Signed copy of Nightairs, with a special edition 8x12 inch signed, archival print.

Twenty-six species of the insect family Lampyridae, commonly known as fireflies, have been identified in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio. For a brief moment at the very end of their lives, nineteen of these species communicate with silent, bioluminescent displays of wildly diverse flash patterns and colors—a procession of codes varying in precise accordance to habitat, season and time of night. With long exposures, I have recorded these dialects of light since 2019, exploring one luminous facet of life in the temperate deciduous forests of Ohio’s Allegheny Plateau, which host a near-infinite diversity of natural forms evolving through seasonal change atop eroded mountains and the stratified sediments of ancient seas.

Exquisitely HR-UV printed in full color on uncoated paper by the legendary Robstolk printing house in Amsterdam, with hand-mixed yellow ink from Japan and extended black to convey the depth and texture of night.

• Published in 2023 by Fw:Books

• Printed by Drukkerij robstolk

• Softcover, 80 pages

• 25 x 32 cm

• ISBN 978-90-832858-6-3

Hand-wrapped in a press sheet from the day the book was printed.

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