BLOW UP PRESS: Ackerman, Michael: Homesick New York Rather than documenting the city itself, Homesick New York turns toward an inner map of longing. The artist gravitates to individuals and spaces that carry the aura of dislocation, fragility, and quiet strength. Shot on analogue film using a variety of formats and processes, the photographs are imbued with a tactile richness and temporal softness that evoke fleeting memories — as though we are catching glimpses of something beloved that is already fading away. Diptychs, triptychs, and subtle sequences add rhythm to the narrative, revealing layers of meaning and emotion that unfold slowly, like a dream half remembered.
A distinct element of the book lies in its use of test strips — photographic leftovers from the printing process, left soaking for weeks in chemical solutions. Once dried, they bear marks of decay and transformation, ghostly echoes of the original image. In the book, reproductions of these spectral fragments are woven like relics of a memory in flux — imperfect, beautiful, and haunting — and each is carefully torn and glued in by hand after the printing process. In one of the collector’s editions, an original, signed strip is also included as an additional piece. en., offset print, hardcover leporello, 218p, 5.1 x 5.1 inch, Ed. of 1000, Warschau, 2025, Blow Up Press Request of availability backnext