HENRY ROLLINS - Autographed Occupants Available For Pre-Order
August 11, 2011, 13 years ago
A limited signed edition of HENRY ROLLINS' new book, Occupants, is available for pre-order by clicking here. The book's cover, as well as a few words from Rollins himself can be found below:
At some point, I upgraded my gear and took a lesson from a woman named Maura on basics and eventually started shooting in manual.
As I traveled and took more photographs I came to the conclusion that the book had to be more than merely a collection of images. If you are a real photographer, you could perhaps get away with that but not me. I am not a photographer, just someone with a lot of visas in his passport and a camera on his shoulder. The last thing I wanted was for someone to think I was being pretentious. I thought about what I could do to make the book be more time intensive on my part, so there would be more for the person who endeavored to get the book. I came to the conclusion that I would write something for each photo. In fact, I would write two things; an impression of the photograph and a caption that provided more of the practical information about where the image was captured, etc.
The writing was difficult and there was a lot of it to do. I committed myself to completing the project and eventually, it was finished. It ended up being one of the most time intensive projects I have ever put myself though. Not only was the writing tasking but I had to teach myself how to process photographs. The learning curve was pretty steep on that part of it but I think I did ok.
I decided to call the book Occupants. I figure that's what we are. We get some time on the planet and that's it.
I have never done a book like Occupants before, we are very excited about this one."