Artists' Edition | When We Were Strangers

Named one of the best photo books of the year by Photo District News!

What does it mean to be queer and in love?

For eight years photographer Jake Naughton and his partner Juan Anibal Sosa Iglesias have tried to tease out the answer through a collaborative photography project. Their first book, When We Were Strangers, deftly examines the experience of loving another from the perspective of a couple deeply entrenched in their relationship.

In lush, lyrical images and raw prose in English and Spanish, Naughton and Sosa Iglesias seek to understand this journey they have embarked upon together. They weave together the sublime, the difficult and the everyday moments that comprise a relationship.

They are interested in the frayed edges, the messy intersections, the elements of oneself lost and new facets gained in the process, and the limits to all of that.

A collaboration in the deepest sense of the word, When We Were Strangers is the first part of a lifelong project deconstructing love through the prism of Naughton and Sosa Iglesias’s relationship. This first is a love poem, one that explores what happens when two people attempt to become something more and less than themselves.

The artists’ edition is available with an exclusive cover in a limited quantity of 100, each signed and numbered by the artists. All artist editions come with an archival pigment print of either “Branches” or
“Cherry Blossoms” on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm printed by Foco Lab in Mexico City.

Hardcover
160 pages
8.25″ x 5.75″
ISBN 978-1-941703-09-0