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Entrance to Our Valley

Jenia Fridlyand
The story of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, transposed and reversed through Fridlyand’s view camera.
Standard Edition (3rd)
  • 26 cm x 40 cm
  • 80 pages, 37 tritone images
  • green foil stamped softbound cover
  • ISBN 9781943146352
Print Edition (3rd)
  • 26 cm x 40 cm
  • 80 pages, 37 tritone images
  • green foil stamped softbound cover
  • comes with an uneditioned 5x7 silver gelatin print
  • ISBN 9781943146352
Standard Edition (2nd)
  • 26 cm x 40 cm
  • 80 pages, 37 tritone images
  • silver foil stamped softbound cover
  • ISBN 9781943146154
Standard Edition (1st)
  • 26 cm x 40 cm
  • 80 pages, 37 tritone images
  • gold foil stamped softbound cover
  • ISBN 9781943146130
Special Edition available here.

Press

Lenscratch: Jenia Fridlyand: On Domestic Life

The Online Photographer: A Visit to Jenia's Farm (One Thing Leads to Another)

British Journal of Photography - Best of 2019 - Michael Mack

Photobooks of 2019: John Gossage

FotoRoom - Jenia Fridlyand Shares Poetic Photos of Family Life on Her Farm

Collector Daily

 

The Print Edition comes with an uneditioned 5x7 silver gelatin print from a selection of photographs made in the valley contemporaneously with those included in the book. The prints are made and signed by the artist.

Jenia Fridlyand uses a 4x5 view camera with flexibility and subtlety, rendering not only considered landscapes, but also domestic scenes of surprise and spontaneity. One senses ultimately the climate (literally and figuratively) of the valley in which her family is making a new home for itself. The simplest activities of housekeeping – eating and sleeping, planting and harvesting the garden, playing chess – are imbued with joy and gratitude in juxtapositions of interior and exterior life.

In 2017, Jenia Fridlyand created an artist’s book that sold out its limited run quickly and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Prize.

The trade edition of Entrance to Our Valley is now in its second printing.