Building SEVEN: It’s coming!

Next week I’m releasing my fine-art book, SEVEN, for pre-orders. Tuesday, March 26 is your chance to reserve your copy. On Wednesday we’ll be telling the world but it seems only right that you folks get your chance first. And if you reserve your copy within the first 7 days, you can save $15 on either edition.

I’ll spill the beans in detail on Tuesday but SEVEN will be released in two editions – a Limited Edition, limited to 900 of 1,000 copies, all hand signed and numbered, and a Special Limited Edition, limited to 100 of 1,000, and that one’s also hand-signed and numbered, but it comes wrapped in a gorgeous dustcover (that’s it at the top of the post), and includes SEVEN+, an expanded digital copy of the book, giving you 40 more pages and a means to view it your iPad or laptop while leaving the large book – 12″x12″, hard-bound, it weighs 4lbs – safely at home. It also includes a copy of Arctic Circles, an 8.5×11 print limited to 100 copies, hand-signed and numbered to match your edition.

SEVEN is 160 pages, and with the exception of a short essay at the front, it’s all photographs from the last seven years, including work that’s never been published, and a re-working of others, some of which is presented in gorgeous duo-tones. It represents some of the work I’m most proud of, and a vision of the world that’s hopeful and beautiful.

This has been such a fun project. Working with Hemlock here in Vancouver has been amazing and at each turn they’ve been encouraging and so helpful. They know books to a depth I do not, so leaning on them has been awesome. Yes, this book will cost more, but that’s the cost of not sending things offshore and not compromising on the things I most wanted for this book. This week it gets proofed. Then it goes to print and I aim to be there for that, to see how it all happens. Then it goes to the bindery. And at the end of May I will have 4,000lbs of books in my loft waiting to be signed and numbered, then boxed and shipped. It’s going to be a lot of work. God help the man who does this for any other reason but for the giddy joy of creating and sharing.

While we’re on the subject of sharing, congratulations to Edith Levy. We’ll be putting the Hokkaido portfolio in the mail to you just as soon as we get a mailing address. Check your email.  Thanks to everyone expressing such an interest. Might have to do this more often…