Palermo Publishing

Last day to join us at the ICP Photobook Fest. Today at the Palermo Publishing table: ✦ Allen Frame — Whereupon signing 12:30–1:30 PM ✦ Steve Turtell — Portraits and Places signing 1:30–2:30 PM

Today, Saturday May 9, Allen Frame and Steve Turtell will be present at the @rainbowbookfair from 12-6 PM at The Center, with a smaller selection of Palermo Publishing titles. As part of the fair’s program Steve Turtell will read an excerpt from Portraits and Places (Palermo Publishing, 2025) during the Poetry Marathon between 1 and 2 PM (timing may slightly change). Portraits and Places by Steve Turtell offers six intimate, personal views of a time in New York that now, fifty years later, seems as distant as the lost Continent of Atlantis. From the first Gay Pride March, to Frank Zappa’s thirtieth birthday party, to the fracture of a treasured friendship with the photographer Peter Hujar during a trip to Mardi Gras, these essays depict a life as varied as the scenes and characters encountered. The text is augmented with eleven Peter Hujar portraits of significant characters featured in the essays, including Charles Ludlam, Sheyla Baykal, and performers in the legendary Palm Casino Revue. Steve Turtell is a native New Yorker. His 2012 poetry collection Heroes and Householders drew praise from critic Marjorie Perloff for its “subtle and charming poems.” He was the director of public programs at the Museum of the City of New York, the South Street Seaport Museum, and the New-York Historical Society where he oversaw the public programming for 18 photography exhibitions. Peter Hujar, 1934-1987, now recognized as one of the great American photographers of the 20th century, is best known for his black and white portraits of leading figures in the downtown New York cultural scene in the 70s and 80s. 📷 Lay Ree Backstage, 1974 © 2025 The Peter Hujar Archive / ARS, New York

Today, Saturday May 9, Allen Frame and Steve Turtell will be present at the @rainbowbookfair from 12-6 PM at The Center, with a smaller selection of Palermo Publishing titles. As part of the fair’s program Steve Turtell will read an excerpt from Portraits and Places (Palermo Publishing, 2025) during the Poetry Marathon between 1 and 2 PM (timing may slightly change). 📷 Jody, Butch, Dana and Rob, NYC, 1977 from Whereupon by Allen Frame, Palermo Publishing, 2023 Whereupon was the first photography monograph released by Palermo Publishing, marking an ongoing collaboration with Allen Frame. The book presents a body of largely unpublished photographs made between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Whereupon brings together black-and-white and color images portraying artists, friends, and collaborators within apartments, lofts, and streets of downtown New York, alongside scenes from rehearsals from Turmoil in the Garden, co-adapted and co-directed by Frame in 1983–84 from David Wojnarowicz’s text Sounds in the Distance. Allen Frame is a photographer and writer based in New York. Since the 1970s he has been closely connected to the downtown New York artistic scene, working across photography, writing, and curating. His first monograph, Detour, was published in 2001, followed by Fever, @matte.editions in 2021 and Innamorato, @meteoroeditions in 2023. His work is represented by @gittermangallery . @allenframenyc @rdturtle

Join us starting tomorrow and throughout the weekend at the International Center of Photography Photo Book Fest in New York. Alongside Palermo Publishing titles — Whereupon by Allen Frame, Songs for the Birds and the Lonely by Dietmar Busse, Portraits and Places by Steve Turtell, ALBUM 900 by Lucia Pescador, and Viaggio in Sicilia di Lisetta Carmi realized in collaboration with the Museo Civico di Castelbuono — we will also host a special KIOSK section dedicated to a selection of titles from Cross Editions (US), Press Press (IT), Binderatlas (IT), and Untitled Publishing (CZ), among other independent publishers whose practices and visions we deeply admire. KIOSK continues to be conceived as a space of proximity and resonance between publishing practices — a temporary landscape of books and affinities. Jody, Butch, Dana and Rob, NYC, 1977, Allen Frame Australian Songbird, 2016, Dietmar Busse ALBUM 900, 2023, Lucia Pescador Catania, 1977, Lisetta Carmi, @museocivicocastelbuono Santa Maria del Fiore, 2023, Valerio Spada Pesanti Mezzi, Fontanesi, 2025, @press_press_milano Al Cerchio delle Tue Mani, Bibi Tomasi, 2025, @bilderatlas T-Club, 1980, Libuse Jarcovjakova, @untitled_publishing

