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Available for preorder: Hanafuda by Will Matsuda, Family Genus Species by Jeff Whetstone, Motherless Child by Tanyth Berkeley
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Paris, here we come, with three brand new books, fresh off the press!
Please join us on the boat @polycopies , table B24, to check out and get your advanced copies:
Family Genus Species by @jeffwhetstone
Hanafuda by @willfujiomatsuda
Motherless Child @tanythberkeley
Will and Jeff will be there, signing books Saturday 11/14:
Family Genus Species 15:00
Hanafuda 16:00
You know where it is, but if you don’t:
Bateau Concorde-Atlantique
Port de Solférino
opposite 23 quai Anatole
France, Paris 7e
Wednesday 11/11, 13:00-21:00
Thursday 11/12, 11:00-21:00
Friday 11/13, 11:00-21:00
Saturday 11/14, 11:00-21:00
Sunday 11/15, 11:00-21:00
06 Nov 2026
Preorders of @tanythberkeley ‘s Motherless Child come with a signed 4 × 6 print of Lee holding a flower.
Support independent photobook publishing by preordering your copy today!
Ships in December.
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While making street portraits in Atlanta, Tanyth Berkeley met Lee, a man who, she recalls, “glowed.” He became both her muse and someone she loved, and what began as a street photography project became something far more personal.
Over the next two years, Berkeley photographed their life together, creating an intimate portrait of a relationship that would eventually come to an end. Only years later did she realize that Lee had become, in part, a surrogate through whom she was trying to understand her father, who died of a drug overdose at twenty-three.
Motherless Child is a story of love, the lasting effects of childhood trauma, and the heartbreak of letting go.
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16.5cm x 23.5cm
softcover with dust jacket
96 pages (32 coated, 64 uncoated)
65 color images
05 Nov 2026
A process video of making “Mouth of Kingdom Come Creek.” It leaves out a few steps. Like development. And living on Kingdom Come Creek for four years and and hiking up the trail over the holler to take this picture and getting lost in the folds and waves of mountains and finally finding a road and hitchhiking back to my house. It’s the Last picture my new book - Family Genus Species by TIS Books. Pre-order is Now! Link in bio.
26 Oct 2026
We are pleased to announce that Hanafuda, @willfujiomatsuda first monograph, is now available for preorder, with copies shipping this winter. Link to preorder in bio.
Named after the traditional Japanese playing cards he learned from his grandmother during family gatherings in Hawaii, Hanafuda is a meditation on memory, family, and cultural inheritance, and the ways these shape our relationship to the natural world.
Organized into twelve suits corresponding to the months of the year, hanafuda cards depict flowers, animals, and landscapes in striking compositions of black, red, and white. Drawing on their imagery, as well as the visual traditions of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Matsuda creates photographs that he describes as “imperfect translations” of his relationship to Japanese-American culture—a process of exploring his heritage while making space for something new, free from the need to be “correct.”
The photographs move between intimate portraits, quiet observations of the natural world, and landscapes that evoke the passage of time and the persistence of memory. Like the cards themselves, they suggest connections between people, plants, animals, and the changing seasons. Yet their relationship to hanafuda is associative rather than literal, shaped as much by Matsuda’s experiences and memories as by the imagery of the cards.
At the heart of the project is a desire to bridge distances—between generations, between cultures, and between past and present. In Matsuda’s photographs, landscape becomes not simply a setting, but a site of memory, ancestry, and belonging.
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Reserve your copy now and help support independent publishing. Each advance order includes a signed 4 × 6 print.
Plus! Matsuda’s earlier TIS publication, The Potter Becomes The Pot, from the TIS03 series, is available for 25% off when purchased with a Hanafuda preorder (discount automatically applied in cart). Free domestic shipping on combined orders, which will ship together.
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17 × 21 cm
Linen hardcover with tipped-on image and silkscreen
64 pages
64 color images
ISBN 9781943146451
16 Oct 2026
@willfujiomatsuda on press @graficheantiga for Hanafuda, available now for preorder!
16 Oct 2026
@jeffwhetstone and @enlargedheart on press printing Family Genus Species @longo.media. Preorder now for your signed copy - also comes with signed 4x6 print.
14 Oct 2026
We are pleased to announce that ‘Family Genus Species’, @jeffwhetstone ’s first monograph, is now available for preorder, with copies shipping this winter.
Reserve your copy and help support independent publishing. Each advance order includes a signed 4x6 print of Logan with Alligator.
