Instagram story viewer> @daylightbooks> Tagged

Daylight Books

@daylightbooks

6.5K

followers

1107

following

Since 2003, Daylight has published art and photography via our print and digital publishing programs.

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

“That’s not a pretty girl sport.”

During a stay at a hotel flooded by female athletes for one of my daughter’s volleyball tournaments, a young girl was overheard expressing her wishes to play basketball, yet her excitement and desire was immediately shut down by her own father because it was not a “pretty girl sport.” What’s even more mind-boggling than the statement itself, is that this father seemed to believe it was a useful compliment to his daughter, because being pretty–even at the expense of her true nature–would serve her more in life. Her brother agreed, and began suggesting other sports like track where she could show off her long legs.

Three years ago this fall I released my book Girlhood: Lost And Found with @daylightbooks , and clearly the conversation is far from over.

The book explores the experience females face growing up and growing old in a world full of preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman. The selection of photos included here travel back in time to dance between both mine and my daughter’s parallel girlhoods, grapple with the time in my life I spent working in the beauty industry in front of the camera, and reckon with the aging process and how to do it proudly and peacefully in a world that prefers our faces be frozen in emotionless complicity when in fact we need signs of humanity and feminine compassion, rage, and love expressed more freely than ever.

Can you pinpoint the moment you first learned that being pretty was a direct determination of your worth? Or that your own unique, natural beauty was not enough? Think about all you may have invested in the chase–all based on false truths spewed by fear mongers. Why should we accept their toxic messaging as true, and what else could we be doing with all that time, money, and energy?

What would you do if you didn’t have to do it pretty?

I am so grateful to @alyiarrusso and @covefinejewelry for inviting me to be part of this incredible photo shoot celebrating female entrepreneurs paving their own unique paths. Many thanks for photography by @hhaseltinephotography , styling @storyworthystyles ,and wardrobe @ginabespoke .

Happy 3rd birthday Girlhood: Lost and Found!

253

39

Congratulations to CCS Photo alum Sam Gulliver, who was announced as the 2026 Daylight Photo Awards Winner for his Senior Thesis portfolio “Not Really Now (Not Anymore). Congratulations Sam! 🎉🎉🎉

Repost @_sam_gulliver_ @daylightbooks:
Not Really Now (Not Anymore) is about the personal and cultural tensions I associate with the Midwest region of America, the place I call home. Rather than treating the region as empty or forgotten, I see it as a setting rich with stories that speak to a broader sense of unease in American life.

Inspired by Gothic imagery and themes, the work touches on ideas like hauntings, ruins, and historical trauma, as well as what theorist Mark Fisher called “the slow cancellation of the future”; the creeping sense that time has stalled, the future never arrived, leaving us to continuously relive the past. The Midwest, in this sense, becomes a fable for a larger cultural disorientation.

The project reflects on how the region handles its past: civil war reenactments that mix celebration with discomfort, Indigenous lands turned into tourist attractions, and hometowns of serial killers that have become part of local lore. These scenes explore how history is remembered, reshaped, and sometimes ignored.

At its heart, this project is also about reckoning with what it means to be from the Midwest, how the region’s history informs identity, and how its contradictions shape daily life. It’s a personal attempt to look closely at the myths I grew up with and the realities that exist alongside them.

The resulting images move between the surreal and the everyday, blending fact and fiction, past and present. The work carries an eerie tone, but it’s grounded in a genuine effort to understand a place that feels both familiar and strange.

Not Really Now (Not Anymore) is available as a digital portfolio through the Daylight Books website.”

@ccs_alumni_detroit

153

7

Beach

The whole summer in one frame: sand, a chair, 900 pages in.

Color keeps the pink and the warmth.

Black & white throws it all out and leaves just the page.

Which one? 👇

45

18

In the OUT NOW issue of 𝘈𝘙𝘛 𝘕𝘌𝘞𝘚 • A second edition of Derek Henderson’s popular book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 is forthcoming—completely reworked, revised and expanded—featuring previously unpublished photographs and new accompanying texts. The new publication, along with its accompanying exhibition, may prompt audiences to take a longer look at Henderson’s practice—uniquely positioned across Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and abroad, and spanning the often mutually exclusive realms of ‘art’ and ‘commercial’ photography.

“The camera has the ability to get everything in focus, unlike the human eye, which tends to focus in on what you are directly looking at. I like the idea that you can scan your eye across the surface of a large-format photograph and see everything in focus. It becomes almost like a cut-out set in a movie, where the background and foreground are so sharp it’s almost unbelievable.”

Interview: Emil McAvoy

Published by Compound Press (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa) and Daylight Books (New York), 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 will be released in mid-November alongside a solo exhibition at Melanie Roger Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

@derekhendersonphoto
@compound_press
@daylightbooks

Images (left to right): Derek Henderson, 𝘚𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥, 𝘖𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘢, 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝟨.𝟥𝟢𝘱𝘮, 𝟤𝟩𝘵𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝟤𝟢𝟢𝟦 • Derek Henderson, 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥, 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘹𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘩, 𝘖𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰, 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝟤𝟢𝟢𝟦 • Derek Henderson, Broadway, Mangaweka, Rangitikei, 4.24pm, 10th March, 𝟤𝟢𝟢𝟦 • Derek Henderson, 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝟨.𝟢𝟧𝘱𝘮, 𝟤𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝟤𝟢𝟢𝟦 • All courtesy the artist, Melanie Roger Gallery and Space Gallery.

