Fallen Things Photo Book

A collection of black and white images taken in the southeast and midwest, Fallen Things is a meditation on the uncanny, derelict beauty of the mundane world around us.

The project began on morning walks around Durham with my dog, as we'd notice odds and ends on the ground. Not quite litter, I came to see discarded objects as kinds of temporary, accidental sculptures. So I began taking photos of them. A keyboard nestled in a bed frame, a basketball hoop woven into a pile of birch branches, a doll head placed precariously on the end of a leafless branch. We shape our world with the things we leave behind, for better or worse, but indelibly nonetheless.

The book is 82 pages, perfect bound and printed locally in Durham on 100lb Mohawk photo paper. A majority of the images were taken on black and white medium format film, which I processed, scanned, and edited. Each copy of the book comes with a little set of birch leaves hand-stamped on the title page. 🍂