I have long been interested the way photography, art, and media express notions about knowledge and its histories. To weave my scholarly and photographic practices together, I am working on a hand-printed and bound book project that will pair original photopolymer gravure prints of my photographs (as in the image above) with text drawn from a range of sources relevant to—but not always recognized in—the production of knowledge. This unconventional pairing aims to poke and prod at the conventional relationship between image and text and unsettle the epistemological and disciplinary assumptions that we make in our daily lives. The project is in an early development and mockup stage, so below is a subset of images I’m working with and will eventually print in photopolymer gravure, an intensive printing method that dates back to photography’s earliest decades. Using this technique, my project nods to the history of photography, the photobook, and the problematic origins of documentary photography.