Daniel Shea: 'Distribution' [Book launch]

Join us at Dashwood Books for the launch of Daniel Shea’s new artist’s book Distribution. Opening with a series of portraits of Jessica, a women who represents the statistical median of a person living in the United States, before expanding outward to surfaces, buildings, trees, and eventually groups of people, Distribution is a book that asks how we locate subjects and attendant in a world shaped by competing density and dispersion. Includes book signing. 

Thursday 4 September
18:00 – 20:00 

Dashwood Books 
33 Bond St
New York
NY 10012

About Distribution 

This vast artist’s book began with a deceptively simple question: how do you photograph a forest? Daniel Shea found that forests presented a revealing challenge: that of capturing the whole – the immersive totality of being in nature – when photography so relentlessly pulls us to the fragment. Over several years and across varied geographies, he made photographs with deliberately constrained methods – rendering dense woodlands with a telephoto lens, capturing cities only through the window of a moving car – as if to invert the old adage about not seeing the forest for the trees. These working constraints foregrounded what resists representation: ecological complexity, social entanglement, and the architectures that influence both. Distribution explores the tension between environments that overwhelm with density and patterns that slowly emerge through repetition, accumulation, and framing.