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Silver Screen by Tama Hochbaum

Using her iPhone, Tama Hochbaum grabs TV screenshots of classic movies favored by her mother, who died in February of 2012. Silver Screen traces her mother’s legacy in a blend of visual technologies: celluloid transmitted via broadcast and rendered digitally, the TV screen, and the ubiquitous iPhone.

Tama Hochbaum is an artist/photographer living in Chapel Hill. Originally from New York, she received her BA from Brandeis University in Fine Arts and was awarded upon graduation a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study printmaking at Atelier 17 in Paris. She received her MFA in Painting from Queens College in NYC. She worked as a painter for 20 years before turning to photography.

@tamahochbaum

Silver Screen is available to purchase in print through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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Quiet Eccentricities: The Vernacular Seen by Lewis Koch

A reconsideration of Lewis Koch’s seminal photographic work on vernacular architecture, Quiet Eccentricities: The Vernacular Seen presents mostly unpublished work made for a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Survey project which took place in southern Wisconsin, in the early 1980s. In addition to a key selection of the original images, an essay by curator and art historian Lisa Stone examines Koch’s photographs of commonplace structures in relation to his early work which preceded the NEA project, and the later work which it in turn inspired.

Drawing upon aspects of photography, sculpture, assemblage and text, Lewis Koch calls attention to the often unremarked upon elements of everyday life. Over the past fifty years, he has presented installations in garages, on kiosks and billboards, as well as in museums and galleries, in solo exhibitions internationally. His work is held in permanent collections which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, and many more.

@kochlewis

Quiet Eccentricities is available to purchase in print through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. *Books ship in December by @daylightbooks

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Please join us for a lecture by photographer Vincent Cianni on his publication, Archive/Journal: 1985-1995/2001

A two-volume title that brings together two bodies of work. Volume 1, “Archive 1985-1995,” reproduces 80 black-and-white photographs of the NYC Pride marches during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Volume 2, “Journal: 1985-2001,” features personal narratives from Cianni’s journals and visual stories of lovers and friends who were living with or who died from AIDS, reflecting on his journey with HIV and his experience with activism surrounding HIV/AIDS from the same period as the Pride photographs.

Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer, educator, and activist who explores social justice through image, text, and audio. He was adjunct associate professor at the Parsons School of Design for thirty years and the founder and director of the Newburgh Community Photo Project, a grassroots community photo workshop in Newburgh, NY.

@cianniv
@marylandinstitutecollegeofart

Archive/Journal is available to purchase through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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Either Limits Or Contradictions by Nick Meyer

A photo book about the pace of life, death, and the passage of time. Told in three chapters, Either Limits or Contradictions captures feelings of self-discovery, enjoyment, and death. Nick Meyer takes the viewer on the ebb and flow that makes up life. His visual narratives examine and confront the anxiety and eventuality that, because we all were born, time will pass, and so will we. As if the camera is an extension of his hand, Meyer’s images are candid, honest, and universal.

Nick Meyer received his BFA from MassArt in 2005 and his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2008. He is the recipient of the Pace Gallery Award and the Barclay Simpson Prize. He is represented by Uprise Art in New York.

@nickmeyerstudio

Either Limits Or Contradictions is available to purchase in print through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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The 49 States by Matthew López-Jensen

“The second I saw Google Street View in early 2008, I sensed [it was going to impact] the future of experiencing landscape and that it was going to shift everything. I wanted to make a piece of work with this right away. I wanted to do something conceptual with it, not to use it as a camera, but to talk about it as something that was going to shift the way we look at landscape. That’s what got me interested. I also thought it was beautiful—the strange awful cyan colors of the sky…

In general, real politics is in the way we experience land. As more people migrate away from taking road trips and as we experience the world through the Internet more and more, there’ll be fewer people invested in protecting the land, so it’ll be easier for major companies to come in and mess things up. What I imagine I would see in the future is the environmental movement shrinking because fewer people are exploring by car or on foot. So all these iconic things about the American landscape, things that many people become interested in through traditional family travel, it’ll be harder to protect them from future developments or assault.“ —Matthew López-Jensen

Matthew López-Jensen is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary artist whose rigorous explorations of landscape combine walking, photography, mapping, and social practice. His projects investigate the relationships between people and local landscapes. López-Jensen teaches environmental art and photography at Parsons School of Design at The New School and at Fordham University. He is a Guggenheim Fellow in photography and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, among other institutions. He received his MFA from the University of Connecticut and BA from Rice University.

@mattlopezjensen

Surveying the Terrain was originally published by Daylight as a digital portfolio, read the full text and view the entire portfolio on the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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HER2 by Anna + Jordan Rathkopf

When Anna Rathkopf was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer at 37, she and her husband, Jordan, turned the lens on themselves to capture the realities of a young family dealing with cancer.

Through intimate photographs at home, in hospitals, and with their son, HER2 explores how illness affects relationships, parenting, marriage, work, and childhood. Their dual perspectives reveal both their shared bond and individual experiences of grief, joy, and survivorship.

Anna and Jordan Rathkopf are an award-winning multicultural photography and video duo whose work explores empathy, health, community, and identity. Inspired by their lived experiences, they focus on the perspectives of the diagnosed and caregivers.

@annarathkopf
@jordanrathkopf

In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re highlighting the Patient Caregiver Artist Coalition (PCAC), an organization rooted in Anna and Jordan’s experience that amplifies patient and caregiver voices through art and storytelling.

@pcac.ngo

Visit pcac.ngo to learn about HER2’s book and lecture series and explore cancer and caregiving support resources.

