Join us at Printed Matter Chelsea for the launch of LOST IV, a ten book box set from +KGP. LOST IV showcases the works of ten photographic artists exploring themes such as gender, class, racism, and contemporary culture. Each individual book project delves into the evolving American terrain and the concept of individual empowerment. The box set features artists spanning from emerging talents to established figures.

LOST IV collaborating artists will briefly discuss their projects, as well as sign copies of their monographs throughout the evening.

BOOK SIGNINGS
Los Angeles Without Boundaries by Peter Baker @peterbaker42
Tell Me About Saigon by Tracy Dong @tracytdong
Anthem by Oji Haynes @ojihaynes
Monument by Yoav Horesh @yoav.horesh
ShangriLa: The Book of Skin by Melody Melamed @melodymelamedfoto
Breathless by Richard Renaldi @renaldiphotos

Peter Baker is a photographer from The Bronx, New York. He received a BA in Literature & Photography from SUNY Purchase in 2005, and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. He has designed and taught courses at the International Center of Photography in New York and has been a contributing writer for American Suburb X and Der Greif. His commissioned work has been published in The New York Times & Architectural Digest. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Tracy Dong (b. Vancouver, Canada) is a Vietnamese-Canadian artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Dong focuses on evaluating the vulnerabilities, complexities, melody, and motion of the human condition, with an emphasis on representing the Asian diaspora experience and LGBTQIA+ communities. For her, the camera is a way of finding order in complex situations, using a painterly eye to light, color, shape and line to convey their underlying mood and atmosphere. She seeks a deep, emotional connection with her subjects, finding intimate spaces and encounters amidst the chaos of the everyday.

Oji Haynes (b.1999) is a cultural practitioner with a focus in the photographic medium. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has been awarded the CCNY Dean’s Prize in Art as well as a recipient of the 2022 NADA Miracle Seltzer Grant prize. Haynes has also participated in the New York Times Portfolio Review and has been shortlisted for the annual Palm Photo Prize which allowed his work to be included in a group show at 1014 gallery in London.

Yoav Horesh has exhibited internationally in galleries and museums in Germany, Italy, Israel, the United States, Sweden, Russia, Hong Kong, Myanmar and Peru. Yoav’s work has been featured by Amnesty International, as well as in magazines, art journals, and websites across three continents. He has given public lectures and artists talks in art schools, universities, and galleries in The United States, Israel, China and Europe.

Melody Melamed received her BFA from UCLA in 2008, with a concentration in Design and Media Arts, followed by an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media in 2013, at SVA, New York City. As a photographer, Melamed has dedicated her time to exploring the perception of gender identity, sexuality, the duality of masculinity vs. femininity, and what the body cannot tell about the expression of gender and gender identity.

Richard Renaldi was born in Chicago in 1968. He received a BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. He is represented by Benrubi Gallery in New York and Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin. Five monographs of his work have been published, including Richard Renaldi: Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006); Fall River Boys (Charles Lane Press, 2009); Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014); Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016); I Want Your Love (Super Labo, 2018). He was the recipient of a 2015 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.