{"title":"Pia-Paulina Guilmoth","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth photography — books and editions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth is a Maine-based photographer whose work stays close to place and lived time: rural surroundings, friends, small rituals, and the edge between vulnerability and control. The images are built through patience and slow, analog methods rather than quick reportage — sequences that accumulate meaning across a body of work rather than within a single frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eApproach\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuilmoth's practice moves between rural landscape and community portraiture, nocturnal work, and carefully staged elements. The resulting photographs resist easy categorisation: they are neither documentary nor fully constructed, but occupy a measured space between the two. Quiet sequences built around everyday conditions define the pace of her books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/em\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Explore all Stanley\/Barker titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e, is among her known photobooks and represents the kind of considered, independently produced work that defines her output. Guilmoth received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2022 and the Creator Labs Photo Fund award in 2024 — factual markers of sustained institutional recognition within contemporary photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRelated collections\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection sits within the broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse all photography books and photobooks at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100. Those drawn to Guilmoth's analog, atmospheric approach may also find relevant work in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dylan-hausthor\" title=\"Browse Dylan Hausthor photobooks and editions at Lokator100\"\u003eDylan Hausthor\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\" title=\"Discover Void Photo publications available at Lokator100\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEditions listed here are in stock and dispatched from Germany. Orders are packed carefully and sent with tracked shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"flowers-drink-the-river-pia-paulina-guilmoth","title":"Flowers Drink the River – Pia-Paulina Guilmoth","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"View all Pia-Paulina Guilmoth titles at Lokator100\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e. Shot on a large format camera using analogue methods, the project documents forests, rivers, and fields in rural Maine — treating landscape not as backdrop but as active participant in the image-making process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work spans the first two years of Guilmoth's gender transition. It records a small working-class community with attention to the textures of visibility, risk, and proximity. Nocturnal scenes predominate: flash-lit, often hazy, marked by optical aberrations that register duration and the particular quality of night. Moths, wet ground, spider silk, and improvised rituals appear alongside documentary moments and staged gestures. The book is direct about the body and sexuality, and includes explicit scenes. It describes its subject as it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA central aspect of Guilmoth's process is duration. Small sculptures are assembled from natural materials, then left for the environment to alter — the final image shaped as much by weather, insects, and chance as by the photographer's intent. This patience is structural to the work, not incidental to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is 3\/4 + Swiss bound, 30 × 24 cm, and includes a tipped-in facsimile 4×5\" contact print along with a fabric tip-on nameplate. It sits within Lokator100's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our photography and photobook catalogue\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue as a considered example of the artist photobook form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMore by this artist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire\" title=\"Fishworm – another publication featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth\"\u003eFishworm\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"Sleep Creek – a publication featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth\"\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/a\u003e are two further publications featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51594719396186,"sku":"9781913288761","price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/pink-cover-spiderweb-motif.jpg?v=1779285025"},{"product_id":"sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth","title":"Sleep Creek – Dylan Hausthor \u0026 Pia Paulina Guilmoth","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSleep Creek — Collaborative Photobook by Dylan Hausthor and Pia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaborative photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dylan-hausthor\"\u003eDylan Hausthor\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, made entirely in the backwoods of New England. Working across portraits, animals, gestures, and landscape, the two artists construct a world in which documentary observation and staged construction are held in deliberate, unresolved tension. The sequence does not move toward a single conclusion; it circles back through the same terrain, the same figures, and the same uncertain light until place itself becomes the central subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's visual logic is nocturnal and accumulative. Smoke, skin, fur, mud, and water are registered with the same granular attention, refusing a hierarchy between the human and the nonhuman, the witnessed and the arranged. Colonial histories, rural labour, and intimate bodies share the frame without explanation or resolution. The boundary between fact and fiction is not blurred carelessly — it is held open as a structural condition of the work, inseparable from how the artists describe their experience of the world: without clear beginnings, middles, or ends, and without a hard line between the lived and the directed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHausthor and Guilmoth are co-founders of Wilt Press, a publication studio concerned with the myth of place and the complexity of image-based narrative. \u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to a sustained practice of long-term engagement with the Northeastern United States — a region they chose not to represent as a regional identity but to use as a stage for ideas of story, character, and memory that exceed any specific geography. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\"\u003eVoid\u003c\/a\u003e, this is the 2nd Print edition of 2000 copies, in a foiled open-spine softcover format, 17 × 21.5 cm, 144 pages, ISBN 978-618-5479-06-0. Collectors and readers working through the current field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e will find in this edition a considered entry point into a rigorous and sustained collaborative practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52802513797466,"sku":"9786185479060","price":52.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sleep-creek-front-cover-goat.jpg?v=1778011583"},{"product_id":"fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire","title":"Fishworm — Pia Paulina Guilmoth \u0026 Jesse Bull Saffire","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFishworm — a Xerox-based photobook from central Maine\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFishworm does not organise rural memory into something clean or stable. The book keeps its material close to its damaged state: mould, runoff, cheap toner, torn edges, ghostly snapshots, local reports, discarded magazines, animals, children, junk, weather. What survives here survives in pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"Browse all titles by Pia Paulina Guilmoth at Lokator100\"\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e and Jesse Bull Saffire do not present central Maine as document or nostalgia, but as a place sifted through by hand — inhabited, distrusted, and reassembled. The Xerox texture is not incidental. It refuses refinement. Instead of restoration, the Fishworm photobook works through abrasion, clutter, and stubborn attachment, until debris begins to read like a social history that never intended to become an archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe source material is scavenged: family archive photographs, found imagery, rural ephemera. Guilmoth draws on the same territory she has worked across her practice — queer life in rural Maine, the unstable boundary between tenderness and threat, the way place accumulates and erodes simultaneously. Her book \u003cem\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/em\u003e reached the shortlist of the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, and Fishworm extends that inquiry into more abrasive, collaborative terrain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesse Bull Saffire's role in the book is not decorative. She describes herself as a community organiser rather than an artist, and that position shapes what the book is. Fishworm is not built from aesthetic distance. It comes from shared life, local knowledge, scavenging, and a practiced closeness to the social and material remains of a place. The collaboration is structural, not supplementary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\" title=\"Browse all Void publications available at Lokator100\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e in 2025, the Fishworm photobook is part of a broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue that takes the form and production of the book seriously as a critical choice. The softcover with poster dust jacket, the Xerox-based printing, the 232-page count — none of these are incidental. They are the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53008450945370,"sku":"9786185479466","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/fishworm-front-cover.jpg?v=1778496641"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}