2023
A signed and numbered edition of 7, El Mundo Inalcanzable de Susana San Juan is entirely handcrafted and features 47 original photogravures.
Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Juan Rulfo
Prologue by Elena Poniatowska
Signed & numbered edition of 7
Foil-stamped, 12″ x 16″ hardcover in clamshell box
130 pages, 47 original photogravures
Design by Jacqueline Miro and Madelyn Owens
Photogravures printed by Jennifer Shaw and Meg Turner
Hardbound by Sarah Smith, Stock Pile, Brooklyn, NY
Letterpress by John Fitzgerald
Published by Luna Press
“El Mundo Inalcanzable de Susana San Juan is a series of photographs based on the Mexican novel Pedro Páramo, a tragic myth of Mexico, by Juan Rulfo. The setting is a town in ruins; the characters, souls wandering in it, doing penance, telling their stories.
These photographs are my attempt to depict this world as seen through the eyes of its tragic heroine. It is my homage in images to Mexico, to Juan Rulfo and to Susana San Juans everywhere who will not be possessed.”
— Josephine Sacabo