Nat Segebre | segebren@gmail.com | natashasegebre.com
Hi Sarah and Lewis,
My name is Nat (they/them) and I’m an analog photographer and writer based in Brooklyn / South Florida. For the past two years, I’ve been working on a longterm documentary photo project on Coney Island. This past summer I’ve gone almost every Saturday, and I’m incredibly dedicated to this project. The goal for this body of work has always been to exist in book form. The project is entirely shot on film and printed by me in the darkroom. (Apart from images shot on slide film which can’t be darkroom printed.) This portfolio consists of darkroom prints that I made specifically to give to you.
While this project is still in progress (and I’d say needs another 6 months to a year of reflecting, writing and piecing together before it’s ready to be designed into a book), I wanted to introduce myself and the project to you both by giving you some of my prints and a preview of the project.
I deeply admire the work you both do at Loose Joints, both as a publishing house and a design studio especially. Photo books can often fall into the trap of being predictable and boring, and I first became inspired by design and the art of a carefully designed art book from a class I took with Yolanda Cuomo at NYU. Your work calls to everything I learned from Yolanda, and after taking her class, I knew finding the right designer and publisher for my future books was crucial. I love how each of the Loose Joints books is unique and individual to the work it is encompassing, and the passion you both have for artist books is so obvious in your work. I love how you make special editions of certain books with darkroom prints too! You guys and Loose Joints are my dream publisher and designers for this project, and I know you would design it into something so beautiful. I think my work fits in well with Loose Joint’s existing titles and I hope seeing an excerpt of my work inspires you guys!
Thank you for your time! I’m also including an excerpt of some writing I’ve done for the project, as I certainly see this book as containing my photographs and writing together. The selected work here shows only a small portion of this project (a lot of these are shot at dusk for example), but the project is much more diverse and I hope you check out the rest on my website. I’d also love to show you more of the prints in person if that is of interest. The originals are 12x14in!
Thanks again. I look forward to working together!
- Nat
Scan of my darkroom notebook