3

33

Get a copy of Art News and read the editorial Emil McAvoy wrote about the 2 nd edition of my book The Terrible Boredom of Paradise.
I have lived longer out of Aotearoa now than I ever lived there. But I have never let go of being a New Zealander, I have a love hate relationship with New Zealand. The dread I would feel on a Sunday thinking about how I had to go back to school on Monday still haunts me as does the silence and solitude I feel there. But something always draws me back and when I am back I love the place and people dearly.
The book will be available in November and I’ll be having a show and book signing at Melanie Roger Gallery in Auckland on the 11 th November
@compound_press
@daylightbooks
@artnews_magazine
@emilmcavoy
@melanierogergallery
@beachfieldcopperglow

3k

92

In an age of instant photography, what happens when an artist takes her time?

This week on @flakphoto, @jillianguyette reflects on the quiet gravity of analog practice: the patience it demands, the accidents it invites, and the discipline it encourages. Through the tactile rituals of film, she explores how limitation can become a source of mystery, intimacy, and lasting visual power.

You can read Jillian's essay on FLAKPHOTO.NEWS — and at the link on @flakphoto. Please let us know what you think in the comments. Enjoy!

#flakphotodigest
#flakphotorecs
#flakphotobooks

3

6

One of the new photographs that will be in the 2 nd edition of The Terrible Boredom of Paradise. Show and book signing at Melanie Roger Gallery in Auckland November 2026
Clyde Street, State Highway 1, Invercargill, Southland, 6 49 pm, 22nd February, 2004
@compound_press
@daylightbooks
@melanierogergallery

274

10

Excerpts from my essay: How Analog Photography Brought Me Back to My Creative Practice, published on Andy Adam’s @flakphoto substack today   “In an age of instant photography, what happens when an artist takes her time? This week, Jillian Guyette reflects on the quiet gravity of analog practice: the patience it demands, the accidents it invites, and the discipline it encourages. Through the tactile rituals of film, she explores how limitation can become a source of mystery, intimacy, and lasting visual power.” -Andy Adams

3

5

Over the next few weeks, as we get closer to the fall release of our book Invisible Threads: Portraits and Stories of Our Global Neighbors and the opening of the exhibition at the Cahoon Museum, I’ll be sharing some of the people and stories that have shaped this project.
I wanted to begin with Eugene and his dog, Tulsa, photographed beneath one of Eugene’s favorite trees on Cape Cod: a century-old weeping beech.

Eugene grew up in Minsk, Belarus, when it was still part of the Soviet Union. Growing up gay, he learned early that being open about who he was wasn’t safe.
In 2010, an internet search unexpectedly led him to Provincetown. He had been looking into Cape May, New Jersey, but came across people online making homophobic jokes about Ptown. His reaction: “This is exactly where I need to go.”
Years later, after living in Moscow and watching conditions for LGBTQ+ people in the region worsen, Eugene returned to the U.S. and eventually made his way back to Cape Cod.
Today he works as an arborist in Provincetown, specializing in aesthetic pruning and revealing the natural form of trees. His connection to growing things goes back to childhood.
“When you plant a tree, it’s not just for privacy or shade,” he told me. “It’s because you want beauty. That’s what I’m trying to grow.”

Eugene + Tulsa
From Invisible Threads: Portraits and Stories of Our Global Neighbors
Photographs and stories by Julia Cumes
Lighting Direction and Visual Collaboration by Lipe Borges @lipeborges.photo
The Invisible Threads Part 2 exhibition opens October 3 at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, and the book will be released by Daylight Books this fall.
#InvisibleThreads #Provincetown #CapeCod #PortraitPhotography #VisualStorytelling @zhukau @daylightbooks @cahoonmuseum

3

20

A Peoplehood | Amiut Yehudit by @salskyphoto
, published by @daylightbooks , explores what it means to be Jewish today. Combining contemporary photographs with archival images, interviews, newspaper articles and social media fragments, the book looks at identity, belonging, community, memory and antisemitism without trying to reduce Jewish experience to a single definition.

In our interview, Marnie Salsky talks about why photography alone was not enough for the project, how personal testimony became part of the work, and how she built meaning through sequencing and relationships between different kinds of material. She also explains how October 7 changed the context of photographs she had made years earlier, even though the images themselves had not changed.

That last idea stayed with me: sometimes a photograph remains exactly the same while history completely changes how we read it.

Read the full article on aboutphotography.blog

Comment "Link" bellow and I will send you the whole article in the DM

25

2

🎉 It's a thrill and an honor to be included in this first round of talent, I couldn't be happier to be included.

My beloved series that started out as a happy accident, and 12 summers later is still going strong, like a slow burn gaining traction over the years. I selected a few favorites ranging from 2017-2025 and I'm aboslsuglrt delighted the jurors felt the same about them.

A huge congratulations to my fellow Top 200 finalists, a thank you to people at @photolucida and all the jurors and their time spent evaluating hundreds of submissions. Wish me luck for Top 50🤞

140

46

Derek Henderson is featured in the new issue of Art News Aotearoa, in an interview with Emil McAvoy discussing his seminal photobook ‘The Terrible Boredom of Paradise’ — soon to be republished by Compound Press / Daylight Books in a new, expanded edition.

To mark the publication’s return, Melanie Roger Gallery will exclusively host the publication launch in November, alongside an exhibition of works from the series.

DM us with your email address if you’d like to join us for the launch. Further details will be announced here soon.

The interview also delves into Derek’s wider photographic practice and is a must-read for anyone interested in his work. Pick up a copy of Art News now — and you can’t miss Derek: he’s even made the cover! (Portrait of Derek Henderson by Darryl Ward c. 1984)

#DerekHenderson #TheTerribleBoredomOfParadise #Photography #NewZealandPhotography

145

4