Sam Youkilis's immediate and generous indexing of everyday life reaches across space and time in his debut monograph – a 528-page typology of human experience. Sam Youkilis has been building a continuous archive of photographic works through his phone for the last six years. Working instinctively, Youkilis's short, immersive videos gather universal themes of human experience, using the casual language of the cameraphone to evoke something profound, anthropological, comprehensive and yet incomplete. Youkilis’s work springs from an attitude, a way of experiencing the world, that contains depth beyond the o ff hand ease in which his images freely circulate. In Youkilis’s first publication, the depth of this engagement with human patterns of behaviour is archived and scattered across a diverse range of themes, divided into chapters that playfully tease the tensions between categorisation and chance that inform his observational works. Made exclusively of video stills, Somewhere scours Youkilis’s database for images of everything from the time of day–7:07AM, 12:33PM—to unmade beds, the act of cutting, thresholds, dancing couples and gestures of romance. Presented as a dense 500-page sequence, Somewhere activates the archive and the typology as a source of human joy and communion while emboldening his subjects and unlocking the deep essence of di ff erent places worldwide. Youkilis embraces the real by engaging with both ephemerality and sincerity, while steeped in reverence for the photographic medium through a meticulous engagement with composition, colour, chiaroscuro and framing. Sam Youkilis (b. 1993, New York) is a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Italy. Eight signed screenprints also available First Printing, November 2023 Second Printing, February 2024 528 pages, 105 x 162 mm, 420 colour plates Section-sewn debossed softcover with exposed spine and bookmark With essays by David Campany, Matt Goulding and Lou Stoppard Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints Studio Designed & Published by Loose Joints LJ187, ISBN 978-1-912719-49-5 Press: Aperture Le Monde Vanity Fair The Times Another i-D Vogue Italia Photovogue Document Journal The Face Interview Magazine Metal Le Monde BBC Wallpaper* Forbes Publico (Portuguese) Events: London Launch Weds 22 November 5–8pm, Oranj, 14 Bacon St, London E1 6LF New York Launch Friday 22 December 6–9pm, Dashwood Books, New York Paris Launch Weds 15 November 6–8pm, Librairie Yvon Lambert, 14 Rue des Filles du Calvaire, Paris 75003 Marseille Launch Friday 17 November 6–9pm, Ensemble, 7 rue du Chevalier Roze, Marseille 13002, with food and wine from Ripaille Signing at Paris Photo & Offprint, Saturday 11 November 2023
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