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We are thrilled to announce TRÁNSITO by Roberto Tondopó. Now available for pre-order. Rooted in personal history and collective tradition, TRÁNSITO weaves together the death of Tondopó’s father—named Tránsito and born in Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico—with the artist’s participation in the Fiesta Grande, a local celebration held in honor of Saint Sebastian. Central to this festival is the tradition of the Chuntá, in which men dress as women, embodying a celebratory ritual of gender performance. By becoming a Chuntá himself, Tondopó offers both a tribute to his father and reflection on mourning as metamorphosis.  Arraigado en la historia personal y la tradición colectiva, TRÁNSITO entrelaza la muerte del padre de Tondopó —de nombre Tránsito y nacido en Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, México—con la participación del artista en la Fiesta Grande, una celebración local en honor a San Sebastián. Central en este festival es la tradición de la Chuntá, en la que hombres se visten de mujer, encarnando un ritual festivo de performance de género. Al convertirse él mismo en Chuntá, Tondopó ofrece tanto un homenaje a su padre como una reflexión sobre el duelo como metamorfosis. TRÁNSITO is edited by Fernando Gallegos and includes an essay by Roberto Tondopó, edited by Duen Neka’hen Sacchi, in English and Spanish with translations by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa. The monograph is full color, 208 pages, Japenese fold. Cover with tipped in photograph, in three special variants. Designed by Studio Lin. Limited edition of 500. 

TRÁNSITO es editado por Fernando Gallegos e incluye un ensayo de Roberto Tondopó, editado por Duen Neka’hen Sacchi, en inglés y español con traducciones de Beatriz Llenín Figueroa. La monografía es a todo color, 208 páginas, plegado en japonés. Cubierta con fotografía insertada, en tres variantes. Diseño de Studio Lin. Edición limitada de 500. To read more about this latest monograph and to pre-order, visit link in bio! #capriciousbooks #robertotondopo 📚

a slight cast down at the edges of the lips by artist Katherine Hubbard. Pre-order available now - link in bio 🖤🔦

a slight cast down at the edges of the lips brings together work from the last decade of Katherine Hubbard’s prolific practice, which intertwines analogue photography, writing, and live performance. Reproductions of exhibited prints, a selection of new photographs, and images created from within her performances are gathered here, along with four of the artist’s original written works. This publication marks the first occasion for Hubbard’s photographs and writings-for performance to exist on the same scale, that of the book. To borrow from Roland Barthes, it is “[s]imply a text, that text which we write in our heads when we look up.”   -Corrine Fitzpatrick, co-editor Additional writings and conversations contributed by Zoe Leonard, Mónica de la Torre, Elisabeth Sherman, and Lynne Tillman. Edited by Corrine Fitzpatrick and Lara Mimosa Montes. Designed by Studio Lin. The book is accompanied by a poster with a full-scale detail reproduction of Katherine Hubbard's rip stop weave, printed on glossy tissue paper. Preview a slight cast down at the edges of the lips April 29th on the occasion of Katherine Hubbard's exhibition opening of 'The great room' at Company Gallery. Book launch and artist talk to follow at the ICP PhotoBook Fest, May 12-14, and available internationally in bookstores July 1st. Pre-order directly from capriciousfoundation.org now.

Announcing: Blue Sun, the debut monograph from Genesis Báez. Spanning a decade of photographic work, Blue Sun offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship and diaspora through studied images of the elemental and generational. Blue Sun includes essays by Hilda Lloréns and Elle Pérez, in English and Spanish with translations by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa. Designed by Studio Lin.  Pre-order now (link in bio!) with expected shipment date: December 2024. First 10 copies sold will be signed by author, Genesis Báez. Available in select shops Winter 2025. Raised in the Northeast US and Puerto Rico, Baez’s work is enmeshed in the geographies of both, while remaining in the currents between. Images spiral outward from the intersecting social and environmental conditions shaped by colonization in Puerto Rico, and subsequent mass migration, of which Báez is a descendent. Here, Báez oscillates in the reverberations of displacement and the continual act of place-making. Blue Sun beams with the sensory: sound, tactility, heat hitting cold. Photographs rustle with movement, drafts of one world moving through another. Báez’s practice is an invocation of the fragmentary — temporal and spatial — through which the camera and its mirrored eye reflect and translate a surfacing congruence.  From this fluxing space, Báez captures imprints of the absent and hidden in transitory moments of focus.  It is a diasporic practice, one that reaches across generational memory. Throughout Blue Sun photographs tether between granular abstraction and gestural scenes of care and protection, a layering of sensorial and psychic intricacies essayist Hilda Lloréns describes as a ‘matriarchal sensorium’.   Blue Sun is a culmination of Baez’s engagement with the permeable and mutable, the collapsing of worlds into fluid composites, a muted glint of the otherworldly, and a mirroring: of dislocation, of longing and the portals between.

