The January issue of FORGET GOOD features

a short interview and a few spreads of photos.

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(viewable, and available for download, free online)

Untitled (Detroit Michigan), 2012

THE PROBLEM WITH MEN

photographs by Justin C. Rhody

February 1st - 22nd

Space Camp Microgallery

1043 Virginia Ave. Suite 212

Indianapolis Indiana USA

A recent transmission of photographs shot on
December 21st in Guatemala - along with a short bit of text,
published on the Bathetic Records blog.

Some photos were featured on the LATENT IMAGE blog.

A few photographs were included in the group show

YOU WERE HERE

arranged by Peter Shear

for Curating Contemporary

click above, or here: curatingcontemporary.com/#/previous-shows/you-were-here/part-1

I'm currently traveling in Central America completing a body of work.

Below are some selections from the series created during previous encounters.

Email with any questions: friendsandrelativesrecords@yahoo.com

1. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

2. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

3. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

4. Untitled (Momostenangos, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

5. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

6. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

7. Untitled (Guatemala), 2009

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

8. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

9. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

10. Untitled (Guatemala), 2009

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

11. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

12. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

13. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

14. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

15. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011
Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

16. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

17. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

18. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

19. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

20. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

21. Untitled (Guatemala), 2011
Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

22. Untitled (Momostenangos, Guatemala), 2011 
Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

23. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

 
 24. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75
 

  
  25. Untitled (San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala), 2011

Digital C-print, 16"x20"  -  $125
Digital C-print, 8"x10" - $75

I have a photograph published

in the most recent issue of

Quickest Flipest

pictures and words magazine

 (50 pages, perfect bound, 5.25"x8.25")

digital preview and/or purchase HERE

Selections from a commisioned series on

North Florida that was never published.

  Untitled (High Springs Florida), 2012

  Untitled (High Springs Florida), 2012

 Untitled (High Springs Florida), 2012

There was recently a feature on VICE magazine's website about the

SLIDING GLASS DOOR book, with a slideshow of photos and text.

CLICK HERE TO SEE.

I was recently asked a few questions by NISHA, a Russian-language web-magazine, about the "Sliding Glass Door" book. 

So, you have just released a book of photographs titled "Sliding Glass Door" over at Bathetic Records. Is this your first publication?

I've self-published quite a few small art zines through the record label that I run, Friends & Relatives (www.friendsandrelativesrecords.blogspot.com), but this is the first professionally printed & bound book of my photographs that has been printed. A massive mount of appreciation from me goes out to Jon Hency at Bathetic for offering me this opportunity!

What is hiding behind the title?

Hopefully something different every time! The barrier seperating "inside" from "outside" is transparent, you can see through it, and if you're not careful you may end up walking right into it.

What is it that unites all the pictures and makes them go one after another naturally and seamlessly?

Months of effort was put into the selection and sequencing of photos for the book, and in the end the ideas boiled down to almost resembling the experience of learning to dance; I move one foot in this way while swinging my arms over your head. The initial efforts may be clumsy, but eventually a casual gracefulness is achieved and throughout the whole process you're experimenting with space, movement and emotion.
In an interview once, John Updike spoke about an ideal of writing in which every page/passage in a book could be read on it's own and be experienced as a poem, while at the same time it's also possible to read it from cover to cover with the reader experiencing a sense of cohesiveness that allows every "poem" to form together into a novel. Hopefully "Sliding Glass Door" will come off in that manner to viewers.

Are you more depicting or analyzing the world around you using your camera?

I'd like to think that during the moments when I'm most succesful in my efforts I'm able to accomplish both in the same instance. Working within the strictures of reality, I'm making decisions about color, texture and composition - and then setting those desicions between 4 borders onto film in the split of a second... I'm not making it up, I'm just offering it attention and framing.

Available Now!

"Sliding Glass Door"

68 pages of color photographs

edition of 250 copies

$22 (postage paid in the u.s.a.)

(intl. orders write for shipping cost)

paypal to friendsandrelativesrecords@yahoo.com

Published through Bathetic Records

(promo page featuring notes and photos)

"Sliding Glass Door" by Justin Clifford Rhody from Bathetic on Vimeo.

In the current issue of

LAND LINE

some of my electrophotographs were
published to accompany the article
 

"CORRIDOR OF ILLEGALITY,

Guatemala's Violent Past and Uncertain Future" 

by Abigail Smith

A wonderful 5 page spread, plus a whole magazine filled with great art, interesting articles, fiction & poetry, comics, jokes and more... Created and printed with no advertising or profit involved. "Gettable" for free in Chicago, Portland

and some other cities or by contacting the paper directly:

landlinequarterly@gmail.com  -- OR --   p.o.box 891231, Chicago, IL 60608

Fresh off the press

I was asked to design a shirt for John Collins McCormick's new fashion line and this is the result!!!

Based on electrophotographs created from a crushed can found in Guatemala, then smuggled into Michigan. Black and silver ink, printing on front & back.

Sizes small, medium and large. $15.