Hunger: Epilogue — Michael Ackerman, Second Edition
Hunger: Epilogue is a photobook by Michael Ackerman, published by Void as the closing volume of the publisher's Hunger series, which ran to seven issues across twenty-eight artists. It is Ackerman's first publication since Half Life (Delpire, 2010), drawing together photographs from his debut project End Time City alongside material that had not previously been published. The book is printed on newspaper paper in an edition of 1800 copies, measuring 22 × 32 cm across 64 pages, including three oversized fold-outs and more than 130 photographs.
About the Work
Ackerman's images work through blur, abrasion, and a consistent closeness to the subject rather than documentary distance. The sequence moves between his earliest work and photographs held back until this volume, forming what reads less as a chronological record than as an accumulation of related images across time. A text by filmmaker Jem Cohen, a longtime friend of Ackerman's, runs alongside the photographs. It offers an insider's account of the artist rather than an explanation of the work — a separate register placed next to the images rather than over them.
Second Edition
This second edition revises the now sold-out first printing of Hunger: Epilogue. It introduces previously unpublished photographs and a new sequence, and reduces the format from the first edition's broadsheet dimensions to the current 22 × 32 cm. The underlying character of the book — newsprint stock, oversized fold-outs, dense picture sequencing — carries through from the original edition.
Publisher
Void Photo is a publisher with a sustained focus on photography and artist publications, and the Hunger series represents one of its longest-running editorial commitments. Michael Ackerman's photographic practice, shaped by his early work on End Time City and continued through Fiction and Half Life, aligns with Void's production approach: rough newsprint, oversized fold-outs, and constrained print runs suited to the abrasive, unresolved quality of his images.
This title is part of the Photobooks catalogue at Lokator100.
