SINKHOLES OF FLORIDA

SINKHOLES OF FLORIDA is a photobook by Kathleen Saunders (Charleston, SC). I curated, designed, bound, and released this book through my independent publishing house, Drum Machine Editions.

Cover design, typography, layout, finishing, binding, and product photography by Erik Pedersen.

Risograph printing by Woolly Press (Asheville, NC).

Kathleen Saunders (Charleston, SC) is a photographer who frequently returns to Florida's natural springs. Her work engages both the environmental precarity and history of kitschy tourism surrounding the state's once-pristine aquifers. She has interviewed local historians and retired mermaids and pored over dense water quality studies. In her riso-printed photobook, Sinkholes of Florida, Saunders distills this body of work into a deadpan collection of found images which oscillate between humor and dread.

PUBLICATION DATE: 19 December 2020
PAGES: 16
DIMENSIONS: 4.5”x9”
PROCESS: Risography
INK COLORS: black, bright red
PAPER: FPC Speckletone Madero Beach, 70# text
EDITION SIZE: 100

100% of the artist’s profit from this book is donated to 1000 Friends of Florida, a nonprofit dedicated to saving special places and building better communities across the state, including protecting Florida’s aquifers.