Repost from @phonetics____ • open index is a curatorial platform by phonetics, presented at Castello di Rivoli in partnership with Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino 2026. It features a selection of leading independent Italian publishers working in visual culture and art. On view from May 19 to 29, the project unfolds across a reading room and a sound installation, exploring books and editorial formats as spaces for research, relation, and experimentation. @castellodirivoli @salonelibro

Connected Ecosystems. Museum and Post-Varietal Communities by Aterraterra has been reviewed in the CULTURE pages of Il Manifesto by Mariacarla Molè. Starting from the visual rhetoric of industrial agriculture—where ideas of purity, origin, and performance shape our perception of food—the piece traces how Aterraterra’s work unsettles these narratives. Their publication, Ecosistemi connessi. Museo e Comunità Post-Varietali (256 pages, Italian/English), published by Palermo Publishing, brings together photographs and critical texts emerging from research and curatorial practices. Conceived alongside the project curated by Maria Rosa Sossai at the Museo Civico di Castelbuono, the book reflects on the museum as an ecosystem and a site of cultural imagination. Within the project, the museum’s garden becomes the habitat of a community of cultivated and wild tomato varieties, placed in conditions to pollinate and hybridize through a специально designed wooden structure. Here, a “post-varietal” ecosystem takes shape—challenging control, standardization, and the myth of naturalness. The publication considers the museum as a living environment, where ecological, historical, and cultural processes intersect—opening space to rethink our relationship with food, biodiversity, and coexistence. With contributions by Laura Barreca • Maria Rosa Sossai • Aterraterra • Ginevra Ludovici • Alice Labor • Anastasia Lobanova • Federico Musciotto • Valentina Bruschi • Eliza Collin • Institute for Postnatural Studies • Felice Moramarco Book design: Carla Selva Matthes and Paul Zech in Shared Practice Translations: Dominic McElwee Project editor: Michela Palermo Supported by PAC2024 – Italian Ministry of Culture. 📷 from the series Post-varietal Communities, courtesy of Aterraterra 📷Aterraterra (Fabio Aranzulla and Luca Cinquemani) The book is available on the Palermo Publishing website and through a selection of independent bookshops: @easy_reader_libreria (Palermo), @leporello.books (Rome), @dispaccio.napoli (Napoli), @sowden.it (Milan), @printedmatterinc (New York,NY), @alienatedmajestybooks (Austin,TX)

We can’t wait to see you at the Jersey Art Book Fair! Join us for the 4th edition of the fair, taking place May 2–3, 2026. Palermo Publishing will be there on Sunday, May 3, with a selection of our publications. Repost from @manacontemporary • We are less than a week away from DENSE magazine’s fourth annual Jersey Art Book Fair, May 1–3, 2026, hosted at Mana Contemporary, with support from Monira Foundation and Jersey City’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Over 145 artists, designers, small presses and independent publishers will showcase books, zines, graphic novels, posters, chapbooks and other printed matter for sale across Mana’s galleries and courtyard. Exhibitor highlights include #blkgrlswurld ZINE, Bored Wolves, Calipso Press, Conveyor Studio, Dancing Foxes Press, Eureka! Press, GenderFail, Handsome Crow, Hi-Bred, It’s Freezing in LA!, Kelli Anderson, Looky Here, Makan Press, McSweeney’s, Mega Press, Neoglyphic Media, New Poetics Publishing, PM Press, Radical Characters, te editions, The Drawing Center, and Unemployed Magazine. The fair’s visual identity is created by JAB Fair veteran exhibitors Draw Down Books. Flip through for throw back photos from previous years. Link in bio @manacontemporary for tickets and more details on programming and events. Or contact @itsdense @itsdense @monirafoundation @manacontemporary @jcartandculture

Last day to see Blanche, a collective exhibition bringing together works by Bill Costa, Dana DeGiulio, Katherine Finkelstein, Allen Frame, Molly Getz, Leon Koury, Angus McBean, Mz Neon, Kembra Pfahler, and Laurie Weeks at MotherBox Gallery. Repost from @motherboxgallery • Allen Frame “Kevin in drag” Cambridge, MA 1974 Vintage silver gelatin print This is the last week to see Blanche! Schedule an appointment or come to our closing, this Saturday, April 18, 5 - 8PM

