A special package which includes a signed copy of the book along with a print of an image from the book. The print is roughly 5.5x8.5, on the same heavy fine-art watercolor paper as my exhibition prints.

Choose your print from one of the six featured images selected from the three series in the book, re:place, Somewhere Between, and Paris: Dialogue. *

If you'd like to see the inside of the book, head over to the "take a peek" page.

NOW AVAILABLE IN THE U.S.

Published by National Taiwan University Press, this fully bilingual book, presented in English and Chinese, collects all the photograph/poetry collaborations to date between Jonas Yip and noted scholar and poet Wai-lim Yip. Gerhard Clausing of PhotoBook Journal writes, "Jonas Yip creatively photographs impressions. Whether he is in Paris, in California, or in China, there is a modern pictorial quality to his depiction of moments and moods, markers and symbols. These powerful images in turn inspire Wai-lim Yip to write poetry, in Chinese and English. Fleeting moments are illustrated in a dream-like manner, and the verbal stimuli and thoughts that use the images as points of departure transport us into a realm of memories and shared human values in a gracefully integrated way. We share feelings and thoughts, impressions and opinions, a world that takes us into ambiguity, as all great art should; the presentations marked by many “indecisive moments” are an invitation to lose ourselves in these multi-faceted realms. We are thus privileged to participate in the authors’ mutually inspired travel through time and cultural settings, with all the memories, recognition, and surprises that they may offer.”

350 pp. 80+ color and b+w images. Presented in English and Chinese.
First Edition published 2017 by National Taiwan University Press.
ISBN 13: 9789863502531 / ISBN 10: 9863502537

You can preview the book on the "take a peek" page, and be sure to check out the special print+book package available as well!

8” x 8” softcover book featuring selections from Thirty Three + a Third

re:place explores the idea of place, both physical and temporal, what defines these places, and how these places are replaced over time: what do we retain of an actual place in our memories? It is and ongoing diaristic series of moments that suggest stories, fragmented and unfinished, and ultimately left for the viewer to complete.

In this book, the series is expanded with additional previously unseen images for a total of 35 images (40 pages).

In this unique art book, fine art photographer Jonas Yip and renowned poet and scholar Wai-lim Yip engage in a dialogue about Paris, pairing expressive, atmospheric photographs with evocative poems. Like two Bauderlairean flâneurs walking around Paris who cannot let go of the memories that flow silently from the city’s buildings, parks, and relics, the authors travel through time and dreams seeking a forgotten history among the trembling light and shadows. The book features over 80 richly toned black-and-white photographs, which Professor Leo Ou-Fan Lee in his introduction calls “shadowy landscapes … dreamscapes [that] seduce us and arouse strange sensations.” Noted poet and anthologist Jerome Rothenberg calls this book “the best presentation so far of [Wai-lim Yip’s] poetry in English.”

There are two editions available.

The large coffee table version is the one to have if you're all about the images. It's nice. It's expensive. $60 (88 images / 160 pages)

The smaller digest version has all the images, but is smaller and softcover. It's nice too, and less expensive. $28 (88 images / 132 pages)

The series somewhere between explores a changing China as seen through the eyes of someone who is really neither Chinese nor American, but rather somewhere between. These are vignettes of a changing China, of landmarks disappearing in smog or with time, of culture and lives and lifestyles torn down in great swaths to make room for the generic and new. The images reveal the pains that accompany modernization: pollution, overcrowding, inflation, disparity. And amongst all the change the Chinese people, for whom life goes on, standing hard amongst the hectic change, living in the balance, somewhere between.

40 pages, 32 images.

A collection of black and white images from a winter trip to NYC, when the trees are bare and the air is biting. Now greatly expanded to 88 pages with more recent images, and also printed larger! Pre-order now and I’ll send it to you when I get them. Or order a copy directly here.

Truth is Stranger than Fiction

interpretations and tall tales by

Aline Smithson
Amanda Hankerson
Bob Bright
Bootsy Holler
Claire Mallett
Jamie Johnson
J. K. Lavin
Jonas Yip
Lisa McCord
Tami Bahat

Take a peek inside this book here.

The Paris Metro slideshow/poetry reading performed at the San Diego Museum of Art made into book form. Go check out the video to see what it's all about.

NEW! Take a peek inside this book on the "take a peek" page.