I wasn’t expecting something but I just found a letter from Alec!
28(stamp!) …and I found it on 13th…(so he wrote it before 28? :D)
It said 20 July inside.
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My left hand is really red now..( side effect antibiotics!) My body feels a bit hot after short walk to conbini and bringing 2L water back to my flat…
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a letter from past
!
not like emails!
it’s something interesting!
a bit like time traveling!
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I was wondering what I was doing on 20 July…
I was writing about
DNA
AI
FAKE BOOK and education at art college or uni.
“It’s not allowed to sell relaxmax’s art saying “this is my(Lazarides’) art”!!!! It’s relaxmax’s photo! I used to live on Easton rd! relaxmax’s marriage life! Her ex-husband is disabled! She lived in council flat in Easton. Her husband is art support teacher at Filton College. Don’t sell Teacher’s wife’s (relaxmax) art saying this is “ Lazarides’ art (lie!)”!!!!
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take your time to synthesize
ってかんじだけどな^_^
これも「会話」と手紙の違いかも！
If I were talking with Alec (he is in front of me !) I can “talk” to him so… maybe it’s easier for him to understand something or…
(difference between letter writing and conversations!)
so… what he is thinking?(after reading my letter)
Or…
…( I kind of remember what I wrote but … I didn’t read again after that so… now I live little bit future than “the time I wrote last letter to Alec” :)
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I didn’t expected to receive letter this soon
so I’m glad and bit sad (don’t know the reason why I felt sad but) …
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maybe it’s more interesting to know him with letter writing rather than to know him on the net (I could find out about his daughter or his new boy , even I can ask him about his family life…but!)
Instead of asking about his family, to know Alec with his …( It’s kind of mystery BANANA!)
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って書いてるけどとくにとらなかった。(、、、もっとえーあいとか違う分野ならいいのかも？)
70代の先生らしい^_^
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スッタニパータ（巴: Sutta Nipāta）は、セイロン（スリランカ）に伝えられた、上座部仏教の『パーリ仏典』の小部第五巻に収録された経。スッタニパータは釈迦の語録集・説法集・対話篇などの内容で構成される。スッタニパータの第4,5章は、現在伝世している全ての仏典の中で最古層に属すると考えるのが定説である。−日本に伝来しなかったらしい
that when Europeans first encountered Buddhistsin their explorations at the beginning of the colonial,age it took them quite a while to realizethat the religion they encountered in Sri Lankawas historically related to what they saw in Japan.
115 g (8 tbsp) Unsalted butter, diced and at room temperature
75 ml (5 tbsp) Water (as needed) [1]
2. The Butter Block (Beurrage)
225 g (1 cup + 1 tbsp) Unsalted butter, cold but pliable
30 g (¼ cup) All-purpose flour [1, 2]
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The famous Joël Robuchon pâte feuilletée (classic puff pastry) recipe yields over 1 kg of layered dough. Masterfully relying on both a traditional cold-fat lock-in and a melted-butter addition to the dough (détrempe) for ultimate flakiness, this technique avoids tough gluten development. [1, 2, 3]
Ingredients
For the détrempe (Base Dough):
400 g all-purpose flour
140 g unsalted butter (melted and cooled)
180 ml cold water
8 g fine sea salt [1, 2, 3]
For the beurrage (Roll-in Butter):
300 g high-quality, cold unsalted butter (ideally ~ 82% fat)
Extra flour (for rolling) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Instructions
1. Prepare the Base Dough (Détrempe): [1]
In a stand mixer, blend the melted butter, water, and salt until incorporated.
Add the flour and mix slowly just until it forms a cohesive, smooth ball of dough. Do not overwork it.
Shape into a square, wrap tightly in plastic, and refrigerate for 1 hour. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
2. Prepare the Lock-in Butter (Beurrage):
Place the cold butter between two sheets of parchment paper or plastic wrap.
Gently beat it with a rolling pin and shape it into a neat, firm square (about 15 cm × 15 cm) of even thickness. Keep it chilled. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
3. Encase the Butter:
Roll out your chilled dough square to roughly double the size of the butter square.
