Find the Photographers and Photography You Love…
The Sell Books to Make Books Sale!!
The founding principle for F2.8 Press was to find undiscovered photographers whose work deserved a wider audience. We would pay them up front for the privilege of presenting their work. Then F2.8 would handle all the details and heavy lifting of publishing, marketing and distributing the final product. Then we would take the revenue from the first titles and do it all again for other undiscovered artists. This bucks the traditional model for Photobook making, where up-front costs are often covered by the artist themselves, who hope to recover their investments with the back-end royalties from book sales. We are not alone in putting faith in our artists, but we are amongst a small set of rebels here.
For this to work and so we can begin to present you with more fresh visions, we need to sell some books! So, we are having our first ever sale! For the month of February, we will be knocking off $2 from every Archive monograph that is in stock and $5 off existing book titles. Now is a great time to complete your library of F2.8 Books and Archive editions! If you already have a complete collection, then share this with someone who loves photography and photobooks as much as you do.
Browse our STORE to see some amazing work!
Current Artist
Lawrence Lazare
Lawrence Lazare is a photographer and writer who is currently pursuing a BFA in Studio Art at the University of West Florida. He spent the first decade of his career in the music business as a promoter, booking agent, and artist manager. In 1995, he became part of the first wave to build the commercial internet. He spent 25 years as a product manager specializing in R&D and new product development for large media companies. During the last part of his career, he built AI-based search tools for photographers and filmmakers and holds two patents for image-based search and categorization.
In 2020, Lazare became legally blind after losing his central vision from Stargart’s, a genetic retinal disease, forcing him into an early retirement. He decided to return to college to pursue a BFA in Studio Art, focusing on film photography. His photographs have been displayed in museums and galleries in Michigan, Florida, and New Orleans. He writes on the intersection of blindness and photography on Medium.com.
The Museum Gaze
In 2012, while attending a Mike Kelley retrospective at New York’s PS1 Museum, I became fascinated watching a museum guard. Standing in a gallery filled with stuffed animals crammed together into satellite-like sculptures, I wondered what it must be like to spend your day working in such a curious environment.
Art is a conversation, and the images in The Museum Gaze captures the give and take in the dialog between the viewer and the artwork. The Museum Gaze offers a glimpse into the complex interplay between art, the viewer, staff and the museum itself.
Lawrence Lazare December 2023
Featured Artist
Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips is an independent photographer living in the mountains of southern New Mexico. His work is a humble but determined attempt to stand astride the divide between documentary tradition and contemporary art practice. He is frequently assisted and always inspired by his brilliant wife Seretha and by a desperate desire to gain the approval of an indifferent cat named Mouse.
New Mexico attracts creative souls like a magnet attracts loose screws, and it asks precious little in return. Just respect, really. Respect for the land, the quiet life, time's slow easy flow. And respect for other seekers, the ones who arrive and the ones who never left. That spirit is what brought me here and keeps me here, camera in hand. I’m a better man in New Mexico. I try to accept what it offers and see what it shows me, and I offer what I can in return.
Liminal State is a record of this journey—my humble explorations of this enchanted place, something akin to a state of grace, and of this delicate indelible art that I love.
Scott Gregory Phillips, November, 2022
