Interview on This Photography Life /  by Chris Suspect

Tbilisi History Museum, Tblisi, Georgia | © 2020 Chris Suspect

I recently had the opportunity to answer some great questions for Megan M Kwasniak's This Photography Life blog including what constitutes style in photography and whether identifying with a genre of photography is more limiting or liberating.

I met Megan at StreetFoto San Francisco and then again at The Miami Street Photography Festival (MSPF) last year. She was on the DC SPC street battle team against the Burn My Eye collective in Miami with her friend Sonia Goydenko, another awesome photographer. I admit because I saw some of their work in SF I knew I stacked the deck against Burn My Eye. I credit both of them for our win!

Oh and I only have 17 copies of Gratuity Included left for online sale! You can grab the last ones here.

Preorders for Gratuity Included are Live! /  by Chris Suspect

Big news! I am now taking pre-orders for my new book entitled Gratuity Included. 41 black and white photos from 2012 to 2019 spread out over 70 pages. All of these images are quite graphic and they are sequenced in a way that reminds one of a fever dream set in an underground nightscape!

The first edition is limited to 150 copies and features red film inserts that indicate new image sequences. It also comes with a red film book cover. Finding a printer that would handle these red film inserts was a real challenge. The next edition will not have this feature.

The images in this post shows you one of the images in Gratuity Included, and then how the image looks in the book. In this case what you see is how the red film insert looks when you flip it as a page. The last image in the set is the cover with the red film jacket.

I will be sharing more spreads and additional info this month. There is also a book release and exhibition planed for Fri. March 27 in Washington, D.C. More details coming soon.

In the mean time please support me in my quest to publish 4 books in one year and secure your copy of this limited edition one now.