Geography

First edition, 1,500 copies
Hardcover
304 pages
135 color and 28 B&W photographs
Dimensions: 490 × 315 mm

“There’s a little bit of sex, motherhood, and ruin...”
— From the text by Gaby Cepeda

Dashwood is proud to announce the publication of Geography, the first monograph by Brooklyn-born artist and photographer Zora Sicher.

Sicher is known for her work exploring the boundaries between photography and film, with an unflinching focus on the uncensored human body. She often investigates themes of identity, diversity, and the intersection of ancient and modern photographic processes. Sicher previously co-authored Treasure with Paloma Elsesser, which documented the model’s breast surgeries.

In Geography, she draws upon her personal archives from 2011 to the present day, photographing her inner circle of friends. The opening lines of the introductory text by art critic and independent curator Gaby Cepeda speak to the ephemeral quality of her photographs and the simple yet lofty goal of this body of work.

“Is it possible to get rid of oneself? Can we materialize our own experience, conveniently frame it in a neat (or slightly messy) snapshot and pour into it our most embodied memories, so we can stash them away, putting a final, pretty bow on the closed box that is the gift of our own past?”

Sicher’s main concern seems to be the human condition, explored from her own very personal perspective through the relationships around her, in order to encapsulate the nature of her practice.

“The intimacy of her work and her way of being with the people and places she photographs can feel interchangeable with the kind that is made between people making love... sex can mean a million different things but the kind that I mean is the kind that says, ‘you can look at me, I’ll look back.’”
— From the essay by Tiger Hutchence-Archer

There will be an exhibition by Zora Sicher, curated by Philo Cohen, at Dashwood Projects, 63 East 4th Street, New York, in October 2025.

Designed by Paris-based designer, filmmaker, and publisher Manon Lutanie, with texts by Gaby Cepeda and Tiger Hutchence-Archer.