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Freddie, Rory Mulligan’s debut monograph, is a body of black and white photographs that spans more than a decade of the artist’s work. Spurred on by the death of a childhood friend and unrequited first love, Mulligan turned to photography and towards home to unpack his personal history, relationships with other men and his own place in the canon of documentary photography.
Crystalline yet strange images of suburbia are punctuated by charged portraits and self-portraits resulting in a poetic, rhythmic rupture of traditional documentary narrative. Mulligan’s process of creating this work was deliberately paced, often stepping away from it for months or even years at a time to focus on other projects. He considers Freddie to be something beyond simply personal, it is a revelation of the artist and his navigation through loss and search for intimacy and self-affirmation.
Co-published with Matte Editions
Edited by Rory Mulligan, Matthew Leifheit and Kate Greene
Designed by Jordan Weitzman
Hardcover with belly band / 9.25 x 6.5 in. / 160 pages / 80 duo-tone images.
Thread-sewn pamphlet / 6 x 8 in. / 16 pages / text by Rory Mulligan
ISBN 978-1-7389013-7-1