I showed Lukas some of my Mission storefronts and he pointed me to Zoe Leonard’s Analogue, her first publication. (Grab it for $21 while you can!) I opened it and got that exhilarated feeling – basically a combination of fear and pride – you get when, after seeing your work, someone recommends something which turns out to seem so much better than your own but at the same time you want to jump up and down to emulate it with your own twist through some painful persistence. You know? You know?

Incidentally, she’s been short-listed for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize along with Anna Fox, Sophie Ristelhueber and Donovan Wylie, and there’s an exhibition of their work at the Photographer’s Gallery in London til April 17th. The winner is to be announced on March 17th, so I’ll cross my fingers. (via Tim Clark)

There is also a Times review of her past Dia exhibition, if you’re curious: “Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras.”

Her photos make me wish my camera focused a bit closer. There are a few black and whites interspersed through the book but I am finding it nearly impossible to take an interest in any but the most abstract black and whites at the moment. After shooting so much color, there is something there beyond the pure color of it that I am no longer willing to give up. Maybe it is simply the pure color. It’s enough.