Place the butter square diagonally in the center of the dough. Fold the four “flaps” of dough over the butter to completely encase it like an envelope, sealing the edges well. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
4. The Folding Process (Le Tourage):For this recipe, Chef Robuchon traditionally uses 5 single turns to build over 1,000 layers of flaky pastry. [1, 2, 3]
First 2 Turns: On a lightly floured surface, gently roll the dough into a long rectangle (3 times as long as it is wide). Fold the top third down, and the bottom third up (like a business letter). Turn the dough 90 degrees. Roll out and fold again. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Chill: Wrap in plastic and chill in the refrigerator for 30 – 45 minutes. [1, 2, 3]
Next 2 Turns: Repeat the letter-folding process twice more. Chill again for 30 – 45 minutes. [1, 2]
Final Turn: Give the dough its 5th and final single turn. Chill for at least an hour before rolling it out to your desired thickness for tarts, mille-feuilles, or savory en-croute dishes.
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Classic Puff Pastry
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Chef Robuchon’s Classic Puff Pastryを参考に^_^
Keep the butter at room temperature. Melt the chocolate at 35/40°C in a bain-marie.
In a saucepan, bring the cream to the boil then pour it in 3 times over the melted chocolate , continuing to mix. Then add the softened butter and mix to obtain a homogeneous chocolate ganache .
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The Mona Lisa cookie :
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Sift the flour . Pour the ground almonds , honey and icing sugar into the bowl of the food processor fitted with the whisk. Pour in half the eggs and emulsify for 8 minutes. Add the remaining eggs and emulsify for 12 minutes. Pour a little of this preparation into the melted butter and mix.
Whip the egg whites with the caster sugar then incorporate into the first preparation. Pour in the flour and stir gently before adding the butter .
Preheat your oven to 230°C. Weigh 400g of biscuit then spread it using an angled paddle on a plate covered with baking paper so that it is very smooth.
Bake for around 5 minutes. Once out of the oven , slide the baking paper with the biscuit onto a wire rack. Invert on a sheet of silicone paper sprinkled with powdered sugar then peel off the baking paper. On a cutting board, with a knife, cut out 2 discs 20cm in diameter. Film it
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I wonder Penpal Alec knows “injection in Kyoto”
Police brutality!
BLM started in Minneapolis.
Jose was living in Minneapolis, Penpal Alec was saying he likes Jazz…(I don’t know if he knew Jose’s music….)
I’ll ask him in a next letter.
Elijah was killed by injection on the street in America.
relaxmax is still alive (staying alive is no JIVE!), but injection in Kyoto … ! and heart failure!
Dose Alec knows this?
(I mentioned it but… I’ll write about it but more prob…)
I need help!
I tought, Penpal Alec can help somehow! …but I guess I need to tell him “how”? Or…? Don’t know what Alec can do, (Magnum knows good lawyers?)
“I think any Black man in America can relate to either one of these songs. We all have a very personal connection to what happened to these two Black men. I grew up right next to 38th and Chicago, where Floyd was killed by a cop. I was a teenager walking around with a hoodie. I had my share of harassment and got beaten up by strangers.”
Let it be
やさしさに包まれたなら
fly me to the moon
Everybody loves sunshine
Search the heavens
Be my baby
渚のバルコニー
アポロ
Californication
Ghost town
C.R.E.A.M.
Check the Rhime
Tennessee
The revolution will not be televised
1 thing
Milkshake
No surprises
Don’t look back in anger
Fikisha
Zanzibar
You can’t always get what you want
星の彼方へ
Love is everywhere
Past time paradise
Joga
The end of the world
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing
In love with you
Tear drop
Limit to your love
Vogue
California soul
Cabin in the sky
Different World
Do To Me
Get Closer
LK
Calypso Breakdown
Take it easy my brother Charlie
Playground love
Only love can break your heart
The Whistle song
Loving you
I just googled …
(I kind of remember about Alec’s adoptation…so I tried to find out…)
The girl is in her 20s:)!
Bogotá…(?
