Kaddish deals with the loss of three people very close to me (my dad, cousin and childhood friend), and considers the ways that these voids are reflected in surprising and often absurd ways, everyday. The oldest picture in the book is of my great uncle in Rome in 1947. The most recent is of my shadow on a wall in Germany in 2023.

Hundreds of images collected and saved over the past twenty years form an amorphous, ambient scroll of information: photographs from my archive, text messages, emails, images from family albums, home movies, screengrabs and iPhone photos.

Kaddish looks at the ways in which material history, representation and identity are bound together, and grow more complicated with the passage of time.

The book reflects a pendulum of personal grief, couched among the anxieties of historical memory and its relationship to global violence playing out in the present. It is an unstable, living archive which traces a meandering path from New York to Germany, Israel and Palestine.

 

Available from select booksellers:

Dashwood Books (NY)

Bungee Space (NY)

Center for Art Research & Alliances (NY)

Miriam Gallery (NY)

Homerun (NY)

Baltimore Photo Space (MD)

Skylight Books (LA)

Familiar Trees (MA)

Bildband (Berlin)

Le Bal (Paris)

Public Knowledge Books (UK)