Daniel Shea & Francesca Gavin: 'Distribution' [Book launch & signing]

Join us at Tenderbooks for the UK launch of Daniel Shea’s book Distribution. Opening with a series of portraits of Jessica, a women who represents the statistical median of a person living in the United States, before expanding outward to surfaces, buildings, trees, and eventually groups of people, Distribution is a work that asks how we locate subjects and attendant problems in a world shaped by competing density and dispersion. 

Daniel Shea will be joined in conversation by Francesca Gavin, editor-in-chief of EPOCH Magazine and host of Rough Version on NTS Radio.

Free to attend.

Friday 7 November
18:30-20:00 

Tenderbooks 
6 Cecil Court 
London WC2N 4HE 
United Kingdom 

About Distribution 

This vast artist’s book began with a deceptively simple question: how do you photograph a forest? Daniel Shea found that forests presented a revealing challenge: that of capturing the whole – the immersive totality of being in nature – when photography so relentlessly pulls us to the fragment. Over several years and across varied geographies, he made photographs with deliberately constrained methods – rendering dense woodlands with a telephoto lens, capturing cities only through the window of a moving car – as if to invert the old adage about not seeing the forest for the trees. These working constraints foregrounded what resists representation: ecological complexity, social entanglement, and the architectures that influence both. Distribution explores the tension between environments that overwhelm with density and patterns that slowly emerge through repetition, accumulation, and framing.

Can't make it? Purchase a copy of Distribution here.