Join us this weekend, May 8th—10th, for the annual ICP Photobook Fest! ( @icp ) 📚✨ Highlighted among our most recent photo books will be TRÁNSITO by Roberto Tondopó being shown for the very first time! Hope to see you all there commemorating our newest release and basking in the glow of so many beautiful photo books ✨💜✨ Fair Days/Hours: May 8th—10th Friday (12pm—7pm), Saturday (11am—7pm), and Sunday (12pm—5pm) ICP can be found at 84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002 - between Delancey Street and Broome Street on the lower east side.  For more information on ticketing visit icp.org ✨

Basking in the new warmth of Spring with picks from the first 10 issues Capricious Magazine 💐 Selection of photographs by Justine Kurland (Issue 1), Korner Union (Issue 6), Matthew Porter (Issue 6), Grant Worth (issue 5), Eric Jane Nelson (Issue 10), Estelle Hanania (Issue 6), Katja Mater (Issue 2), & Andrea Longacre White (issue 5)  #CapriciousPublishing #CapriciousMagazine

TRÁNSITO by Roberto Tondopó is available in three variant covers ✨ TRÁNSITO is edited by Fernando Gallegos and includes an essay by Roberto Tondopó, edited by Duen Neka’hen Sacchi, in English and Spanish with translations by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa. The monograph is full color, 208 pages, Japanese fold. Cover with tipped in photograph, in three variants. Designed by Studio Lin.  Limited edition of 500. 208 pages
7.5 x 10 inches Order your copy at capriciousfoundation.org or in bookshops internationally soon!

The Fiesta Grande of Chiapa de Corzo is a lively annual celebration with music, dance and religious ceremonies in honor of Saint Sebastian Martyr, the Lord of Esquipulas and Saint Anthony Abbot, but it has in Saint Sebastian a pillar of devotion and tradition, being the spiritual heart of Chiapa de Corzo. Central to these festivities is the tradition of the Chuntá, in which men dress as women, embodying a celebratory ritual of gender performance. Roberto Tondopó’s forthcoming book TRÁNSITO is rooted in both this collective tradition and personal history as he weaves together the death of Tondopó’s father—named Tránsito and born in Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico—with the artist’s participation in the Fiesta Grande. By becoming a Chuntá himself, Tondopó offers both a tribute to his father and reflection on mourning as metamorphosis.  Through lush allegorical imagery that blurs the line between documentary and fiction, TRÁNSITO becomes a crossing; a passage through composite identities and layered collective histories. Tondopó interprets the Chuntá tradition as a sacred embodiment—a fragmented figure that mirrors the pierced body of Saint Sebastian. In this act of ritualized transfiguration, the normative self is destabilized, making space for a subversive blurring of identity. Tondopó’s photographs invoke liminal states, conjuring decolonized forms of embodiment separate from western dichotomies and borders. TRÁNSITO is edited by Fernando Gallegos and includes an essay by Roberto Tondopó, edited by Duen Neka’hen Sacchi, in English and Spanish with translations by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa. The monograph is full color, 208 pages, Japanese fold. Cover with tipped in photograph, in three variants. Designed by Studio Lin. Limited edition of 500.  Secure your pre-order copy today (link in bio), books will ship March 2026. All festival documentation generously provided by @tondopo

See you at @printedmatterinc on Sat. 2/28 from 1-3pm! Join @martha_mydear and I as we discuss our recent monographs Small Death (@mack_publishing ) and Blue Sun (@capriciouspublishing ). @martha_mydear ‘s work and friendship mean the world to me and I can’t wait to delve into it all together. Hope to see you there!

We are so honored to have Blue Sun / Sol Azul by Genesis Báez shortlisted for this year’s Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook Awards, First Photobook category. Blue Sun / Sol Azul will be exhibited at the upcoming @parisphotofair as part of a traveling exhibition with @aperturefnd Join us this weekend 10/4 at 4pm at the @icp Photobook Fest for Genesis Báez’s talk: The Cloud in the Camera, delving into her practice and the making of this book. 🌀🦋🔵

Join us for the annual @icp Photobook Fest, October 2–5, 2025 !! 📚📸 We’ll have all our most recent photobook titles, as well as a few surprises from archive 🔍 And on 10/4 at 4pm join us for The Cloud in the Camera, a special talk by Genesis Báez ( @genesis__baez ) delving into her practice and subsequent monograph Blue Sun. Not to be missed 🌀🦋🔵 ICP can be found at 84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002 - between Delancey Street and Broome Street on the lower east side. For more information on ticketing visit icp.org

Join us as we return to the iconic New York Art Book Fair this weekend! Stop by Capricious Publishing (S-1) on the second floor for our latest releases including Blue Sun by Genesis Báez and the brand new, revised and final edition of Mucus in My Pineal Gland by Juliana Huxtable.   We’ll also have rare titles available from the archive including Barbara Hammer’s Truant and Sasha Phyars-Burgess’ Untitled, winner of the 2021 Paris Photo—Aperture PhotoBook Awards’ First PhotoBook Award. And stay tuned for our pre-order launch of Roberto Tondopó long-anticipated monograph, Tránsito later this weekend. More details to come! #nyabf25 #capriciousbooks 📚

Sometimes authors travel from across the country to talk at our R&D Store (@redevstoremassmoca ), and sometimes they come from right in our backyard! This Saturday, Genesis Báez and Christine Kelly, two artists from our local community, will be joining us for a book launch, signing, and reception during the upcoming @arrival.art Fair weekend. Genesis Báez’s (@genesis__baez ) monograph “Blue Sun” (@capriciouspublishing , 2025) spans a decade of photographic work made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. “Blue Sun” offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship through images of the elemental and generational. In “Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid” (@prroblem.press , 2025), Christine Kelly (@spiral.repair ) performs sleights of hand in which software instructions, punchlines, academic jargon, and everyday speech can try on one another’s costumes. Is this performance art or some sort of Ted Talk gone all wonky? Head to the link in our bio for more info, and to sign up to join us Saturday at this celebration of local art (free for MASS MoCA members)!