish my new book HABOOB, a look at the middle-class urban sprawl, post housing crash. There are still some Special Edition book/print versions available although I think they will sell out soon, thankfully as the sale goes towards the production.
Living in the alps for the last 20 years has made me forget what it is like to stand in a storm, in shorts, in 105 degree heat.
The camera shop will make a fortune off of my cleaning bill when I get home.

My new book and print edition...

The biggest reason why the BUFFET has been so quiet recently.

I'm excited to offer a pre-publication Print-Of-Choice edition of my upcoming book HABOOB. One could say it is the evil step-sister of HIGLEY from 2007. This will be my third book with Kehrer.

Since the housing-crash of 2008, I have continued photographing in the East Valley of Phoenix in the area around Higley, AZ, once the boom-town of the "American Dream" banking on unlimited growth and urban sprawl.

"The new frontier in the West is the ever-expanding urban fringe. HABOOB is a mesmerizing portrait of a small desert town caught in the crossfire between land speculators and beneficiaries of the growth machine. The result is a pictorial document of civilization and barbarism.”

 Andrew Ross. Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City

Called by their Arabic name, the East Valley is famous for destructive haboob sanstorms. As Higley's vision of the new american dream recedes, the haboob is a fitting metaphor, representing the fear and instability that have become so prevalent in the US urban middle class and its identity is once again being reformed, reshaped.

With "Haboob" photographer Andrew Phelps picks up again where his photo series "Higley" left off, which was published in 2007 by Kehrer Verlag. Higley, a small town in Arizona that was once devoted to agriculture, was gradually engulfed by the explosive growth of the neighboring metropolis of Phoenix, and ultimately disappeared from the map altogether in 2007. Rural structures dissolved, replaced by shopping malls and faceless developments of new detached houses; village roads became broad and showy boulevards.Returning just a few years later, however, the photographer came upon a completely different scene. The financial and real-estate crisis put an abrupt end to the building boom, and the idyllic suburban dream was shattered. The destructive sandstorms typical for Arizona’s desert landscape, known as haboobs, now sweep, a symbol of the fear and anxiety gripping today’s American middle class. Andrew Phelps takes a very personal look at the global plight, at what remains of the American dream when the capitalist facade caves in. (Kehrer)

The book:
Hardcover
31x25 cm
ca. 136 pages


The Special Edition:
1 signed and numbered book with 
Archival Pigment Print, 30x36 cm
of any image in the book (ca. 45)
Edition of 100.


112,- Euro + shipping.


To order, get more info here of just send me an email aphelps(at)gmx.net


Here are just a few images to tease, I will be in Arizona for the next month finalizing the project and the final book should offer enough for everyone to find a favorite!

"720-two times around" newspaper

The Easter Bunny has brought me a stack of newsprint catalogues of "720- two times around".

The original book from 2010 is sold-out but this is a collection of the images which will accompany a show at the Brunnhofer Gallery in Linz in October this year.

This is a long way from the original, in fact its quite trashy as newspapers can sometimes be, but somehow suites the project well. The images are all here as well as a great text from Sebastien Zanella from Desillusion Magazine.

I am selling the few that I have to put the funds towards the show.

720 - two times around

32 pages, newsprint.

5,- Euro + shipping

order here

A new home

Finally, after nearly 8 years, my friend Chris Fuchs (aka Fox) has built me a new website.

The BUFFET and my own work have found some harmony and the projects and books have some room to breath and hopefully multiply.

www.andrew-phelps.com

Back on line, a long summer of travel...

Well I have promised myself to get back to a big pile of books which has stacked up due to me being away all summer. My goal was to start on the day it started snowing, well I have decided I can't wait forever as it seems the snow in the Alps is still a long way off.

But, in the spirit of ski commerce, the snow-canons are out in full force and I am back in Salzburg and anxious to start building the blog back up again.

But, first things first, I am off to Munich for one more trip to put up my first show with the Gallery Jo Van De Loo in Munich. We are showing a selection of an ongoing series which I started last year to mark the year of my life in which I have now spent more of my life in Europe than in the states; who would have thought...

So, if you are in Munich Thursday night please stop by and say hello.

Point Sublime - at Lost and Found tonight in Amsterdam

12 original slides will be projected tonight at "Lost and Found", I can't make it, but maybe someone can send me an iphone snap?

Especially for L&F, the author of 'The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects' comes from London to Theatrum Anatomicum, bringing some of W. Reginald Bray's curious objects.
Also on show are slides of a great-uncle in Africa, news photography gone wrong, heavy metal in Cameroon, two young artist on their way to Nigeria for their Nollywood project, beeping with six, and a photographer driving his Ford F250 into Point Sublime, a remote overlook at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in the summer of 1984 to photograph a sunset.

UPDATE:

I don't know who made these, but thanks, and thanks to Julia from Lost and Found for

the invitation and the Skype interview.

Lost & Found
Friday 15 April 2011
Doors open 20.30, start programme 21.00
Theater Anatomicum, De Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam
cover charge 9
Be in Time! Limited seats available.

More information:
http://www.lost.nl
found@lost.nl
020 639 27 87

Point Sublime - the fun part

the cash and a nice stack of checks

me, my folks and the team at Ironwood and the American Cancer Society

My dad and Dr. Ono, my dad is the one cuffing the cash behind his back.

Last week was the fun part of the Point Sublime project. My dad and mom and I went to the Ironwood Cancer and Research Center in Mesa to hand over the first of several installments from the funds raised so far. Specifically the money will go to the American Cancer Society Cancer Resource Center at the Ironwood Center (Ironwood CRC) and the local American Cancer Society's "Road to Recovery" program.

Like my dad said, it felt nice to go to this place in a good mood, with something nice happening, instead of always associating it with something bad. We were met by Melissa and Jill and Dr. Ono and given a tour of the place and it was all in all a touching afternoon, highlighted with the counting of a stack of money, the first installment of 4,200 dollars from the first 70 editions.

There are still checks rolling in and I am still receiving orders weekly, so it is certainly not over. Since returning home, I have seen that the orders have rounded the 100 mark of the edition of 200.

I can't say thank you enough to everyone who has ordered a book and print.