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Launched in March 2025, in collaboration with Session Press and Dashwood Books. Run by Miwa Susuda with photographers Anh Nguyen, James Maher, and John Sypal, this new initiative will feature artist interviews, peer discussions, and exhibition reviews, offering fresh perspectives on photobooks and photography exhibitions in NYC and Tokyo.

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“TOKYO MALE ART FAIR 2025 Report: At the Intersection of Male Representation and Diversity"

Session Press May 22, 2025 10:41 pm

For our third YouTube episode, Dylan Hausthor and Elle Pérez discuss Hausthor’s debut book, What the Rain Might Bring, alongside a selection of key works featured in the publication. Their conversation offers a casual yet thoughtful look at Hausthor’s artistic evolution and creative process.
In addition, Jalen and Miwa introduce two photobooks by legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki: Midori and Kaori thought the looking class: photo-mad old man A 2015.5.25 75the birthday.

Dylan Hausthor:
Dylan Hausthor (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist based on an island off the coast of Maine. Their work explores the intersections of storytelling, mythmaking, and the natural world through photography, video, writing, and installation. Hausthor received their BFA from the Maine College of Art and MFA from the Yale School of Art. They are a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and have been recognized with numerous accolades, including the Nancy Graves Fellowship, a Light Work residency, and the Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer’s Fund. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the permanent collection of MoMA. In addition to their artistic practice, Hausthor teaches ghost hunting, ritual, photography, and mushroom foraging.

"What the Rain Might Bring”:
Inspired by David Arora’s mushroom guide, Dylan Hausthor’s What the Rain Might Bring is a haunting visual meditation on storytelling, folklore, and the queerness of nature. Through large-format black-and-white photographs, Hausthor captures a world where humans, animals, and landscapes blend in scenes of pagan ritual, mysticism, and quiet upheaval.
The imagery—owls, spiders, towering mushrooms, and spectral figures—suggests a fragile human presence overshadowed by the natural world. Central to Hausthor’s work is the tension between truth and fiction, with photography used as a tool for mythmaking, disinformation, and performance.
Structured around seven gatefolds marking nightly visits from a moth, the book becomes a ritual object—both intimate and enigmatic—inviting the viewer into a space where fact and fable dissolve.


"What the Rain Might Bring"
Dylan Hausthor
Published by TBW, 2024
Casebound flexicover with printed edges and spine
144 pages (with 7 gatefolds), 72 duotone plates
8 x 10 in / 203 x 254 mm
2024
ISBN 978-1-942953-66-1

SPPC Favorite Book of The Month:

Nobuyoshi Araki
“Midori and Kaori thought the looking class: photo-mad old man A 2015.5.25 75the birthday”
Published by Taka Ishii Gallery 
2015
softcover 352 pages185 x 128 mmcolor, black and whitelimited edition of 500 copies
Nobuyoshi Araki
"Midori"
Tanki Sha, 1982

Location:
Dashwood Books
33 Bond Street, NYC 10012
dashwood_books

Special thank you David Strettell at Dashwood Books

Thumbnail Photo by Jalen Salmon 

"What the Rain Might Bring" is available thru Dashwood Books 29:25

For our third YouTube episode, Dylan Hausthor and Elle Pérez discuss Hausthor’s debut book, What the Rain Might Bring, alongside a selection of key works featured in the publication. Their conversation offers a casual yet thoughtful look at Hausthor’s artistic evolution and creative process.
In addition, Jalen and Miwa introduce two photobooks by legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki: Midori and Kaori thought the looking class: photo-mad old man A 2015.5.25 75the birthday.

Dylan Hausthor:
Dylan Hausthor (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist based on an island off the coast of Maine. Their work explores the intersections of storytelling, mythmaking, and the natural world through photography, video, writing, and installation. Hausthor received their BFA from the Maine College of Art and MFA from the Yale School of Art. They are a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and have been recognized with numerous accolades, including the Nancy Graves Fellowship, a Light Work residency, and the Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer’s Fund. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the permanent collection of MoMA. In addition to their artistic practice, Hausthor teaches ghost hunting, ritual, photography, and mushroom foraging.

"What the Rain Might Bring”:
Inspired by David Arora’s mushroom guide, Dylan Hausthor’s What the Rain Might Bring is a haunting visual meditation on storytelling, folklore, and the queerness of nature. Through large-format black-and-white photographs, Hausthor captures a world where humans, animals, and landscapes blend in scenes of pagan ritual, mysticism, and quiet upheaval.
The imagery—owls, spiders, towering mushrooms, and spectral figures—suggests a fragile human presence overshadowed by the natural world. Central to Hausthor’s work is the tension between truth and fiction, with photography used as a tool for mythmaking, disinformation, and performance.
Structured around seven gatefolds marking nightly visits from a moth, the book becomes a ritual object—both intimate and enigmatic—inviting the viewer into a space where fact and fable dissolve.


"What the Rain Might Bring"
Dylan Hausthor
Published by TBW, 2024
Casebound flexicover with printed edges and spine
144 pages (with 7 gatefolds), 72 duotone plates
8 x 10 in / 203 x 254 mm
2024
ISBN 978-1-942953-66-1

SPPC Favorite Book of The Month:

Nobuyoshi Araki
“Midori and Kaori thought the looking class: photo-mad old man A 2015.5.25 75the birthday”
Published by Taka Ishii Gallery
2015
softcover 352 pages185 x 128 mmcolor, black and whitelimited edition of 500 copies
Nobuyoshi Araki
"Midori"
Tanki Sha, 1982

Location:
Dashwood Books
33 Bond Street, NYC 10012
dashwood_books

Special thank you David Strettell at Dashwood Books

Thumbnail Photo by Jalen Salmon

"What the Rain Might Bring" is available thru Dashwood Books

YouTube Video VVVVUTJnZ21yX2pxd1JHRTB0UzhoNkhnLnJMRHE3RVR1YWpB

Session Press Photobook Club Ep. 3: Dylan Hausthor x Elle Pérez

Session Press May 8, 2025 11:09 am

Stacy Kranitz and Chris Verene The Safety Net exhibition April 3-May 10. Interview by James Maher

Session Press April 11, 2025 7:22 am


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