HER2 is available to purchase in print through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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A Retrospective by Phil Bergerson

A 25 year survey of Phil Bergerson’s photographic work. His photographs are poetic statements full of irony and pathos encapsulating this empathetic neighbor’s Canadian insight into the mysteries of our complex American nation. Using the traditions of Evans, Frank, and Lyons, Bergerson constructs found, poetic fragments into powerful sequential ensembles that metaphorically express something genuine and meaningful.
 Phil Bergerson has been showing his work internationally for fifty years, and his work can be found in many prestigious collections including the National Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, and the Creative Center for Photography Collections, Tucson.

Photographs by Phil Bergerson

A Retrospective is available to purchase in print through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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Julia Cumes and Lipe Borges will have work from their recent monograph Invisible Threads on view at the Cahoon Museum of American Art.

Invisible Threads: Portraits and Stories of Our Global Neighbors is an evolving, collaborative photography and storytelling project that explores the lives of members of Cape Cod’s global community. First exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2025, Invisible Threads continues at the Cahoon with a largely new body of work while building on the original exhibition, expanding the project through extended conversations and close collaboration with each community member.

Exhibition Sept. 23—Dec. 20, 2026
Opening Reception Oct. 3, 1-3pm.

Julia Cumes is a South African-born photographer based on Cape Cod whose work explores themes of identity, belonging, and human connection. A former photojournalist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and other publications. In 2024, she was named Artist of the Year by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.

@juliacumes
@lipeborges.photo
@cahoonmuseum

Invisible Threads was published as a book by Daylight, it is available to purchase in print through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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14 days ago

The Impact Project: Persistence of Memory by Stan Gaz

Traveling through remote deserts and Arctic tundra, Stan Gaz photographs meteorite impact sites as records of destruction, creation, and enduring memory. Inspired by childhood expeditions with his geologist father and the stories communities attach to these places, Gaz connects personal history with the marks left on the earth. His photographs explore the quiet aftermath of extraordinary violence, reflecting on mortality and our place in the universe.

Stan Gaz’s work explores loss, memory, and transformation through the shifting relationship between hunter and hunted, examining how each shapes the other.

@stangazhandmade

The Impact Project—Persistence of Memory was published in Daylight Magazine Issue 9. Explore the issue through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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Vincent Cianni’s photograph from “Archive/Journal: 1985-1995/2001” displayed at The Puffin Foundation Center for New York City Activism for their new exhibition

Opening September 25, the new Puffin Foundation Center for New York City Activism is a permanent space dedicated to the history and ongoing legacy of civic engagement and social movements in New York City.

The Puffin Center opens with a new exhibition: Raise Your Voice: New York Activism.

Archive/Journal: 1985-1995/2001 is two-volume title in a slipcase bringing together two related bodies of work: Volume 1, “Archive 1985-1995,” reproduces approximately 80 black-and-white photographs made of the NYC Pride marches during the height of the AIDS epidemic from 1985 to 1995. Volume 2: “Journal: 1985-2001” focuses on personal narratives culled from Cianni’s journals, and visual stories of lovers and friends who were living with or who died from AIDS, reflecting on his journey with HIV and his experience with activism surrounding HIV/AIDS from the same period as the Pride photographs.

Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer, educator, and activist who explores social justice through image, text, and audio. He was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Parsons School of Design for 30 years and the founder and director of the Newburgh Community Photo Project, a grassroots community photo workshop in Newburgh, NY. We Skate Hardcore was published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004, and a major survey was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Gays in the Military (GITM) was published by Daylight Books in May 2014 and was featured in the New York Times Sunday Review and The Katie Couric Show.

@cianniv
@museumofcityny

Archive/Journal is available to purchase through the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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Diana Cheren Nygren: 2026 Daylight Photo Awards Juror Highlight

“Diana Cheren Nygren’s photographs serve as family portraits that transcend time and space. They revive the histories her ancestors left behind to survive, as well as the past they attempted to erase to assimilate into America—and one cannot help but be deeply moved by the artist’s steadfast determination to act as a bridge and pass these narratives down to her children. Ultimately, her work creates a profound sense of presence, as though those ancestors are right there in the room with us, perhaps guiding our way. It is this powerful convergence of personal history, artistic intention, and spiritual connection that makes her photography so deeply transformative.”
—Hideko Kataoka, Newsweek Japan

Each year the Daylight Photo Awards invites leading industry professionals to review the work of contest entries. They are asked to rank all entries from which there emerges one winner of a $2500 cash prize and, also, highlight their personal favorite portfolio or ‘Juror Pick’.

For the 2026 Daylight Photo Awards, juror Hideko Kataoka selected Diana Cheren Nygren’s portfolio as her ‘Juror Pick’.

Hideko has been Director of Photography at Newsweek Japan since 2001. Hideko has also served as a lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at Tokyo Polytechnic University since 2013, and as a member of the External Review Committee at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum since 2016. She regularly participates in portfolio reviews and has served as a juror for prestigious international photography festivals and competitions, including the World Press Photo, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and many others. She is also the founder and director of Miiraii Creative.

@dianacherennygrenphotography
@decotky

Diana Cheren Nygren’s full portfolio is now published on the Daylight Books website, link in bio. by @daylightbooks

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16 days ago

I am honored to have my mural-sized photograph “Act Up for a Cure, NYC Pride March”, from my book “Archive/Journal: 1985 - 1995/2001” (@daylightbooks, 2026) installed at the entrance to the Puffin Foundation Center’s “Raise Your Voice: New York Activism”, its cornerstone exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York @museumofcityny , and the successor to MCNY’s long-running “Activist New York”

Opening September 25, the new Puffin Foundation Center for New York City Activism is a permanent space dedicated to the history and ongoing legacy of civic engagement and social movements in New York City. Please click link in bio for more info.

#activismthroughart #hivaidsawareness #PuffinFoundation

Photo by Brad Farwell taken in Museum of the City of New York by @daylightbooks

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