Zach Lewis “A Dry Desert Soaking Up Rain, Soaking Up Sun”

Ed. Varie

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Ed. Varie present Book Launch and Photo Exhibition, A Dry Desert Soaking Up Rain, Soaking Up Sun, by Zach Lewis.

The series of work that comprises A Dry Desert Soaking Up Rain, Soaking Up Sun is the result Lewis’ exploration of a Texas landscape that became the backdrop for a series of murders that indelibly altered the American psyche and still haunts the city of Dallas more than ﬁfty years later. A mild fascination, alongside an examination of the setting of one of history’s most bizarre and tragic events–the assassination of President Kennedy, and subsequent murders of J.D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald– this series of work documents a landscape changed, and left unchanged by time.

Zach Lewis b. 1986 California is currently based in New York City. Lewis studied photography at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California, and has self-published photography books, J-Girl, There Are No Sins Here, and Summer Days. There Are No Sins Here was included in The Newsstand with Ed. Varie and is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In light of the travel ban to Cuba being lifted by Obama, Lewis has been working on an ongoing project, a survey of contemporary Cuban life, through multiple visits to Cuba. A Dry Desert Soaking Up Rain, Soaking Up Sun is Lewis’ most recent publication and location based photo-study project.

A Dry Desert Soaking Up Rain, Soaking Up Sun is 50 pages, full color, perfect bound, measuring 8.5 x 10 in. Printed in New York, edition of 100, available for sale at the reception. Each book will be signed by Lewis and includes a 4 x 6 color print. In addition to the release of the publication, a selection photographs will be on view at through to November 26th.