Published by Daylight Books, Relative Strangers by street photographer Teri Vershel highlights the unseen connections in the everyday. Many of her photographs in the book are presented as diptychs and weave narratives between images that tell stories of a shared humanity. Vershel explains: “I’ve been a people watcher all my life and I am always striking up conversations with strangers I meet every day on the street, so continuing in this vein with a camera feels natural. While the people in the photographs are strangers, I find by comparison that they are often related.”
In his foreword, Sam Abell, a staff photographer for National Geographic for 33 years, writes that “each of Teri’s images can and should be read like this: as a stand-alone aesthetic experience”. But the design of this book offers another intriguing opportunity. And that is to see individual images as one half of an arresting duet. By pairing Teri’s images, new patterns—of content, color, texture, and graphics—emerge. The succession of these pairings builds into a fresh, original portrait of street life. The photos were made in San Francisco and New York City, among other locales.
Teri Vershel : Relative Strangers
Foreword by Sam Abell
Published by Daylight Books
Hardcover
10 x 8 inches
116 pages
ISBN: 978-1-95411-927-7
$50
https://daylightbooks.org/products/relative-strangers
