Remember Me

A Photobook Case Study

Online Talk with Preston Gannaway

Thursday, December 1, 7PM EST

Free and open to the public

Registration required

Please join us for an online conversation about the making of Remember Me, by Preston Gannaway, to be published 2023 by GOST Books. 17 years in the making, Remember Me documents the family of Carolynne and Rich St. Pierre before and after Carolynne’s death from cancer. Depicting quiet and profound moments of an intimate family history, Gannaway was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2008 for Remember Me. In the years since Carolynne’s death, Gannaway has continued to photograph the youngest child, EJ, as he and his father live their lives without Carolynne. Gannaway writes about Remember Me, “While the first two years of the project chronicled what happened to a family facing terminal cancer, the work in the years since is more a meditation on ambiguous loss. . . . I’ve worked to make the project looser, more lyrical and more open to interpretation. I want the photos to belong to anyone’s experience.”

During our conversation with Preston Gannaway, we will discuss the challenges and rewards of working on long-form projects, how the experience of making Remember Me differs from her first book, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and design and production decisions made specifically for the book, Remember Me, among other topics.

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Click here to pre-order a copy of Remember Me.

Preston Gannaway’s photographs and artist books are held in private and public collections including the Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Duke University and Stanford University. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in venues around the world including the Everson Museum of Art, Griffin Museum of Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and San Francisco International Airport Museum. She was a Light Work Artist in Residence in 2018 and a Pollner Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana in 2019. In addition to long-form projects, she does commissions for publications and brands such as The New Yorker, WIRED, Airbnb and Rivian. She serves on the Board of Directors for Women Photograph.

For for information on the artist and her work, visit prestongannaway.com.

Mother’s Day #1, 2007, from Remember Me