Please RSVP HERE to celebrate Long Live King Kobe with ZE Books and The Long Live King Kobe Foundation at our official book launch! Free entry. All book proceeds will be donated to The Long Live King Kobe Foundation.

This book is an intimate portrait of grief, a chronicle that charts the devastation visited upon a large, multi-generational family in the wake of the senseless, random murder of twenty-one-year-old Tyler Kobe Nichols on December 23, 2020.

With the cooperation and full participation of the Nichols-Chambers family, photographer Spencer Ostrander was granted privileged access to the household. Over the course of the next several months, he conducted one-on-one interviews with each member of that household along with Tyler’s closest friends and, in the natural light of those settings, compiled a large dossier of photographic portraits of each person involved in the story.

The result is an astonishing ensemble of pictures and words that pierces through the cold statistics we use to talk about the wave of street violence spreading across the country to focus on one person, one family, one lost life, and transform the numbers into vivid, aching human reality. The authors have entitled the book Long Live King Kobe in honor of the foundation that has been set up by Tyler Nichols’s mother, Sherma Chambers, whose mission is to combat street violence with compassionate, peaceful initiatives and to offer support to the families of victims.