Mara Catalán’s photobook “Williamsburg, A Place I Once Called Home” Red Hook Editions, RPS exclusive (20 copies only)

One of the participants of the 2015 Photobook as an object workshop, Mara Catalan photobook “Williamsburg, A Place I Once Called Home”  in commemoration of publication by Red Hook Editions, a publisher of Brooklyn We start handling with 20 RPS exclusive copies with the complimentary poster, she made them very special edition numbered and signed.

Mara Catalán’s first monograph, Williamsburg, A Place I Once Called Home, is a coming-of-age story of a Spanish immigrant who moved to New York in 1990 and stayed. Living in Manhattan from day to day, with little money and no concrete plan, Mara eventually found a cheap place to live and people who cared for her in Williamsburg, an industrial neighborhood in decline, across the bridge in Brooklyn.

Williamsburg, A Place I Once Called Home is Mara’s personal record of her life there between the years of 1994 and 1996. With a distinctive style, she beautifully weaves B&W urban landscapes, intimate portraits, and lyrical street scenes with stories, personal letters, and diary entries in both Spanish and English.

The book is at once a wonderful record of a particular epoch and a historical archive of many places in Williamsburg which have either radically changed or cease to exist. It’s a window into the life of a woman strongly connected to her changing and expanding world, and also very much tied to where she comes from. More than two decades later Mara continues to live in Williamsburg, a reluctant witness to the massive transformation and the disappearance of familiar places and faces. This book is her ode to what it once was, a place she once called home.

©︎Mara Catalán / Williamsburg, A Place I Once Called Home / The complimentary poster with an edition numbered and signed 20 copies only

©︎Mara Catalán / Williamsburg, A Place I Once Called Home / The complimentary poster with an edition numbered and signed 20 copies only

©︎Mara Catalán / Williamsburg, A Place I Once Called Home / The complimentary poster with an edition numbered and signed 20 copies only

156 pages
210 x 297mm
Language: Spanish and English
Hardback with dust jacket
Publisher: Red Hook Editions
Print run: 750 copies
ISBN：978-1-941703-07-6
Price 60$ plus shipping
Price of 250$ – Limited Edition of 50 with a choice of one 8”x10″ archival gelatin silver print -Signed edition.
RPS Special: Edition of 20 complimentary poster
The art direction in collaboration With Yumi Goto and Jan Rosseel. Cover, Insert and Design for Production by Bonnie Briant
The book will be shipped from the author, it may take 10-14 days, sometime it might be arrived earlier or later.

Mara Catalán is a documentary photographer and a fine art B&W printer.
Born in Madrid, Mara moved to New York in 1990 where she worked as a freelance photographer and apprenticed as a darkroom technician with Gar Lillardat Lab One.
Between the years 1995 and1997, she lived mostly in Mexico, working in the photography archives of the Na-Bolom Museum in San Cristobal de Las Casas, and extensively photographing the Zapatista resistance in the area.
In 1997 she took a job in the darkroom at Magnum Photos in New York.
In 2000 she set up her own B&W darkroom and studio in Bushwick – Studio 304 – and continues to work as a photographer and printer until today.