Ah Quantic was living there
I got my poster in 2007, he was his Colombian wife at that time…
Prob Rob san remember my poster in my room!
It was hand made! (Mano! Hecho en!)
It’s stolen…
(My insta’s 1st pic:)!
I started to use in 2010)
And Rob San prob remember my Polaroid in my room!
(It’s also stolen)
I sent 偽本(Fake book! Saying “HELP”!) to Alec…
I hope someone could help me somehow…
(I also commented on X
Saying
Please make “good country” kind of thing but don’t know if Starmer read it or…(pls make good country! WHITE didn’t pay “disabled”‘s wife (me なんだけど！foreigner!)…labels in Bristol!?didn’t pay Black ppl? No! Asian?)
(Maybe it’s better not to google it about his boy? Haha…!
I tried to know about Alec (not on the net kind of communication!)…with letters!
but :( I sometimes get info about his life on his insta…! A boy! Papa Alec!
His seven-year-old daughter Carmen had always liked playing with his digital camera. “I’ll sometimes give it to her and let her fire off 100 pictures and see what she comes up with,” he says.
「外国人に払う国作ってくれ！」(Leave to remain VISA持ってる外国人でイギリス人の「奥さん」なんだけど！イギリス人で「白人」で払ってくれないレーベルとか(、、、まぁロブさんの仕事相手とか)どうにかして！ってこと書いたことあるけど、、、「リツイート、なおみさん、BLM」みたいな感じで「声」が届いて(？)世界が変わるわけではなさそうで？(、、、偽本？顔？アタック？偽下着？続くの？)
Earlier this year, Alex Webb returned to the streets of Mexico, 50 years after his first trip in 1975, when he began photographing what would become his celebrated book La Calle, published by Aperture in 2016.
I said to him “I want to walk with you”…I was really nervous but…:) “and take some pictures with you in Oaxaca 2018!”
For Alex, it was after a long time. (after 90s? He didn’t come back to Oaxaca?)
He said “I don’t do that kind of things.”(I forgot exactly what he said but it was a first night on the roof top of their hotel, I was staying with my local friend.)
The meeting itself ran behind closed doors at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie from Wednesday to Sunday. With only minor changes to the current Magnum Board, Gregory Halpern, Lorenzo Meloni and Newsha Tavakolian remain Magnum co-presidents for the coming year.
(アレック・ソスは？)
led by the cooperative’s president. Cristina de Middel stepped down as Magnum President after a three-year tenure, and Marina Fusco of the Paul Fusco Estate became Chair of the Board, with Alec Soth, Lorenzo Meloni, and Gregory Halpern becoming the agency’s Co-Presidentsここにはこう書いてたけど。
I got my first “miumiu” in 90s.
My mom and my sis went to Hawaii. I didn’t go coz I didn’t want to wear swim wear… really “TEEN ME”! :)
Hawaii trip is kind of a gift from KIMONO shop.
They gave a free trip to Hawaii to moms and daughters.
My first “miumiu” is from an outlet in Hawaii. (Prob my sis chose it as a souvenir.)
I didn’t have a period.
I had a sex check when I was 17.(XX or XY)
My sis started her period before me, my mom bought “SEKIHAN= red bean and rice for ceremony!” but my sis and my mom celebrated in a secret and ate SEKIHAN…
I didn’t have a period, my body was really too childlike, and I was… so I didn’t want to wear swimwear! (I didn’t have secondary sexual characteristics…my bust like too child… my waist is not really curvy…!)
My teen memory and my first miumiu…(someone stole real miumiu from 90s and left FAKE! Like Banksy’s EXISTENCILISM 1/1000 in my flat in Osaka!)
I don’t know when “BADMAN! Stealer” stole my real one and left “this instax fake sunrise”! in my flat! (I didn’t know but this film is”WIDE”!? Is there wide instax in the UK?)
Following the original Polaroid Corporation’s bankruptcy in 2001, the production lines and proprietary analog formulas faced a turbulent transition. If your interest in “Polaroid UK 2002 machines” involves analog photography hardware from that era, here is how the landscape was shifting:
President Trump: “North Sea is loaded. I have had every oil company come to see me. Sir, could you give us access to the UK? We would do anything to drill in the North Sea.”
