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Scavenger: Adventures in Treasure Hunting – Jenny Riffle – Zatara Press – Press Release

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Zatara Press is pleased to announce the release of our 2nd book, Scavenger: Adventures in Treasure Hunting by Jenny Riffle.

100 Books from the Trade Edition are being sold as a Special Stereograph Version.
Each of these 100 copies come with a Scavenger stereograph card set and viewer.

Please feel free to view the stereographs here:

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9 x 12 Inches
38 Color Photographs + 1 Illustration
68 Pages + Cover
PUR Bound
ISBN: 978-09903321-3-8
Trade Edition: 500 Copies Total
Stereograph Version: 100 Copies Come With A Stereograph Card Set and Viewer

A handmade Limited Collected Edition Casebox of Scavenger with an original print and one of Riley’s found objects will be available in the Fall.

Book Statement:

“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”
-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Riley grew up in rural eastern Washington.  As a child he read Mark Twain’s stories of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and decided he wanted to be like those mythical boys.  He wanted a life full of treasure and adventure.  In the series Scavenger: Adventures in Treasure Hunting, photographer Jenny Riffle follows Riley out on his hunts and photographs the objects he collects.  Riffle explores the line between documentary and fantasy.  She portrays Riley as an adventurous character driven by the thrill of the hunt and the possibility of what he will discover.

At home Riley arranges and displays all of his treasure.  Accompanying 100 copies of the book Scavenger are a set of 15 stereograph cards and a portable viewer to allow the reader to experience Riley’s displays in 3D.  Looking into the stereoscope, the reader is invited into Riley’s world of found treasures.

Jenny Riffle was born in Washington State in 1979.  She received her MFA in Photo, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and her BA in photography from Bard College in 2001.  In 2014 Riffle was chosen as one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, she received the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant in 2013 and the Juror’s Award at Newspace Center for Photography’s 2012 Juried Show for her project Scavenger: Adventures in Treasure Hunting.  Riffle lives in Seattle where she teaches at the Photo Center Northwest.

-ZP

Call To Entry – Group Book 2015

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Zatara Press – 2015 Call To Entry Group Book

Book Descriptions:

Each year, Zatara Press produces an affordable Call To Entry Group Book around a themed prompt.  From the submissions, a selection of photographs will be sequenced and edited into a small digital press perfect bound conceptual artist’s book around the unique interactions of the photographs.  Each selected photographer will receive 4 copies of the book.

ZP’s statements on design and photobook creation can be found here.

Themed Prompt:

Life, Love, Reality, Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow—
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream:
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand—
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep—while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
– Edgar Allen Poe, “A Dream within a Dream”
The Complete Poetical Work Of Edgar Allen Poe,
Edited Annotated and Arranged with Memoir By John H. Ingram

Sitteth the city, wherein I was born,
Upon the sea-shore where the Po descends
To rest in peace with all his retinue.

Love, that on gentle heart doth swiftly seize,
Seized this man for the person beautiful
That was ta’en from me, and still the mode offends me.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,
Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,
That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me;

Love has conducted us unto one death.
– Dante, The Inferno – Canto V
Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Specifications:

Please include the following:
Submit up to 10 images that are a coherent statement or project
Label Files: lastname_firstname_projectname_01.jpg
JPEGs AdobeRGB 1500px on the longest side 72 DPI
Resume/CV and Short Bio
Send in a ZIP Folder or via wetransfer.com
(If your work is selected ZP will ask for larger resolution 300dpi tiff files) 
Email everything to:

Submission Deadline:  June 12, 2015
Extended Deadline: June 16, 2015

Notification Date:  June 22, 2015

Expected Public Release Date:  July 6, 2015

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