Jess T. Dugan News - Nominated on shortlist for Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2022, published by Mack Books

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News from Jess T. Dugan - Nomination of their illustrated book "Look at me like you love me "on the shortlist of the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2022 and an appearance of the artist in Paris from 10 to 13 November 2022

Cover Jess T. Dugan News - "Look at me like you love me" Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Düsseldorf, October 15, 2022: American photographer Jess T. Dugan has been nominated for the shortlist of the prestigious Paris Photo - Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2022 with their illustrated book "Look at me like you love me". From November 10 to 13, the winners will be announced in Paris and Jess T. Dugan will be there to sign their book, which will be published by Mack Publishing. The special edition of "Look at me like you love me" includes an additional image plate signed by the artist, tipped into the inside back cover.

St. Louis-based artist Jess T. Dugan has become known worldwide for their color photographs of social portraits that explore identities, particularly gender and sexuality. "There's so much I can't say in my photographs, but it's all there, just below the surface, if you know what to look for." Jess T. Dugan

Dugan has long used photography to understand their own identity. In their first book, Look at Me Like You Love Me, Jess T. Dugan reflects on desire, intimacy, society, and the way our identities are shaped by these experiences. Dugan brings together self-portraits, portraits of individuals and couples, and still lifes, interwoven with diary-like notes that reflect on relationships, loneliness, family, loss, healing, and the changes that make up a life. Using medium format cameras and natural light, Dugan employs traditional photographic practices. "Look at Me Like You Love Me" functions as both an extended, oblique self-portrait and a catalog of friends and loved ones.

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Düsseldorf, 15. Oktober 2022: Die amerikanische Fotografin Jess T. Dugan wurde mit their Bildband „Look at me like you love me“ für die Shortlist des renommierten Paris Photo - Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2022 nominiert. Vom 10. bis 13. November werden in Paris die Gewinner bekannt gegeben und Jess T. Dugan wird dort their Buch, das im Mack Verlag erschienen wird, signieren. Die Sonderausgabe von „Look at me like you love me“ enthält eine zusätzliche, vom Künstler signierte Bildtafel, die in die hintere Umschlaginnenseite eingeklebt ist.

Die in St. Louis lebende Künstlerin Jess T. Dugan wurde weltweit bekannt für their Farbfotografien mit sozialen Porträts, die sich mit Identitäten, insbesondere mit Geschlecht und Sexualität, auseinandersetzen. „Es gibt so viel, was ich in meinen Fotografien nicht sagen kann, aber es ist alles da, direkt unter der Oberfläche, wenn man weiß, wonach man suchen muss.“ Jess T. Dugan.

Dugan nutzt die Fotografie seit langem, um their eigene Identität zu verstehen. In their ersten Buch „Look at me like you love me“ reflektiert Jess T. Dugan über Begehren, Intimität, Gesellschaft und die Art und Weise, wie unsere Identität durch diese Erfahrungen geformt wird. Das Buch vereint Selbstporträts, Porträts von Einzelpersonen und Paaren sowie Stillleben, verwoben mit tagebuchartigen Aufzeichnungen, die über Beziehungen, Einsamkeit, Familie, Verlust, Heilung und die Veränderungen, die ein Leben ausmachen, nachdenken. Mit Mittelformatkameras und natürlichem Licht setzt Dugan traditionelle fotografische Praktiken ein. „Look at me like you love me“ funktioniert sowohl als erweitertes, schräges Selbstporträt als auch als Katalog von Freunden und geliebten Menschen.

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Photos from "Look at me like you love me " by Jess T. Dugan

Jess T. Dugan, ‘Window at sunrise, 2021’, from Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Jess T. Dugan, ‘JD and Steve, 2020’, from Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Jess T. Dugan, ‘Collin at sunset, 2020’, from Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Jess T. Dugan, ‘Yellow rose, 2020’ from Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Jess T. Dugan, ‘Self-portrait (reaching), 2021’, from Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Jess T. Dugan, ‘Kalven at sunset, 2021’, from Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Copies of the book are available from Mack Publishing.

Embossed linen hardcover

23,5 x 29,5 cm, 108 pages

ISBN 978-1-913620-54-7

February 2022

€45 £35 $55

https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/look-at-me-like-you-love-me-br-jess-t-dugan

The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.

The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards was launched in November 2012 by Aperture and Paris Photo. The award recognizes excellence in three main categories of photo book publishing: First PhotoBook, Photo Book of the Year, and Photo Catalog of the Year. The winner of The First PhotoBook Prize will receive $10,000 in prize money. The thirty-five shortlisted books will be exhibited at the Grand Palais Éphémère and then tour the world: Printed Matter, New York; PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography, Melbourne; Museum of Photography, Seoul; Officine Fotografiche Roma; Lumos Exhibition Space, Daegu; and Lightbox Photo Library, Taipei.

Learn more:

aperture.org

Der Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards wurde im November 2012 von Aperture und Paris Photo ins Leben gerufen. Der Preis würdigt herausragende Leistungen in drei Hauptkategorien der Fotobuch Veröffentlichung: Erstes Fotobuch, Fotobuch des Jahres und Fotokatalog des Jahres. Der Gewinner des The First PhotoBook Prize erhält ein Preisgeld von 10.000 Dollar. Die fünfunddreißig Bücher, die in die engere Wahl kommen, werden im Grand Palais Éphémère ausgestellt und touren dann durch die ganze Welt: Printed Matter, New York; PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography, Melbourne; Museum of Photography, Seoul; Officine Fotografiche Roma; Lumos Exhibition Space, Daegu; and Lightbox Photo Library, Taipei.

Collin at sunset - 2020 ©Jess T. Dugan

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