イギリスがthis is not our warってイランの最高指導者亡くなったころに言ってたのはNorth Seaのこともあるの？(オイル？)
アヴァロンって、、、North Seaからどのぐらい近い？
えーあい
North Sea oil consists of significant petroleum and natural gas reserves located beneath the North Sea, primarily divided between the UK and Norwegian sectors. While it previously secured energy independence and tax revenues for these nations, the basin is now a mature resource driving major economic and environmental debates
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The comparison between the North Sea and Newfoundland usually highlights their shared status as two of the world’s most treacherous marine environments and major offshore oil-producing hubs. Both regions face harsh, unforgiving weather, severe ocean currents, and icy conditions
Geological Origins: Both basins share a deeply connected ancient history. The rifting and sea-floor separation that created the North Atlantic Ocean around 130 million years ago led to the separation of Newfoundland from the Iberian Peninsula and the creation of sedimentary basins (including the North Sea).
The rifting and sea-floor separation
こういうこと誰だったら詳しくわかる？
もう破壊はどのぐらい始まって終わった？
that created the North Atlantic Ocean
北海のでき方？
(かと言って人工的に「別の島」は本当は作れないと思うけど！)
around 130 million years ago
神様以外
なぜ？
「偽太陽？？？(人工の地球？)」
作るの？
偽子宮？(本物を壊しながら？)
led to
the separation
creation
sedimentary basins
分離と形成
堆積盆地とオイル
埋まってるの？埋めたの？(偽？)
すでに偽fossils は見た
偽筆跡？偽歴史？
何をやりたかったかな？
「このオイルは俺のもの？」(偽オイルはまだ流通していない？)
偽不足？
そして本物の「ないこと」(安全なの？中国の「国土」？？？)
脳が奪われる
脳の時間は結局のこと奪えない？
失われない
失うこともあった？
できること？その破壊？？
Tectonic Breakup: The final stage of the North Atlantic break-up was accompanied by extensive magmatism
Final breakup
「final」なんだ、、、
マグマ！(偽マグマの活動では本当にない？、、、揺れてるよ？「偽地震」？？？)
ICEBURG finder なるものがあるらしい
(TRAIL とか HIKEな距離で「撮影できる」！
えー
Newfoundland行く「強い心臓」までいつ復活できる？)
Several weeks … I didn’t know he is away for “that long” :)!
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I was going to send you a letter today (Tuesday), but I changed my mind:)!
I’ll write you bit more or?
Someone already stole “a real postcard from TIBET”
but
Alec, you can send me a postcard from somewhere exotic!
Don’t know where you are now! (For several weeks?)
I can start collecting postcards from somewhere…(many letters have stolen :(!
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2025年夏（第78回総会）：クリスティーナ・デ・ミデル（Cristina de Middel）が3年の任期を終えて会長を退任し、アレク・ソス（Alec Soth）、ロレンツォ・メローニ（Lorenzo Meloni）、グレゴリー・ハルパーン（Gregory Halpern）の3名が共同会長に就任しました。
I don’t know why
English title is different from French Original…
あの本は欲しいけどまだ持ってない(、、、この家から引越して安全なとこ住みたい。その時買お笑)
I want “Images à la sauvette” but I’ll get one when I move and start to live somewhere not here and safe…:(
I found the word “receding” (I didn’t know this word coz I’m not native so I had to check dictionary or…)
偽本？
receding(遠のく、去ってゆく)
バスから流れてゆく車窓の景色=あの銀色に光る砂！24歳の私がメキシコのノルテで見た「美しいなにか」
It was something Camera can’t catch…
It’s already gone!
That silver night, sand and the moon in Norte Mexico from the bus window… it was a chilly night! Difficult to sleep…
INADEQUATE?
I can write about it :)!
There is always “that image” in me, if it’s far away memory…but “STILL”! Never disappear in a way.
