Erinn Springer

Dormant Season 🤍🕊 Last week, I held my book for the first time. Last weekend, it was held by everyone in LA. I’ve held it every day since, and each time, it’s brought something new. Thank you to everyone who is a part of this, over the last three years of making the work, but also throughout the years prior. This work wouldn’t be what it is without all the characters who came through our front door or sparked curiosity with the way they moved about the world. I’m thinking about the people I’ve lost, the people I’ve found, the person I’ve become, and the many ways that this book has frozen some idea of these very people, and place, within its pages. Thank you to everyone who is a part of this. To @charcoalbookclub @charcoalpress @jesselenz for bringing this to life and to my angels @bradzellar @genitempo @bryanschutmaat @hazardpeters @thechrismccall @ethanaarojones @andreoffdre , for everything you did, above and beyond. We did it!

A very beautiful and generous review of Dormant Season by @caseycep in @newyorkermag . I’m very touched by these words. Thank you @caseycep , @staceypictures and @noelleflorestheard for believing in this work 🤍🕊

A visual conversation with my friend @agnieszka_photographs for @sixteen.world issue 14 dedicated to The Photographic Gesture. Agnieszka and I corresponded between Minnesota and Iceland for 8 weeks with single picture responses to create this series of nature and body. Thanks to Agnes for her inspiration and to @xavier.encinas and @victoiresimonney for the freedom to create for such a beautiful publication. ☁️

It’s Friday and time to try another “Pop-Up Interview.” Here’s the drill: I surprise a photographer whose work I love with three questions (see below). She has no idea this is coming. Fingers crossed, she’ll respond in the Comments. Let’s give it a go…. I’ve been a fan of Erinn Springer’s work (@springerinn ) for some years now because she makes pictures that I can FEEL. I have felt a sense of longing, a brooding tension, and most often, I guess, a sort of melancholic regret for time going by. Erinn’s smartly composed pictures not only capture a scene — they conjure a mood. In her (incredible!) 2023 book “Dormant Season,” that mood was a creeping sense of unease which got under my skin in the best possible way. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked at one of her pictures, felt the roots of a rising emotion, and caught myself wondering, “How the hell does she do that?” So, Erinn: You ready? 1. What makes you want to take a picture? What must be present for you to say, “Yes That’s it! Click!” 2. Your pictures consistently manage to capture and convey a mood, as if something is living in the very air between your lens and the subject. How do you do that? 3. The first few frames above are from a recent project. How do your ideas for long-term projects come to you? And how do you know when it’s an idea that has legs?? Follow Erinn’s outstanding work at @springerinn and take a look at her prints at @thehulettcollection #erinnspringer #womenphotographers @bluephoto.co #popupinterview

Uncle Tony and Aunt Luana sleeping under the eclipse, September 2024. 🐴 🌑

Dormant Season is back in Dunn County! Thank you to @stoutartdesign for hosting me at the Furlong Gallery. What a wonderful homecoming it was to share this work in the place where it was made and witness so many special people seeing themselves. 🖤🕊️

The SABLE, triptych is now available on Criterion @criterioncollection I created this 12 min, three screen, version of our three individuals films as an immersive installation. It premiered at @milwaukeeart in April 2025 and as of today, it is available online (for the first time!) on Criterion. These scans of my sketchbook are my notes from the first jam with Justin. We didn’t have any plans, just feelings. And, honestly, these scribbles got pretty close to the final product if you ask me… Skies are longgggggg Water, too What IF Driving nowhere Justin is ___. Love, Alone THREES 🌀 Aging Red carpet calling November August? Death (WOAH) Rebirth [ALMOST] YES! People! A guy? Someone. 🖤 @boniver 🖤

SABLE, (2025) • Now playing on the Criterion Channel Directed by Erinn Springer, this previously unreleased three-screen triptych film serves as a sublimely meditative visual accompaniment to Bon Iver’s acclaimed 2024 EP of the same name. Exploring themes of solitude, reflection, and the passage from personal turmoil to resolute hope, SABLE, weaves a journey of introspection and emotional evolution through minimalist black-and-white visuals and contemplative imagery, all set to some of the most soul-stirring music Bon Iver has yet created.

A week aboard the Wilfred Sykes, one of the last great steam-powered freighters on the Great Lakes. Traveling across Lake Michigan, Huron, and Erie is among the most inspiring experiences I’ve ever had. Thank you to the crew for welcoming me on board and into your lives. I’m so incredibly honored to witness your work and share this time with you. 🖤⚓️ Article by Jennifer Schuessler Edited by Erica Ackerberg @nytimes

Jane Goodall • April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025 🤍🕊️ I always wondered where I’d be when I heard the news of Jane. True to form, I was driving around rural Ontario, sleeping in my truck, photographing abandoned mines that had been overtaken by nature. Since I was a child, the confluence of Jane’s work and life was inspiring, and as an adult, affirming. We’re all meant to live with purpose. Purpose requires conviction, compromise, and creativity. Sitting across this room with her just one short year ago, just before her 90th birthday, hearing stories of Gombe, of her passion and the pathways she forged, will be a memory fossilized in my being–for life and thereafter. “When you die, there’s either nothing, in which case I’m finished, or there’s something… I happen to think that there’s something, from various experiences I’ve had. And if that’s so, then I can’t think of a greater adventure than finding out what’s there. What’s next?” Jane Goodall, photographed for @nytimes , April 2024.

One foot on the chainsaw, one finger on the shutter, riding around in this truck with Sally and her dogs felt like a return to a new home. Thanks to everyone for your love of these moments. And especially to @amandalwebster and @jolieruben for sending me where I need to be. @sallymannofficial @nytimes 🖤 🖤 🖤

Sally Mann at home, August 2025 🖤 🖤 🖤 Thank you for our days together, @sallymannofficial @amandalwebster @jolieruben @nytimes