Sad Bird is my independent lens-based imprint.
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Perennial (MFA dummy Edition)
Images by Jeff Smudde, 2021 to 2023
Text by Walker Downey, 2023
61 plates, 108 pages, 11” x 11”
Printed by Edition One, Richmond, CA
Edition of 5
The Overpass
Images by Jeff Smudde, 2022
40 plates, 40 pages, 8.5” x 11”
This project is the first edition of a series which began with the overpass skatepark in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
I CAN HEAR THE ROAD CALL
Various photographers, curated and designed by Jeff Smudde, text by Jeff Smudde, published August 21, 2020
46 plates, 52 pages, 8.5” x 11”
The second submission-based zine by Sad Bird focuses on the theme of the road trip, how despite being typically treated as an American past-time, is not bound by political borders. The idea of the road trip has attracted photographers for generations, especially since the success of Robert Frank’s famous “The Americans,” and further pioneered in color photography by the likes of Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Joel Sternfeld, Joel Myerowitz, and many others.
Nothing is Interesting and Everything is Normal
Various photographers, curated and designed by Jeff Smudde, text by Jeff Smudde. Published November 12, 2019
118 plates, 124 pages, 8.5” x 11”
The first submission-based zine by Sad Bird, Nothing is Interesting and Everything is Normal is about the ordinary in many definitions. Photographers who submitted defined ordinary for themselves, and used photographs that exemplify their definition of ordinary. After all, once you put a frame around something ordinary, it suddenly becomes extra-ordinary.