共有？イメージを？？(嘘の共有したいのは戦争利用？偽本？偽歴史？？偽聖書はまだない？布教と植民地支配？)
So you want to “SHARE”? Images on the net? (Or share FAKEs? As a war time attack? Fake histories? Fake books or…Fake testament to controll and dominate “JAPAN” as one of colonies???…I am Japanese! Why so many FAKES in my flat in Osaka???)
消えないなにか？たとえ「偽本」「偽プリント」「偽フィルム」置いていかれまくったとしても？
Something never disappear?
If so many FAKE BOOKS or Fake prints or Fake films or…
Memory itself in ME relaxmax never goes…I “ALREADY” thought something:)! It’s enough! Now I think it’s okay and…
「メモリー」！私はすでに「なにかを思った」！それで十分なのかも？と今は思う！
それで思い出すのはImages à la sauvette消え去るイメージ
Images à la sauvette?
My title for rat one near my council flat in Easton is…”It’s all gone now” (all 2 L 10 prints are gone :(!)
BUT!
STILL
My “rat= It’s all gone now!” is in “their” memories! in their hearts!
My APS film “It’s all gone now rat!” is one before my marriage in my 20s.
I wrote something in the first letter to Alec, coz I found the word “INADEQUATE” when I opened the envelope.
receding(遠のく、去ってゆく)
それで思い出すのはImages à la sauvette
I found the word “receding”
when I was reading VOGUE magazine about Alec’s child home and Prince (Alec mentioned it in his second letter, I knew a bit, but didn’t know much about)
Receding landscape?…ah
(Young Alec)stared out the window at a receding landscape
I remember, ah I wrote about my “receding landscape from the bus window”
IKUE24 on the road of Norte Mexico
something Never can be photographed!
Images à la sauvette
Images have already gone
but stayed in me forever…that silver night, sand in Mexico and the moon!
アレックくんの質問の「答えのポエム」に書いたのは
IDFC
I don’t fuckin’ care
I wrote a replay poem to Alec’s question no.4 was…IDFC(I Don’t Fucking’ Care)
“IDFC
Inadequate? I Don’t Fuckin’ Care”
元々は2009年に私が作った言葉でもある。IDFKとIDFC
(I don’t fuckin’ knowもある^_^
ロブさんとの二人の言葉。親しい人の間で「つくる言葉」というか笑二人の間のギャグ？)
IDFC is just a made up word I was using between me and Rob san.
IDFK
IDFC
(Robondsandesuka?)
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LIGHT and WORD
THE WORDS CAN LIGHT THIS UNIVERSE
THE LIGHT of GOD within the words
This is what I am thinking about “THE WORD”.
I remembered about my own novel, while I was reading Alec’s second letter, so I wrote a chapter in my Japanese novel in English coz he said he can’t read Japanese…:)!
About a month ago, I was writing about “making an end”.
(JUST A CYBERPUNK “full moon”)
I was thinking that way originally, so I wrote like that (in a different chapter… it’s more for a message to the readers)
TALK only with TRU WORDS so that GOD “CAN” appear in your words.
THE WORD GOD lives
It’s a message
TRUTHFUL WORDS I always write
“It’s better you talk only with TRU WORD.”
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すべての人に力の夜を
De este momento de inspiración
Look outside ur window
Tell me now, what U C?
That’s gonna set somebody free
Get on the boat
Get on the boat, people
Get on the boat now
Never mind what time it is
The party just begun
No te alejes
De este momento de inspiración
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I’ve read about Tibetan Monks
(They are trying to find “the next His holiness” and they see the surface of the water to find God’s message.)
so I thought, ah! “THIS religion” also dose same! (I didn’t know!)
I find “a part” in a different religion like this:)!
So…! Other religions also have kind of similar traditions “to find God’s message in nature (surface of the water)”!
