True Journal #12
Redistribution
Featuring The Disease by Catherine Lacey, published for the first time.
@truephotojournal @catherinelacey_ @mack_publishing
From my intro text:
Distribution explores the tension between environments that overwhelm with density, and patterns that slowly emerge through repetition, accumulation and framing. I made the project rather conventionally. The archive of images I used to sequence and edit the book developed from desired themes, processes and locations. My process for photographing was a combination of seeking specifically, finding organically and sometimes fabricating scenarios entirely.
Working from this growing archive, Distribution sorts images and material based on thematic, subject and narrative cohesion. I also wanted there to be randomness and detours. Like a lot of people, I search for patterns in the world, not only to establish familiarity and relationships, but also to give structure to my frameworks and ideas about why things are the way they are (and, subsequently, how they came to be and how they might be).
During the book-printing process, when one makes adjustments to the image on the page, the printing machine needs to burn ink in order to gradually adjust the ink density and to reflect these changes. A lot of paper is required to do this, so the same sheets of paper are fed through the machines again and again in order to reduce waste. During this process, new image collages are generated by chance. These waste by-products—the overprints—are seductive, and many people save them, as did I. The pages that follow Catherine’s story consist mostly of scans of overprints. In the case of Distribution, this process results in a type of re-sorting of that initial pool of images, a way of mixing the images together again. Here, the re-sorted images are once again sorted and mixed with some new images l’ve been working with since I finished the book.
Mega thanks always to
@peter_hughes @luke_gaffney for keeping a great publication going
![Very excited to be in Tokyo this weekend do a talk and book launch at @skwat.site with @yukihitokono Talk will be in English and JapaneseDetails below:Tickets:We are pleased to host a talk by New York–based artist Daniel Shea at SKAC (SKWAT KAMEARI ART CENTRE), Tokyo.This event is presented in conjunction with the publication of his new book DISTRIBUTION, released in 2025 by MACK. Beginning with the motif of a forest, the work unfolds through the figure of an American woman and expands into larger collectives and urban environments, articulated through the sequence of the photobook.The conversation will be held with photographer Yukihito Kono, who also runs the space IACK, tracing the structure and development of the work.A book signing for DISTRIBUTION will follow the talk.
-—date: Sat 18 April 2026
time: talk 2-4pm / booksigning 4-5pm
venue: SKAC(SKWAT KAMEARI ART CENTRE)
3-26-4 Nishikameari Katsushika-ku Tokyo 125-0002 JAPAN [MAP]
Admission: Free / Reservation required for the talk
Japanese–English interpretation available
Speaker: Daniel Shea (Artist), Yukihito Kono (Founder of IACK, Photographer)
Organise: @twelvebooksdistribution
Support: @mack_publishing @skwat.site](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6739413853655067185234_0_7b0fbe24a8f66af8aa6d3729e9701e9d.jpg?o=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&h=98a3172a627c2a74e92c0eca019b3556)
