ABOUT THE BOOK

Softcover
7.44 x 9.69 in.
18.9 x 24.61 cm.
250 b&w photographs
662 pages
Shipping included (US)
Edition of 350

Photographs by Kate Joyce (1998-1999)
Translated from the Latin by Andrew Berns (2020)
With excerpts from The Latin Library’s Metamorphoses by Ovid (c 8 C.E.)

• Originally I made the photographs in Chile while traveling alone as a teenager.
  Twenty-years later I discovered the photographs in the work of Ovid.

• The book is in English and Latin.

• I distilled the myths to an essence. I discovered lines of poetry and photographs
  that resonated (out of the 1,500 black and white negatives from my travels and
  the 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths from Ovid).

• I then asked my friend Andrew Berns to make an English translation of those lines.

• Alongside Berns' English translation are excerpts of Ovid's poem
  in Latin that act as a design element and reminder of time and origin.

ABOUT THE PRINTS

Set of 14 prints
5 x 7.5 in.
Edition of 10 (2 left)

• Archival ultra chrome pigment print on Moab Entrada fiber paper 300 gsm

• Printed and hand trimmed in my studio

• Signed, titled and dated on back

• Individually sleeved in plastic protectors

• Selection of envelopes included

• Shipping included

Kate Joyce (b. 1979) is an artist using photography to explore interfaces between the ordinary and extraordinary. Her work is informed by the geometry of light and space along with documentary processes and remains attuned to elements of ambiguity and mystery. Often employing typologies, relationships between pictures and literature, and collaboration. In 2022, Metaphysics, a series of color photographs made from her window seat onboard airplanes, was exhibited at SITE Santa Fe, with a companion publication by Hat & Beard Press. Kate designs and self-publishes under her imprint Special Problems Press. Metamorphoses (Special Problems Press, 2021) transforms Ovid’s collection of myths from the ancient world, written toward the end of his life nearly two thousand years ago, into a photographic journal of contemporary life seen through a series of photographs made 20-years ago in Chile. With a new and collaborative English translation from the Latin by longtime friend and historian Andrew Berns. Analogies (Special Problems Press, 2021) is a visual correspondence between Kate Joyce and software engineer Gordon Cameron that asks how human minds make connections and challenges the idea that artificial intelligence could do the same. Her book Big Ears Knoxville (Hat & Beard Press, 2019) chronicles life on and off the stage and in the streets at a music festival and the town where the festival takes place, with essays by musicians Rachel Grimes and Joe Henry, preface by Ben Ratliff, and a hand selected soundtrack from live recordings at Big Ears, in collaboration with Rock Fish Stew Institute of Literature and Materials. Kate grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She studied photojournalism and sociology at San Francisco State University; Spanish in Guatemala and Chile; and documentary photography at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Kate received a Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative Fellowship (2003-2004) during which she worked in Bloemfontein, South Africa. In 2010 she founded Kate Joyce Studios to manage her freelance commercial architectural photography commissions. Since 2016 Kate has been based in her home town.

Andrew Berns is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He teaches and writes about the intersection of the textual and natural worlds, particularly in the context of Jewish-Christian relations in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean. After learning that Berns was a long-time lover of Latin poetry, Kate Joyce proposed this unique collaboration in translation.