Landfall
Photographs by Sal Taylor Kydd. Foreword by Kat Kiernan.
Datz Press, 2020. 84pp., 9.5 x 7 in.
Full disclosure: Kat Kiernan is the Editor-in-Chief of Don’t Take Pictures
“My work draws strongly on the landscape, focusing on my home, family and myself in conversation with the natural world. I am often attracted to the objects and artifacts that we surround ourselves with, as memory-laden emblems of our history and signifiers of time passing. I look to understand how a sense of place can be embedded with personal history.” —Sal Taylor Kydd
Sal Taylor Kydd is a UK photographer, poet, and writer currently based in Maine, U.S.A. Having long established relationships with the islands there, Kydd interprets the island’s landscape and its objects in close connection with the history of its individuals and families. After the tourists leave, she explores Maine's Penobscot Bay Island, recording its slow but never-stopping time through photographs and poems collected in the book ‘LANDFALL’. The Images of the ocean still as glass, the objects holding memories, and the land showing the bonds of the island community are unfolded in Kydd’s visual poetry. With blurred vignettes shown through slivers of selective focus, a sense of timelessness in Penobscot Bay shines through the book. In a limited edition of 100 copies, ‘LANDFALL’ is housed in a slipcase and includes an original 4x5 inch archival pigment print.