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‘Family Genus Species’ follows lives spent loving animals and negotiating man. Set in the backwoods, black-and-white photographs and short stories bring together Jeff Whetstone’s vision as both an artist and writer.
The title invokes Linnaean taxonomy, a system for classifying living things. The book draws on this order to consider the shifting relationships among people, animals, and the land.
Written with close observation and flashes of dark humor, the stories present animals and plants as sources of fascination, refuge, and uncertainty—and as a language for experiences the characters’ struggle to understand or express directly. A harmless animal can feel deadly; a creature believed to be dangerous may prove vulnerable; a plant’s scientific name can carry the memory of the person who first revealed it. Field guides, family lore, religious belief, and direct experience do not always agree, making what is known, imagined, or inherited difficult to separate.
Rendered in a rich, dark tonal range, the photographs move between intimate acts and communal rituals, human figures and animal specimens, natural growth and altered landscapes. Animals appear not only as living presences but as bodies that are handled, hunted, collected, or arranged for study. People are immersed in their surroundings through play and movement, while the land’s dense vegetation appears poised to absorb their imprint.
Together, the photographs and stories portray human life as part of—not apart from—the natural world they seek to describe and order.
03 Oct 2026
We’re going to be at @printedmatter_artbookfairs NYABF this weekend! Come by and say hi 👋🏻 We’ll be at Table F3 on the 1st Floor.
We’ll have all of our books available for purchase, and on Saturday at 3pm we’ll be hosting a signing with our TIS books friends from @theagencypublishing, @raymondmeeks and @jfridlyand.
Their books, A Common Place and Mango Season—along with @p.oculism ’s An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture—will be available for purchase at our table all weekend long.
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Fair is a ticketed event:
nyabf2026.printedmatterartbookfairs.org
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Thursday, September 24
7–10 PM
Friday, September 25
12–7 PM
Saturday , September 26
10 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 27
12–6 PM
22 Sep 2026
the Agency at the #NYABF
@tisbooks booth F3
Also books by Gossage, Meeks and Fridlyand published by TIS
Signing Saturday September 26 at 3pm
Hope to see you there!
22 Sep 2026
We’re proud to announce that @tanythberkeley ’s Motherless Child is now available for preorder
First 100 preorders come with signed 4x6 print
Link in bio
Ships Winter
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While photographing in Atlanta, Tanyth Berkeley found herself staying near Ponce de Leon Boulevard, where magnolias, forsythia, and wisteria bloomed alongside people who seemed, in her words, “beat up by life.” Drawn to the contrast between the flowers in bloom and the lives unfolding beneath them, she began making portraits of those she met. Among them was Lee, a man who, she recalls, “glowed.” Looking back on the work, she reflected that she had “begun with a different project in mind but then let the real chain of events tell the story.”
The book’s opening street portraits give way to a more intimate sequence that traces her life with Lee, reflecting her departure from the distance traditionally associated with her portraiture work into something far more personal. Lee became both her muse and someone she loved. For Berkeley, photography was a way of holding on to people—a collaboration and a means of honoring those connections. Over the next two years, the photographs remain rooted in the intimacy of their relationship as Lee’s life gradually begins to unravel. As addiction increasingly shaped his life, the photographs never lose sight of the man she first encountered. “To push that away is heartbreaking.”
Only years after their relationship ended did Berkeley realize that Lee had become, in part, a surrogate through whom she was trying to understand the father she lost to a drug overdose when he was twenty-three. The title, Motherless Child, comes from the spiritual that, in her words, “changes depending on who is singing it.” For her, Motherless Child came to embody the lasting effects of childhood trauma, the ways addiction shapes people’s lives, and how those histories have played out in her own.
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16.5cm x 23.5cm
softcover with dust jacket
96 pages (32 coated, 64 uncoated)
65 color images
ISBN 9781943146437
10 Sep 2026
We're excited to be at AIPAD again this year! We will have all of our latest titles on hand (booth P13), as well as some of our old favorites.
Signing Friday 5pm with
@balaramaheller
Sacred Place
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Wednesday, April 22
VIP Preview Evening
4pm – 9pm
Thursday, April 23
12pm – 8pm
Friday, April 24
12pm – 7pm
Saturday, April 25
12pm – 7pm
Sunday, April 26
11am – 5pm
20 Apr 2026
Sacred Place in the Sunday @nytimes !!
So grateful for the recognition this book has received!
@tisbooks for global shipping • link in bio
NYC in person purchase @rectangle.room // @primaryphotographic 113 Eldridge St
@nytopinion
21 Dec 2025
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