Shot over the past fifteen years in places as culturally and geographically diverse as Italy and Louisiana, these photographs do more to foil the idea of travelogue than support it. Inverting the usual role of the “picture post-card,” the images in this collection favor the minutia of private experience over generalized representations of the well-known. Through pictures of detritus – the failed, the broken, and the lame – Jude is looking for something that echoes the texture of actual experience, and the small, hidden epiphanies that reside there.

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Ron Jude is a photographer whose work has been exhibited at venues such as the Photographers’ Gallery in London, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Roth Horowitz Gallery in New York and San Francisco Camerawork. His photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, Blind Spot, and DoubleTake magazines, among others. Jude is represented by Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles.

A-Jump Books is a small publishing house dedicated to producing photography-based books that challenge convention through understatement and artistic rigour. Using the ‘artists’ book’ concept as a model, we publish books that are conceived of and designed as self-contained works.