Happy New Year, y’all!
Kicking off 2023 here with a magazine release party and rock show on January 21st at FLATS Houston, TX.
Thrilled to be featured in FLAT FILES Issue 3 release with work from my Passing Place book alongside Kristina Knipe and Bucky Miller. My wife Karen and I’s band SKLOSS are also playing the party with Houston’s Little Outfit. Should be a right good time.
See you there!
Still Corners backstage at The Parish. Austin, Texas 5/27/22
Scottish author Daniel Kalder. Austin, Texas May 2021.
New work for the New York Times with Austin’s dynamic duo of film;)
Our animated short film about bmx legend Paul Buchanan and the church gap is now showing at the 2022 Bicycle Film Festival through April 24th.
We are super proud this was an official selection this year and stoked to be included. We hope you get a good laugh out of it as much as we did making it. 🎟🍿 Festival passes are here to see Paul shred and and all the other radical cycling films in this year’s program. Animated brilliantly by Taj mihelich and narrated by yers truly. Intro by James Shepherd, sound design by David Jack, sound bites/archives by Stew Johnson & Chris Rye. 🎸 By The Taj and Monty band.
Cheers
My wife Karen and I’s new music project SKLOSS have a 7 inch on purple vinyl out today for pre-order and streaming wherever you stream. Hope y’all dig it!
Cheers!
Living in East Austin, Texas remains an experiment. As the city grows, the mysterious peripheries of the landscape collide with expansion. The roar of the expressway cuts nomads and wildlife off from the city, and it’s at this juncture where SKLOSS formed their expansive, cathartic sound.
“Living next to the woods had something to do with it,” says SKLOSS guitarist Carson. SKLOSS, consisting of Carson and drummer Karen Skloss, is a two-piece guitar and drums outfit that began as a side project out of the duo’s marriage. At first, it was an escape from their everyday lives as creative professionals. But the COVID-19 pandemic changed their focus.
“We started to use music as an outlet. Like most everyone during that time, we were so cooped up,” says Skloss. Jams became songs, while the noise level and experimentation went up. The sound of SKLOSS became a response to the crazy world just outside their window. And the living room became their practice space.
Then came a call from Volcom, asking SKLOSS to score a film to coincide with the release of a Featured Artist Series collaboration with multi-platform artist Thomas Hooper. “This project kicked our arse to get out of the living room and into the studio,” says Carson.
Recorded and mixed by Jason Morales (Tia Carrera) and mastered by Grammy Award winning producer Erik Wofford (Explosions in The Sky, My Morning Jacket) at Cacophony Recorders in East Austin, SKLOSS’ experimental takes are meditative and psyche-influenced, while retaining an atmospheric, unknowing quality that mirrors the eeriness of East Austin.
Recorded live and mixed by Jason Morales (Tia Carerra) at the BBQ Shack. Mastered by Erik Wofford (Explosions In The Sky, The Black Angels) at Cacophony Recorders, December/January 2022 Cover art by Thomas Hooper & Jacob Bannon. Band photo by Clif Wright Cardinal Press 2022
Happy New Year y’all! Hope you are keeping well and safe out there.
Cary Benbow wrote a lovely review of Pretty Much to start the new year over at Yield magazine-the art mag at the University of Notre Dame.
Enjoy,
sandy
Announcing my new monograph -’PRETTY MUCH’ for pre-order and shipping mid September from Aint Bad-
In his latest body of work, Sandy Carson turns his wry wit to cataloging the year 2020, an uncertain and unprecedented time where the world began navigating the ‘new normal.’
Brilliantly observed and utterly relatable, these photographs (amassed mostly during lockdown in Austin, Texas and entirely during the calendar year) observe and document family relationships, grief, protests, social issues, and everyday street life as Carson left home to exercise and escape for his own sanity by foot or on his bike. Curious pairings evoke the interconnectedness many of us felt.
On the street or just around the corner, a timeless, heartfelt, and absurdist lens joins with Sandy’s hopeful approach to storytelling, inviting the observer to take a deep breath, buckle up and hold on just a bit longer. It’s a gentle reminder that someday, these days will be worth remembering. Pretty much.
Title : Pretty Much
Text By: Chloe Juno
Details : Edition Size 300 9″ x 7″, 96 pages Hard Cover, Perfect Bound ISBN : 978-1-944005-49-8 Published by : Aint–Bad Fall 2021
Really happy to have my first photo in the April issue of Harper's Magazine for their National Parks article 🏞 Thank you Alyssa Coppelman. The Glacier National Park photo was taken from my book- ‘I’ve Always Been A Cowboy In My Heart’ Free shipping on Cowboy Heart and my new book ‘Passing Place’ right now through the weekend from Yoffy Press using SANDYSHIPS code on checkout. Cheers! Photo on left by Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber. Intro pic by Jesse Rieser. Harpers article here- https://lnkd.in/dP4CW9a
Deep Red Press listed my new photo memoir ‘Passing Place’ in their top 20 books for 2020 along with Marcy Palmer’s new book also on Yoffy Press. Thanks, DRP!
Also an air hug to BOOOOOOOM for the shout out in the 75 for 75 in 2020!
Hope y’all are having a happy new year and all the best for ‘21.
-SC
My new book ‘Passing Place’ is out today on Yoffy Press!
