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Announcing El Mundo Inalcanzable de Susana San Juan, a new Luxury Edition Book from Luna Press

A signed and numbered edition of 7, the book is entirely handcrafted and features 47 original photogravures.

This book would not have been possible without an exceptional team! Thank you to Jacqueline Miro & Madelyn Owens for designing, to Jennifer Shaw & Meg Turner for photogravure printing, to Sarah Smith of Stock Pile for binding, and to John Fitzgerald for letterpress printing.

“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

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2023 Mississppi Book Festival

On August 19th, Luna Press and books by Josephine will be at the Mississippi Book Festival. Every August, the Mississippi Book Festival brings readers and authors together in historic Jackson for an exhilarating celebration of books. This event is free and open to the public, with plenty of programming and activities for all ages. 

Make sure to stop by the Luna Press table to view all of Josephine’s latest titles. 

Saturday, August 19th, 9am-5pm
400 High St
Jackson, MS

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WINDOWS at A Gallery For Fine Photography – New Orleans

Windows
A Gallery For Fine Photography
241 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130

Artist Reception: Saturday, April 22, 4 – 6 p.m.

on view April 14 – September 30

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“What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a window pane.”  
– Charles Baudelaire

These images were taken over the last 30 or so years but here they are, seen through the window pane of my memory. – Josephine Sacabo 

2022 PhotoNOLA Festival — New Orleans, LA

Luna Press and books by Josephine will be available at the PhotoNOLA PhotoBOOK fair. This event offers the chance to peruse a beautiful array of contemporary photobooks & zines, and engage with the artists and publishers who created them.

The PhotoBOOK Fair will be held in the historic library space at Ogden Museum of Southern Art  — make sure to stop by the Luna Press table to view all of Josephine’s latest titles.

December 9, 12-4:30pm and 6-9pm
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St, New Orleans, LA

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MUSIC WAS IN THE ROOM SHE LIVED IN at A Gallery for Fine Photography – New Orleans

Music was the Room She Lived In
A Gallery for Fine Photography
241 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

on view September 30, 2021 – January 7, 2022

Josephine Sacabo’s latest exhibit, Music Was the Room She Lived In, is a collection of twenty-one hand-pulled photogravures spanning four bodies of work: Music was the Room She Lived In, Photisms, Le Diable Au Corps (Devil in the Flesh), and Those Who Dance.

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Virtual Reception and Artist Talk with Josephine and the Polk Museum of Art

Virtual Reception and Artist Talk with Josephine Sacabo

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Friday, October 8, 6pm EST
Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College
Live via Zoom

Join us for this virtual artist talk to learn about Josephine’s decades-long career, the inspiration and mystery behind her works of art, and her ability to give a voice to women of the past whose legacies still inspire us today. Thank you to the Polk Museum and Dr. Alex Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Polk Museum, for hosting this event!

LACP Artist Talk: with Josephine Sacabo, Wendi Schneider, and Hiroshi Watanabe

LACP 2021 Gala & Auction – Virtual Artist Talk
Tuesday, September 21, 5pm PST
Los Angeles Center for Photography
For more information: lacphoto.org

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Josephine will appear in an artist lecture alongside fellow photographers Wendi Schneider and Hiroshi Watanabe for the Los Angeles Center of Photography, as part of their 2021 Gala & Auction. At this free virtual event, she will be discussing her image “Bigotry,” available for auction now until October 4th. Thank you to the LACP organizers!


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Those Who Dance Exhibition at Polk Museum of Art — Lakeland, FL

Josephine Sacabo: Those Who Dance
Polk Museum of Art
800 E Palmetto St, Lakeland, FL 33801
polkmuseumofart.org

on view June 5, 2021 — October 17, 2021

Through the four recent series that form the core of the exhibition (Those Who Dance, Disquiet, Cuentos, and Le Diable au Corps), Sacabo conjures a world of mystery and mysticism in her work, excavating stories about lives lived in secret struggle or without inhibition, reviving traditional processes of photography like photogravure and tintypes, and giving much-needed voice to women of the past whose legacies still inspire and haunt the artist to this day.  – H. Alexander Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Polk Museum of Art 

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Josephine Interviewed on SE Center for Photography’s BookTalk Series

We are delighted to share this interview with Josephine from the October 17 edition of BookTalk, hosted by the Southeast Center for Photography. Josephine discusses her latest publication from Luna Press, Structures of Reverie, as well as her new exhibition, THOSE WHO DANCE. A huge thank you to Michael Pannier at the SE Center for Photography for hosting, and to Fran Forman for sharing her work as well. Watch the full interview below.

Josephine Featured in Where Y’At Magazine

Josephine recently discussed her newest series, THOSE WHO DANCE, as well as her life, her love of poetry, and her path to discovering photography, with Where Y’At Magazine. Many thanks to the author Abbey Hebert for this wonderful feature!

“Sacabo finds the consolidation of her artistic ideas in literature. She explained that once an idea presents itself to her, she usually reads a line or a phrase from a book that pinpoints exactly what she was trying to get across. Once she finds this, the project has officially started. One of Sacabo’s interests is how the mediums of art communicate with one another, and this is a perfect example of that connection between poetry—her first love—and photography, her true love.”

Read the article: Abbey Hebert, Where Y’At Magazine, September 23, 2020

Structures of Reverie Recommended by The US Review of Books

Structures of Reverie was recently reviewed by the US Review of Books, where it received their coveted RECOMMENDED rating.

“Upon opening the book, the feel and fragrance are intoxicating, creating an aura of mystery and freedom from confinement …. Sacabo’s work is imbued with a translucent quality … there is no hindrance in conjuring limitless possibility.”

Read the article: Mihir Shah, The US Review of Books, June 30, 2020

Structures of Reverie Receives 2020 Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention Award

We are proud to announce that Structures of Reverie, Josephine’s latest book published by Luna Press, has received the Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention Award.

“The nexus of form and emotion merges in Sacabo’s artistic photographic plates. Page after page, black and white composite exposures achieve the mystique of charcoal drawings. A shadow falls over them, holding both our attention and the ghosts within the images in place, all while bending and evading the linearity this collection explores.”

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To learn more about the Eric Hoffer Award and see the lists of Winners and Finalists, click here.

Josephine Featured in The Hand Magazine

We are honored that Josephine Sacabo has been chosen as the featured cover artist for Issue 27 of The Hand Magazine. The issue features a wide-ranging interview presented in a beautiful multi-page spread.

It’s always amazing for me to hear what other people see in what I do – different people’s reaction to my work. Sometimes I can hardly recognize what’s being described to me as my photographs. But the essential communication is there and that is really important to me – a connection has been made. I love that.

Read the Issue: The Hand Issue #27, January 2020