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Minor Matters is a publishing platform for contemporary art, bringing books into being in collaboration with our audience. http://minormattersbooks.com/

We publish work that articulates the surface of life. We focus on work that articulates the surface of life, bringing insight and cadence to the worlds we occupy.

16/11/2025

Spending time today with ’s weighty first book, Every Object Has A Ritual. Excerpt from her opening text:

“These were not just ridiculous imitations of sacred ceremonial elements. They were artifacts themselves, objects of a culture that can’t seem to stop flattening Indigenous identities. I had been given a ritual.”

Kearney began this work as part of her thesis at ; we saw it again while we and Selena were participating in the online reviews in 2022. The book released in conjunction with a solo exhibition at .gallery in Seattle in 2023. Selena Kearney completed an MFA through earlier this year.

In 2024 we fulfilled a second major goal with this publication (the first goal being its existence). With the research support of we sent books across the US to K-12 schools still bearing Native mascots.

This book reminds us that we have choices to make in how we respond to our lived experiences. A valuable reminder.

09/11/2025

Saying hello, and thanks for thinking of us as a source for your holiday gifts…🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

21/10/2025

Momentous day, today.

Over two dozen photographs, books, press proofs and production samples were delivered to the to form the Stevan A. Baron Photo/Book Collection.

Steve’s work in production at from 1963-2003 was significant for many reasons. This collection includes photographs and books by Paul Strand, and Aperture co-founders Dorothea Lange and Minor White; ; maggie steber; ; robert Adams, Sally Mann, , , , Aperture/Minor Matters authors and , and Minor Matters authors , , , and Paul Berger.

It will also note editors, designers like Peter Bradford, , .gorman.reiner.design, Wendy Byrne, and separators & printers who added brilliance to books they took part in.

This gift and teaching tool marks a beginning in further research around the making and dissemination of 20th-and early 21st-century photography books. 💚

More to come on this front. In the meantime thanks to those who have supported this journey, incl but not limited to Caryl Baron, Ken & Debbie Baron, , Christine Hult-Lewis, , , , , , and all the inspiring artists.

We’ve come a long way from those crates showing up two years ago….🔥🔥🔥

And Happy Diwali!

first 📸 by 🙏🏾💚🙏🏾

08/10/2025

Thank you seward park, , .peterson.photographer and everyone who took the time to join us for our first reading! Good questions, and special thanks to the person in the crowd who reminded us, well, to begin at the beginning with the photography book that preceded We’re All Pros Here. 🤩 Super valuable feedback, we hope there will be future opportunities to demonstrate that we learned from you.

Great to see both books on the signing table and going out the door, that keeps the ecosystem going 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

29/09/2025

Our first official reading & signing of We’re All Pros Here, next Tuesday eve at !

(we had a great warm up act at this summer….we just didn’t have books yet!).

SEATTLE /TACOMA and the environs around & between, please join us, .peterson.photographer and next Tuesday at in Seward Park for what will be a hilarious & informative DIVE into the creative & publishing process, through the making of Charles Peterson’s Nirvana.

FREE, RSVP requested from link (you know where) so the lovely bookstore staff has a sense of how many chairs are needed.

Complex times are better in community. Come as you are. let’s hang out and talk about making books together.

17/09/2025

Thank you and .gallery.seattle for inviting us into a conversation on Art & Activism Saturday, September 27, 4-6 pm for !

We look forward to sharing our philosophies and our (many) publications related to this timely topic.

11/09/2025

From ’s series Stepping Through The Ashes, 2001. In Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography (Minor Matters, 2021)

01/09/2025

That’s a wrap….today was the last experience of .peterson.photographer’s Nirvana at , and the last day of a beautiful, accessible presentation of every Minor Matters book published over the last twelve years as part of this exhibit.

Lots to reflect on from these months of conversations & programs, visits & viewings. With TAM we’re continuing outreach to share this exhibition with audiences in other regions….stay tuned.

Huge thanks to those in the exhibition: Charles, (the spirit of) Barbara Morgan, Paul Berger, , , , and An-My Lê.

Thanks to those guys from Aberdeen & the global audience that loves them.

Thanks to TAM, incl .ito , , and beloved Visitor Services who gave the prints love & protection throughout this last year.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to see this exhibition. 🙏🏾💚🙏🏾You complete the work.

21/08/2025

Happy Thursday….thinking about time. 💗💚💗

Books. Exhibitions.

Community. Thanks for being in ours.

07/08/2025

When it rains, it POURS!

We’re All Pros Here has also arrived (Nora’s competing with .peterson.photographer ‘s dog Charlotte, we think, for ambassador on this one….though Charlotte gets the one-up with a cameo in the book).

TWO books releasing in the days of summer, especially these days, is a miracle and a gift….🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 to all those who are making books with us. Thank you. And CONGRATS on what we’re making together. 💗💗💗

18/07/2025

Our friends at showing the love for Minor Matters 💗💗💗 at the ! Stop by this Friday through Sunday. Braden and Lauren have lots of amazing objects, books, tshirts and unique artwork for sale.

will be doing a book signing Saturday in-booth from 1-2 pm! 😍

15/07/2025

THEY’RE HERE! ’s Who Raised You? ships TODAY….giant 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 to , Shelley and the team at Mail Ad Bureau who have been hustling the last 24 hours to make this a reality.

Co-publishers, keep an eye out!

Tariqa Waters will be doing a book signing this Saturday, July 19 at the shop at , 1-2 pm. Stop by to congratulate her, get your book signed, and pick up additional copies!

Books will also available by Saturday at , shop, and .

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