Immaterial Books

09/03/2026

“Truth still exists. It arrives broken into fragments, each one tailored to its audience.”

The Future of 2028 begins with a simple prompt: predict what 2028 will be like—and write it as a manifesto.

Written by AI and transformed through the graphic language of Leafy Yun Ye葉韻 and Two Pants, the result is both prediction and artifact: a fragmented vision of a future that feels increasingly close.

Published by Two Pants in collaboration with Immaterial Books.

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08/19/2026

A momentary recording of contemporary living.

In A Dead Tree in Our Yard, A Vibrant One on the Highway, Brandon Ichiro Tani brings together fragments, encounters, and micro-narratives to form an impossible present—one shaped by proximity and distance, acceleration and memory, the sacred and the routine.

Published by Two Pants Two Pants in collaboration with Immaterial Books. Designed by Leafy Yun Ye. Leafy Yun Ye葉韻

Available now—link in bio.

Image: Brandon Ichiro Tani

08/18/2026

Immaterial Voices returns for Season Two.

In our opening episode, Brooke C. White joins us to consider whose stories are ours to tell—and how photographs, archives, and inherited memories can speak across generations.

What does an archive preserve? What does it leave unresolved? And what happens when we reimagine what it remembers?

Listen: https://rss.com/podcasts/immaterial-voices/3038554/

07/22/2026

Across the Illinois landscape, utility poles and power lines become a kind of drawing. Marking distance, connection, and the movement from one horizon to another. “Primary Wires” by Ryan Searl follows the quiet rhythm of this everyday infrastructure.

07/20/2026

“What She Saw” asks what can be recovered from the fragments women leave behind. Through inherited photographs, journals, drawings, and travel logs, Brooke White reimagines the family archive as more than a record of the past. It becomes a site of inquiry, resistance, and reconstruction — a way to make visible the complexities of queerness, womanhood, motherhood, travel, and photography.

07/10/2026

"In Plain Sight" is now open for submissions.

Presented by Immaterial Gallery, a project of Immaterial Books, the 2026 exhibition continues a series rooted in Central Illinois photography and visual culture. Now in its third edition, the series is expanding the call to photographers working across the broader Midwest, inviting projects that look closely at place, region, and everyday visual experience.

Curated by Tim Hale, "In Plain Sight" asks how photography can help us see what is often overlooked or taken for granted: ordinary streets, familiar landscapes, storefronts, interiors, fields, roads, thresholds, signs, routines, and quiet traces of the past embedded in the present.

Selected works will be exhibited at Analog W**e Bar in Urbana, Illinois, from Dec 5, 2026 – Jan 5, 2027. Three selected projects will also be developed into small-format Field of Vision zines.

Alongside the exhibition, In Plain Sight will include public programming designed to build community around photography, place, and publication, including a Field of Vision Meet-Up with artist talks and informal work-sharing, and an In Plain Sight Photo Walk + Bar Crawl through Urbana/Champaign.

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2026
Submission Fee: $25

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06/24/2026

“Like a short poem that leaves you enthralled, Urbana Americana shows how far you can go with a slender zine format done right. With its 17 photographs and 7 journal entries it is a humble publication that punches way above its weight. There are hefty photo-tomes with five times as many images that do not do half as much.”

Review by Hans Hickerson, Editor of the PhotoBook Journal, is a photographer and photobook artist from Portland, Oregon.

06/03/2026

Thanks for the review! "With its 17 photographs and 7 journal entries, it is a humble publication that punches way above its weight. There are hefty photo-tomes with five times as many images that do not do half as much."

Review by Hans Hickerson · A contemporary trend in photobooks is to be clever and mix in various and sundry subjects in an attempt to add meaning and depth. Sometimes this works, but often it doesn…

05/19/2026

A beautiful weekend at the 2026 ICP Photobook Fest 2026.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Immaterial Books table, joined the launches for What She Saw by Brooke White and Where The Spirits Got Stuck by Claire Daly, picked up books, and shared conversations with us throughout the fair.

We’re grateful to the International Center of Photography and the wider photobook community for such an inspiring weekend in New York. 🖤

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05/14/2026

Thanks so much to everyone for visiting us at Printed Matter LA . Table B21 was a flurry of activity and we are so happy to have had great conversations with all the book and photo lovers out there. It was a privilege to be included among so many great publishers and artists from around the world. Stay tuned for more book releases this year and more events, as well as more podcast episodes, which you can find on Spotify and Apple Podcasts by searching for