BODY OF WORK is an artist book by Tom Craft exploring how photography might be reconfigured through new-materialist and agential-realist thought.
Bringing critical writing into relation with an expanded studio practice, the book approaches photographs not as fixed representations, but as material events produced between bodies, objects, technologies, histories and spaces.
Through critical writing and artistic praxis, BODY OF WORK considers how photographic subjects are measured, assembled and continually remade. As such, the series of essays ask what becomes possible when the less violent image ecologies are enabled.
Published by Imprint Contemporary
Limited edition of 100
Approx. 100 pages · 210 × 155 mm · Coptic stitched
Preorders shipped by December 2026
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BODY OF WORK is an artist book by Tom Craft exploring how photography might be reconfigured through new-materialist and agential-realist thought.
Bringing critical writing into relation with an expanded studio practice, the book approaches photographs not as fixed representations, but as material events produced between bodies, objects, technologies, histories and spaces.
Through critical writing and artistic praxis, BODY OF WORK considers how photographic subjects are measured, assembled and continually remade. As such, the series of essays ask what becomes possible when the less violent image ecologies are enabled.
Published by Imprint Contemporary
Limited edition of 100
Approx. 100 pages · 210 × 155 mm · Coptic stitched
Preorders shipped by December 2026
(Image not indicative of final product, details are subject to change)