Last summer I began the painstaking process of going through my archive of all the thousands of @danieljohnstonofficial photographs I’ve taken on film over the last decade that I hadn’t really looked through since my first photo book “here.”
As much as I was excited for making a second book on Daniel, I knew it would be a very emotional process to feel again the complicated feelings I felt while working with Daniel, and now on top of it, the great loss I felt of my friend’s absence in the world.
I wanted to tell the story of both and of the person I knew as Daniel. His home in Waller to me was so perfectly Daniel that I knew and loved, I wanted to encapsulate it into this book “IS ALWAYS.” I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll get to know Daniel better through this book.
For more stories through the years, please join me and Louis Black (Co founder @sxsw@austinchronicle ) for a fireside chat @austinconventioncenter March 14th at 10am followed by a book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the official SXSW bookshop in collaboration with @bookpeople . See you in Austin ♥️
✨Not attending SXSW? You can pre-order books at AnalogNewYork.com/BookShop✨
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Neal Brennan was in town doing his one-man show @cherrylanetheatre so I cold messaged him like I do with many artists I want to work with. Most of the time I don’t get a reply but Neal said yes immediately. Then stars aligned that my friend Rachael Horovitz was home and kindly let us use her beautiful house. Turns out they had already met sometime during Half Baked if I remember correctly. Neal arrived straight from shooting @thedailyshow in the midst of his own show and still made time for our shoot. It means so much to me when artists say yes to collaborating just for the sake of it - as a photographer it feels like the purist thing. Even after 20+ years of shooting professionally, I will never take a “yes” for granted. Thank you @nealbrennan@rkhorovitz ♥️♥️
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