Alessandra Sanguinetti: Sorry Welcom

Artists this year include Christian Patterson, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Raymond Meeks and Wolfgang Tillmans. All four are highly acclaimed and recognized for their artistic visions. Each has created a unique and thoughtful book exclusively for TBW Books. Each title contains a unique edition number stamped into every book.BOOK 1 Christian Patterson, Bottom of the Lake The artist revisits his hometown, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (French for "Bottom of the Lake") and weaves together visual threads related to the town's iconography, climate and culture. BOOK 2 Alessandra Sanguinetti, Sorry, Welcome A glimpse into the artist's life the way it looked throughout the winter of 2012/13. Shot over a short period of time, Sanguinetti took a step back and became a voyeur of her own life. The images were made in and around her home in San Francisco Ca. and explores dynamics between the union of two unique families.BOOK 3 Raymond Meeks, Erasure Erasure signals a transition from photographic narratives centered on collaboration with Meeks' immediate family toward an outward gaze; making order of the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home in Providence R.I. Using printing techniques of both over exposing and laying a "base fog" to the image surface, Meeks is literally masking what he deems "the painful and ugly" in his view of the world. This method of darkroom-photoshop creates a truly unsettling yet beautifully unique book.BOOK 4 Wolfgang Tillmans, Utoquai The series closes with Tillmans' Utoquai, a book classically his own while still pushing the language of photography forward, something that has become synonymous with his name. The focus is a single subject and openly presents his ongoing friendship and unrequited love in a way that is compelling, adventurous and vulnerable in equal measures.