Spencer Ostrander
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Spencer Ostrander was born in Seattle in 1984 and has lived in New York City for the past two decades. He has done extensive work in all forms of photography and has recently completed two other book projects that will be published next year: Bloodbath Nation, with a long text on American gun violence by Paul Auster and Times Square in the Rain.
“These photographs, this story, they are hard to deal with, yet one goes back to the pages because we have the freedom to turn away from the tragedy, but the family and friends of Tyler Kobe Nichols do not. Their tributes are eloquent, as is the testimony in their faces. This is not black-on-black crime, this is the American way of death, as Ostrander’s haunting work so powerfully tells us.” —Darryl Pinckney, author of High Cotton and Black Deutschland
US Release: May 10, 2022 • UK Release: Apr 10, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781736309322 • 120 pages