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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.

25/12/2025

In seven days a new calendar begins….what paths have you traveled? What plans lie ahead?

Wishing our authors, collaborators, colleagues, co-publishers, friends and family a peaceful and loving final week of 2025. Thanks for sharing our journey thus far, here’s to the present moment!

18/12/2025

We 💗 the airport store…bring an empty bag thru security and do your holiday shopping here! Books (by us and others!), .tseen’s limited-edition album package, fun merch.

You know what you won’t find tho? We’re All Pros Here….the previous copies on view last month have sold out!!! 😍😍😍

Happy hols…

16/12/2025

NOW IN PRE-SALES! Running Wild: The Rainier Beer Campaigns 1974-1987

based on the -premiered documentary Rainier: A Beer Odyssey, by Justin Peterson, Rob Peterson, and Isaac M. Olsen

Last fall, while .peterson.photographer’s exhibition was at , had an event at the museum, and we learned about some interesting docs being screened. Little did we know what we were in for.

The absolutely captivated us, bringing back childhood memories of what the Northwest was then, and telling amazing stories about the teams behind these iconic campaigns.

We learned that the guys selling cool sweatshirts from the film were not only the writer / producers, but owners of , a favorite establishment in T-town!

Mutual fandom led to conversations and collaboration. With the incredibly talented Kathleen Cain , one of the brilliant minds at Heckler Associates, on board to write, tons of source material from the film, (now home of much of the original film footage) in support, and a full display of film merch available at …

here we are, 25% to goal to make this book! Thanks to EVERYONE who’s stepped up! let’s keep running wild and get to our goal of 500 copies pre-sold to green light this Northwest history in book form!

15/12/2025

Tragedy from Bondi Beach to LA is a lot to absorb in one day. 💔 Also losses in the family, flooding in the region, a time of overabundance and abundant need. Sending light and love, peace and tolerance as these last days of the calendar unfold.

02/12/2025

UPCOMING!

We are thrilled to announce that we are in development on a forthcoming FIRST book with , featuring her series Sedimental.

Walter submitted this project to us through and it was love at first review! A perfect balance of humor, intelligence, concept, composition, and a clear mastery of the craft of photography (not to mention some serious sewing skills).

Follow along as we work our way through editing, sequencing and design over the weeks ahead—anticipating a pre-sales launch in spring!

Congratulations Margeaux!

📷 Cascade Falls, copyright Margeaux Walter, from ‘Sedimental’

25/11/2025

Peace and safe journeys as we move toward the end of the calendar.

If this is a time of gift giving, we thank you for keeping our books in mind. If this is a time for reflection, we look forward to your thoughts on what has passed and what is most present for you.

We proceed into the weeks ahead with remembrance, and with gratitude (and MAYBE with some announcements? stay tuned).

Thanks for engaging with us.

22/11/2025

What we’re reading this weekend:

Never Forget (Minor Matters, 2021) by , with additional texts by , , and .rritt.

The design of this limited-edition accordion book incorporates text on the slipcase, and at all four entry points to the book, so the work itself is always held in context.

Grateful to our co-publishers & institutional partners for the existence of this book.

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.

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