Little Cities
Design for monograph on the cultural forces that shape a post-industrial Appalachia, by Rich-Joseph Facun.
Editorial / Publishing / Production
Rich-Joseph Facun is a photographer of Indigenous Mexican and Filipino descent, based in the Appalachian foothills of Southeast Ohio. His latest monograph, Little Cities, is a “visual meditation on how cultural forces shape our relationship to the landscape. It examines how both Indigenous peoples and descendants of settler colonialists inhabited and utilized the land around them.” Published by Little Oak.PRESS.
Rich-Joseph Facun is a photographer of Indigenous Mexican and Filipino descent, based in the Appalachian foothills of Southeast Ohio. His latest monograph, Little Cities, is a “visual meditation on how cultural forces shape our relationship to the landscape. It examines how both Indigenous peoples and descendants of settler colonialists inhabited and utilized the land around them.” Published by Little Oak.PRESS.
“Facun’s photographs grapple with the complexity of how things form and become what they are — one of life’s biggest mysteries. So while the location is Appalachia, the questions are somewhat universal — who are we? How did we become who we are? And why?”
—Kenneth Dickerman, The Washington Post
“Facun’s photographs grapple with the complexity of how things form and become what they are — one of life’s biggest mysteries. So while the location is Appalachia, the questions are somewhat universal — who are we? How did we become who we are? And why?”
—Kenneth Dickerman, The Washington Post
The cover of the publication features an embossed version of this map of Indian mounds and earthworks, courtesy of the Southeast Ohio History Center.
Thorowgood, by Commercial Classics, was selected for its historical representation of typographic styles present at the time that earthwork maps were produced.
The cover of the publication features an embossed version of this map of Indian mounds and earthworks, courtesy of the Southeast Ohio History Center.
Thorowgood, by Commercial Classics, was selected for its historical representation of typographic styles present at the time that earthwork maps were produced.
Little Oak.PRESS is an independent publisher based in Charlottesville, Virginia, run by photographer Matt Eich.
Printed on uncoated archival paper; hardcover, sewn binding, cloth square spine, black colored frey board.
Printed on uncoated archival paper; hardcover, sewn binding, cloth square spine, black colored frey board.
Credits:
Little Cities, Rich-Joseph Facun
59 color photographs
1 Vintage photograph
Essay by Rich-Joseph Facun
Hardcover, 7.5 x 9.25 inches
128 pages
First Edition of 500
Printed by ODDI in Slovenia
Published by Little Oak.PRESS
Photographs of the publication by Juan Aranda.