I decided to write my own novel as a poem using the same title “The Elephant in the Dark” before reading Sufi’s poem:)! (I’ve read an Indian story tho)
Why do “they criminals” want so many FAKES in their lives?(not for me! But they want to make FAKES and steal real prints or…
Baby bedのことをなんとなく覚えていて「タオル(どんなだったか)」くわしくは書いていないけど。多分、私は生後半年だったんじゃないかな？記憶の中のタオルと私。母がbaby bedの写真を撮っていたかは、、、正直ないかもな？とも思ったんだけれど。
I remember my baby bed, I do remember “the colour” of the towel in my baby bed but I didn’t describe (IDFC:)! Prob Alec can’t draw my baby bed! coz I didn’t tell him…haha!)
I was 6months old, smoothing out the wrinkles in the towel in my baby bed.
I guess my mom dosen’t have baby bed photo tbh…
I didn’t write about wrinkles of the towel in my letter to Alec, but I thought I write it here :)!
Paisley Park: The legendary former home, recording studio, and estate of musical icon Prince. Fans from all over the globe visit to tour this massive complex and pay homage to his legacy.
Chanhassen is a thriving, picturesque suburb situated about 16 miles southwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He rode his bicycle to the arboretum three miles west of Paisley; he would show up at the Caribou Coffee in Chanhassen and pay with a $100 bill, tipping the change, because his custom-made pants had no pockets.
-Neither of us had ever met Prince, but Alec had come close. In late 1985, Prince moved into a three-story yellow mansion on the land adjoining his family’s house, a couple of miles from where Paisley Park would be built. The two places were separated by woods, fields, a little creek. Alec was 15 and
アレックくんは15歳だったのか。。。
for at least a year he lived in the actual midst of Prince. “I would walk through the forests to the fence line, and watch his security patrol the place on snowmobiles,” he remembered. To live in such sheer proximity was to feel a little bit royal. And then, a year later, shortly after Alec’s family moved into the city, they heard Prince expanded his holdings, purchasing the property and demolishing the farmhouse that once stood there.
When Doves Cry
(、、、私にとって初めてのプリンス？どれだろう？案外覚えてないかも？)
I did have a sharp, distinct memory of the first time I’d heard Prince—“When Doves Cry,” as a kid on a long car ride a thousand miles away, when I was too young to understand the illicit and magic-genius things I heard within the song.
But even as I stared out the window at a receding landscape, I had the distinct impression I’d just been handed a connection to a future self.
I just thought today…(so I got Alec’s letter but it took really long?)
No postmark sometime?
今回は手書きで前回はタイプライター？(一応本物届いてる？^_^)
handwriting or typewriter :)
前回は
封筒の日付と中の、、、(そんなすぐ出したの？)
1st one I got (soon)
2nd one (…took so long???)
“TIME” (they want to steal time?)…or they want me to think that letter is only once, not going on??? Psychic attack? Spy from China song?, anyway, what they=hacker think?
えーあい
Alec Soth frequently incorporates handwriting and handwritten notes into his photobooks and zines as an intimate, tactile extension of his visual storytelling. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Soth’s use of handwritten elements appears across several notable projects:
Niagara (2006): In this monograph exploring the region around the famous falls, Soth includes handwritten love letters and cryptic notes taped to pages, capturing the vulnerability and desperation often trailing the aftermath of romance. The book’s faux-leather back cover even features an embossed, handwritten question. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Advice for Young Artists (2024): In this project documenting undergraduate art programs across the U.S., Soth scatters unfinished ideas and gnomic quotes scrawled on Post-it notes throughout the pages. [1, 2, 3]
Gathered Leaves Annotated (2022): This annotated retrospective of his major works contains margin scribbles, annotations, and taped-in handwritten notes to re-contextualize his past projects. [1, 2]
Winnebago Workshop (2016): Working with students on a traveling workshop, Soth paired individual portraits with personal writing by the subjects in their own handwriting. [1, 2]
Correspondence Projects: Soth has embraced this style outside of bound books too, such as his A Year of Letters project via his Little Brown Mushroom Newsletter, where he sends personalized letters hand-written or typed on the backs of his photographs to subscribers. [1]
If you are interested in his writing process or want to explore where to view scans of these handwritten spreads, let me know! I can help you find:
Specific galleries or online features showcasing his books
Information on his publishing house, Little Brown Mushroom
