This was my grandfather’s “dinner bucket” from the coal mines. He worked for Eastern Coal Company in Pike County, Kentucky for 41 years. He passed away in 1990 from a number of illnesses, one of which was black lung. My father gave it to me on June 26, 2010. I can’t really put into words what it means for me to have it. I was 15 when my grandfather passed away. I didn’t really understand then how the work he did mattered so much to my family, to this country. He’s been gone a long time, but now I have a physical reminder of him and the work he did.

Phillip Toledano, Days With My Father
PQ Blackwell, 2010
Hardcover | 92 pages | $13.57 (+$3.99 shipping) | Amazon.com
A breathtakingly beautiful visual journal. I highly recommend this book. Here’s a video interview with Mr. Toledano on CNN.com.

GET OFF MY LAWN – Issue 1 (SOLD OUT)
Geoffrey Ellis, Noah Beil, Grant Ernhart, Alan W George, Liz Kuball, Sarah Lacy, Ian Lemmonds, Jennifer Loeber, Dalton Rooney, Andrew Martin Scott, and Justin Visnesky
Photo-zine | 48 pages | $10 (+$1.73 shipping) | sadkids.blogspot.com

Get Off My Lawn is a 48-page photo-zine, edited and published by Geoffrey Ellis. The zine features the work of eleven photographers who are 34 years and older. Get Off My Lawn is a tongue-in-cheek response to the calls for entry, contests and publications that require “emerging photographers” to be somewhere between the ages of 18 and 34. The zine showcases photographers who are working just as hard as those in the 18-34 range to produce great work. We can no longer be in your club, but soon enough, you’ll be in ours…

You may recall my post here about Daniel Shea’s print sale and the great opportunity to support his work. I ordered an 8×10 print of “Afternoon Laundry” from his 2007 series entitled Removing Mountains. You can follow the project on his blog, Digressions, and if you can, pick up a print to support his project while the sale is on.