Booksmithing

  • Photography and Design

    These forty-two photographs depict individual animals from farm, zoo, beach, forest and my backyard in beautiful duotones. View it online.

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  • Photography and Design

    This collection of thirty-six landscapes and wildlife photographs was predominantly shot in western parks, including Rocky Mountain, Grand Tetons, and Yellowstone National Parks. Click here to view the book.

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  • Photography and Design

    Aves represents the cream of five years of bird photography. With an Introduction by celebrated nature author Brad Matsen, this hardcover book contains over fifty color photographs.

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  • Photography, Writing & Design

    My popular first book of bird photographs is now in its fourth printing. It accompanied two solo exhibits. On sale here.

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  • Photography, Writing & Design

    My second bird book juxtaposes pictures to better depict birds in their environments. Includes Hawaiian species.

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  • Curation, Editing, Writing & Design

    “Gorgeous. Like having a museum exhibition at your fingertips.” –SF Chronicle. Multimedia, interactive book to accompany a California Historical Society exhibit I co-curated on the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant. Download free book.

  • Writing

    I wrote the introduction to this magnificent collection of paintings in Linda Okazaki’s retrospective exhibit at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Buy the book.

  • Editing & Design

    For her retrospective at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, I helped Linda Okazaki prepare this small book of poems and paintings. Buy the book.

  • Design

    I designed this book for Tangled Fibers, a group of four fiber artists, in conjunction with an exhibition at Port Angeles Fine Arts Gallery. Purchase here.

  • Editing & Design

    For an exhibition I co-curated, a retrospective of a pioneering undersea National Geographic photographer. Text by award-winning nature writer Kenneth Brower. Purchase here.

  • Writing

    Brian Goodman asked me to write the introduction to a book that collects over four decades of his photographs.

  • Editing, Writing & Art Direction

    I produced this bilingual book for the bicentennial of Fort Ross. Paper and digital. Published by California State Parks Foundation. Purchase here.

  • Editing & Design

    Sara Mall Johani offers a short, illuminating history of a group of artists who inspired efforts to restore salmon to our watersheds. Available at Grover Gallery, Port Townsend.

  • Editing

    I spent a year helping Duncan Ryūken Williams refine his compelling stories of the freedom struggles of Japanese-American Buddhists during WWII. Harvard Press. Sample chapter on the author’s web site.

  • Design

    Ray Troll created an affectionate photographic memoir of his days as an art student at Bethel College in Kansas.

  • Editing

    Berkeley’s Ken Bamberger and Deidre Mulligan compared privacy regulation in four European countries and the U.S. to reveal a framework for what works, and doesn’t. MIT Press. Purchase here.

  • Editing

    Tobias Rees documents the inner workings of the lab and life of a French scientist who has upended our conception of the brain and ourselves. UC Press. Purchase here.

  • Editing & Writing

    I edited these interviews with prominent photographers and wrote the Introduction. Smithsonian Press and Random House. Buy the book.

  • Writing

    Seeing Feeling is the title of my essay on Wayne Miller’s photography and career. Buy the book.

  • Editing & Design

    This is the catalog from an exhibition at the Ansel Adams Center in San Francisco highlighting the first Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography awards. Buy the book.

  • Design

    This children’s book on Alaska Dinosaurs features artist Ray Troll with text by Kirk Johnson , paleontology director at the Smithsonian.

Poster Design