Press Coverage and Accolades for Metro

I’m thrilled that my Daylight monograph Metro: Scenes from an Urban Stage has received extensive press coverage and accolades since its release in May 2016. It was named as one the best photography books of Summer 2016 by American Photo Magazine.

In the past two months, Metro has also been featured in articles in The Daily Mail UK, ABC NEWS, PDN Online, American Photo Magazine, Business Insider, Amateur Photographer, F-Stop Magazine Book Review, L’Oeil de la Photographie, The Plaid Zebra, Lionel Tracks, Flavorwire, and Fubiz.

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“This book is part of a great legacy of photographic work that has been produced about subway passengers … This is something to see, to ponder, and to cherish.”

— Ed Kashi from his Foreword

“Raucher’s focus is not the dramatic actions that usually capture our consciousness and newspaper headlines. He’s not a subway Weegee. He’s drawn towards moments internal and intimate, quiet and quotidian, interactions startling only in how universally commonplace – how human – they are, in how the very publicness of riding a subway can give way to moments of intimacy at all.”

— Marlaine Glicksman from her Essay

2016 Blue Sky Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers

Ten prints from my series Holy Week in Guatemala will be on display in the 2016 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers at the Blue Sky Gallery Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. This series was recently featured in Slate and was also a PX3 Competition Bronze Award Winner and a Critical Mass 2015 Finalist.

The exhibition was juried by Katherine Ware, curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art. The opening reception will be on Thursday April 7, 2016, from 6-9 pm as part of the Portland Photo Month, and the exhibition will be on display through March 31, 2017. The Blue Sky Gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday from 12-5 PM and on First Thursdays 6-9 PM, and is located at located at 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209.

I was also honored to have prints from my series Life on the Streets of Cuba will be on display in 2015 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, my series Avoid Naples! in the 2014 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, and my series Return to New York in the 2012 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers.

Holy Week in Guatemala featured in Slate

Thanks to David Rosenberg for featuring ten images from my series Holy Week in Guatemala in Slate Behold. All of these images were captured in Antigua during Semana Santa in 2015. The Slate article was published while I was on a return trip to Guatemala to photograph during the 2016 celebrations.

Ten prints from this series will also be on display from April 7, 2016 through March 31, 2017 in the 2016 Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR.

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I plan assemble a portfolio for my website combining images from both years soon.

Metro at SF Camerawork

I was thrilled to give a talk at the Daylight Books Spring 2016 launch event at San Francisco Camerawork last week where my book   Metro: Scenes from an Urban Stage   was unveiled.

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Photo by Taj Forer

After spending countless hours riding and photographing on metro systems around the world during the past eight years, followed by months of editing and sequencing of images for the book, and making numerous design decisions, it was wonderful to finally hold the completed monograph in my hand. The 88 page hardbound 8 by 10 inch book contains fifty images from metros in fifteen cities on four continents. It includes a wonderful foreword by Ed Kashi and a compelling essay by Marlaine Glicksman. The graphic design by Ursula Damm is simultaneously classic and unique. The beautiful duotone printing was done by Ofset Yapimivi in Istanbul on Magno matt paper. I’m very grateful for all of the help and encouragement I received from my friends and everyone at Daylight Books. I’m extremely pleased with this book turned out, and I hope that you will agree.

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