Steve Turtell, Allen Frame, Michela Palermo — Printed Matter, Inc. Very happy to gather around “Portraits and Places”, six personal essays by Turtell tracing the subtle, formative moments of coming of age in the downtown New York scene of the 1970s. Steve Turtell, a New York–based writer, has published poetry, reviews, and essays in journals and queer publications since the late 1970s. This first collection of prose draws on journals, drafts, and memories developed over decades. Allen Frame, photographer and writer, has been part of the downtown New York scene since the 1970s. His book Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023) brings together portraits of artists and friends from 1977–1992. “Portraits and Places” and “Whereupon”, along with other titles from our catalogue, are available at Printed Matter ❤️ in Chelsea. We’re extremely happy to contribute to this cosmos of publishing and shared research that Printed Matter represents for visual culture. @rdturtle @allenframenyc @michela_palermo @printedmatterinc

JOIN US TONIGHT at Printed Matter, Inc. 6–8 PM for the presentation of Portraits and Places by Steve Turtell with Allen Frame and publisher Michela Palermo Portraits and Places gathers six intimate, sharply observed essays that open onto a city which—fifty years later—feels as distant as a lost continent. From the first Gay Pride March to Frank Zappa’s thirtieth birthday, to the fracture of a friendship with Peter Hujar during a trip to Mardi Gras, Turtell traces a personal cartography of a decade shaped by transition, experimentation, and new forms of community. Steve Turtell is a New York–based writer whose work spans poetry, reviews, and essays published in journals and queer publications since the late 1970s. This is his first collection of prose. Allen Frame is a photographer and writer whose work has been exhibited internationally. Since the 1970s, he has been part of the downtown New York artistic scene. In 2023, Whereupon was published by Palermo Publishing. Michela Palermo is a book designer and publisher working between Italy and New York, and the founder of Palermo Publishing, an independent press dedicated to artist books and research-driven publications. @printedmatterinc @rdturtle @allenframenyc @michela_palermo

Sowden is launching the shop! Among design objects and very special publications, we’re very happy to be there—find our titles 🌴 Repost from @sowden.it • Milano Design Week 2026 RADICAL FRIENDS SOWDEN dedicated Exhibition Space and Shop. The shop is enriched with new collaborations and works by special guests: @humboldtbooks , @raawii.dk , @librairieyvonlambert , @martinogamper , @memphis_milano , @garroeditions , @mutinaceramics , @fabioquaranta_ , @fotokino , Industreal, @palermo_publishing , @zigzagzurich and @martine.bedin who will present works developed with Rubelli. The exhibition space will present three new lamps for the SOWDEN catalogue, one created by @micheledelucchi , another by @atelierpierrecharpin , and the third by @george_sowden . Join us for this special occasion! 20 - 26 April 10.00 am - 7.00 pm OPENING 19 April 5.00 pm - 9.00 pm Corso di Porta Nuova 44, Milano #mdw2026

Introducing the Curators in Residence joining us this April! Michela Palermo (@michela_palermo ) is a photographer, visual researcher, book designer, and publisher working between Italy and New York. She is the founder and director of Palermo Publishing (@palermo_publishing ) (est. 2022), an independent press operating at the intersection of photography, visual arts, and critical inquiry. The press focuses on artist books and research-driven publications, with attention to what she defines as the poetics of the margin — foregrounding practices that challenge dominant narratives. She graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna (2006), where her studies were rooted in critical theory and gender studies. Her approach is informed by feminist philosophy, particularly the concept of nomadic subjectivity, which understands identity and knowledge as situated and relational. In 2007, she attended the Creative Practice Program at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her editorial and curatorial work has been presented internationally. As a publisher, Michela Palermo has exhibited at events such as Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (2025); NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2025); ICP PhotoBook Fest, International Center of Photography, New York, USA (2024). She has organized various events, such as a publisher presentation and book signing, In the Cracks at the Margins with Allen Frame and Dietmar Busse, Printed Matter, New York, USA (2025). Her photographic work, We Were Beautiful Like the Winter and the Snow, is part of the exhibition No Place Like Home: Italian Photography Since 1980, Germany (2026). Photo by Midge Wattles @midge.w #ResidencyUnlimited #CuratorInResidence #RUresidency #ArtResidency