Thanks a million for your patience and pre-orders. Shipping now!
Passing Place is an intimate portrait of both Sandy Carson’s mother and the ex-mining village he grew up in the West of Scotland after emigrating to America at a young age. This photographic memoir deals with separation, space, and the invisible family bonds that exist despite physical distance incurred by geographical displacement.
The name is inspired by one-lane rural roads with wide spots that are common in Scotland, allowing vehicles to pass each other and continue on their journey.
These photographs and memories made on annual visits home since 2001, are a testimony to Carson’s upbringing and a gentle reminder that absence creates longing and nostalgia across the miles. Carson was drawn to make a record of everyday domestic rituals and routines during the rare times he and his mother spent together, to distill time with her portending passing in 2016.
By uniting his photographs with the ephemera and family photos left behind by his mum, Carson is striving to fill the void by retracing their lives, embracing the formative years they spent together, and absorbing the ones they lost.
Released November 2020
Photographs by Sandy Carson Introduction by Allan McNaughton Essays by Daniel Kalder and Stephen McLaren
Hardcover, 9 x 6.5 inches 108 pages Edition of 350
ISBN: 978-1-949608-23-6 Trade Edition: $40.00
Remembering outlaw country icon, Billy Joe Shaver.
Shot in this month’s Texas Highways.
Billy Joe Shaver, 2012 © Sandy Carson
Last week of pre-orders for my new book ‘PASSING PLACE’
Available November 2020
Photographs by Sandy Carson Introduction by Allan McNaughton Essays by Daniel Kalder and Stephen McLaren
Hardcover, 9 x 6.5 inches 108 pages Edition of 350
ISBN: 978-1-949608-23-6 Trade Edition: $40.00
Passing Place by Sandy Carson
Passing Place is an intimate portrait of both Sandy Carson’s mother and the ex-mining village he grew up in the West of Scotland after emigrating to America at a young age. This photographic memoir deals with separation, space, and the invisible family bonds that exist despite physical distance incurred by geographical displacement.
The name is inspired by one-lane rural roads with wide spots that are common in Scotland, allowing vehicles to pass each other and continue on their journey.
These photographs and memories made on annual visits home since 2001, are a testimony to Carson’s upbringing and a gentle reminder that absence creates longing and nostalgia across the miles. Carson was drawn to make a record of everyday domestic rituals and routines during the rare times he and his mother spent together, to distill time with her portending passing in 2016.
By uniting his photographs with the ephemera and family photos left behind by his mum, Carson is striving to fill the void by retracing their lives, embracing the formative years they spent together, and absorbing the ones they lost.
Some BW images from my new book ‘Passing Place’ on Yoffy Press
Passing Place is an intimate portrait of both Sandy Carson’s mother and the ex-mining village he grew up in the West of Scotland after emigrating to America at a young age. This photographic memoir deals with separation, space, and the invisible family bonds that exist despite physical distance incurred by geographical displacement.
The name is inspired by one-lane rural roads with wide spots that are common in Scotland, allowing vehicles to pass each other and continue on their journey.
These photographs and memories made on annual visits home since 2001, are a testimony to Carson’s upbringing and a gentle reminder that absence creates longing and nostalgia across the miles. Carson was drawn to make a record of everyday domestic rituals and routines during the rare times he and his mother spent together, to distill time with her portending passing in 2016.
By uniting his photographs with the ephemera and family photos left behind by his mum, Carson is striving to fill the void by retracing their lives, embracing the formative years they spent together, and absorbing the ones they lost.
Anticipated release Fall 2020
Photographs by Sandy Carson Introduction by Allan McNaughton Essays by Daniel Kalder and Stephen McLaren
Hardcover, 9 x 6.5 inches 108 pages Edition of 350
ISBN: 978-1-949608-23-6 Trade Edition: $40.00
Pre-sale runs through October 31
Passing Place by Sandy Carson
Passing Place is an intimate portrait of both Sandy Carson’s mother and the ex-mining village he grew up in the West of Scotland after emigrating to America at a young age. This photographic memoir deals with separation, space, and the invisible family bonds that exist despite physical distance incurred by geographical displacement.
The name is inspired by one-lane rural roads with wide spots that are common in Scotland, allowing vehicles to pass each other and continue on their journey.
These photographs and memories made on annual visits home since the early ‘90′s, are a testimony to Carson’s upbringing and a gentle reminder that absence creates longing and nostalgia across the miles. Carson was drawn to make a record of everyday domestic rituals and routines during the rare times he and his mother spent together, to distill time with her portending passing in 2016.
By uniting his photographs with the ephemera and family photos left behind by his mum, Carson is striving to fill the void by retracing their lives, embracing the formative years they spent together, and absorbing the ones they lost.
New film shot for Rapha with Colin Strickland.
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You don’t have to travel to find adventure. Sometimes, simply heading out the door is all it takes to discover new roads, new routes, and new horizons. To help inspire exploration a little closer to home, we handed three friends of Rapha a camera each and partnered them with a local filmmaker to pursue one simple goal: set off on a one-day adventure from where you live, and document what you find. From the outskirts of Oslo to the deserts of Texas and London’s city parks, the result was proof that adventure truly does start anywhere. All you need to find it are two wheels and a healthy sense of discovery.
