American PhotographsPreviously unseen black & white photographs taken in the United States by Michael Ormerod (1947 1991) will form this new book. Ormerod was a British photographer whose life was tragically cut short in August 1991 following a road accident on his last field trip to the US. For the past decade the photographers daughter, Ali Ormerod, has worked alongside photographers Geoff Weston and Alan Thoburn to search through his archives of unprinted negatives to

"This is the work of a photographer of genius recreating the discardable mystery of his past

fractured after leader Warren Jeffs was imprisoned in 2011

senior curator of photography

or a result of the muffling effects of weather

Illuminating fifty years of evolution in the field of art criticism

in which rhymes answer and echo each other

I was restless (and I still am)

Greg Miller asked a New Yorker why they were wearing ashes on their forehead

photographing everything to find my place and my space: this omnivorous longing didn’t and doesn’t allow me to stop

When I became a mother to a son

they are places that I had never before visited

catching spontaneous moments at home and with friends