Sea Fever
Signed, limited book maquette
Photographs by Leah Frances
Supported by the Pouch Cove Foundation
Printed in Chanhassen, MN

Details
40 photographs
66 pages
8×8 inches
Perfect bound with hand-taped spine
Cover: Soft touch 100# cover weight matte paper with gold foil lettering
Interior: 100# text weight smooth, uncoated white paper

Includes signed 5x5 inch print with .5” border on fine art paper

1st edition
Edition size: 50

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Excerpt from the introduction:
The photographs in this book represent a collection of my personal experiences, chiefly in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, during a residency at The Pouch Cove Foundation. In this place, there is one main road, called Main Road. There are no sidewalks and the drivers on Main Road are fast, having navigated its bends and dips for a lifetime. I walked this road for hours each day in search of photographic subjects. Hours that I put in my calendar ahead of time and clung to with determination, gripping onto my plan to avoid falling into the gulf of loneliness that traveled beside me. At a rare moment I might spy someone walking, like me, alone, long in the distance, after not having seen anyone for days. Growing nervous, “I have to photograph this person!” I would think. They’d loom toward me, slowly growing bigger and bigger in my field of vision. My nerves tingling... I’d finally ask them.  

There are no gathering spaces in this town, aside from a haphazard wooden crate turned on its side in front of the one convenience store. The same fearful loneliness that penetrated my psyche, did it also disturb my fellow walkers? Can you see it in my pictures? …

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Price: $40