Finding the Meniscus
In Finding the Meniscus, Leah Rom moves back in with her mother and makes a set of family pictures inspired by their dynamic—the soft edges dividing them, the mirrors they become for each other.
This collection of photographs from the cloistral years of 2020 and 2021 sees a returned daughter get closer and closer to her mother—close enough to focus on the foliage caught in her hair and the droplets of water splattered across her glasses. Later, photographs of friends mingle with the pictures taken at home. Euphoric and frenetic, Leah’s flash bounces hard off shiny places and people; the quotidian refuse of daily life is gleaming and exalted too.
In the tradition of Larry Sultan’s seminal Pictures from Home, this collection materializes as both an emergent self-portrait and as a wish that photographs accomplish the ever-impossible task of capturing the world.
—Kate Rouhandeh
DETAILS
60 pages, 41 color photographs
8.5 × 10.75-inch
Soft cover, wire-o bound
Edition of 200
ISBN 979-8-9887628-1-2
Photography and text by Leah Rom
Designed by Jūratė Gačionytė
Printed in Hollywood by Nonstop Printing
Published by Gogga Books, 2024
In Finding the Meniscus, Leah Rom moves back in with her mother and makes a set of family pictures inspired by their dynamic—the soft edges dividing them, the mirrors they become for each other.
This collection of photographs from the cloistral years of 2020 and 2021 sees a returned daughter get closer and closer to her mother—close enough to focus on the foliage caught in her hair and the droplets of water splattered across her glasses. Later, photographs of friends mingle with the pictures taken at home. Euphoric and frenetic, Leah’s flash bounces hard off shiny places and people; the quotidian refuse of daily life is gleaming and exalted too.
In the tradition of Larry Sultan’s seminal Pictures from Home, this collection materializes as both an emergent self-portrait and as a wish that photographs accomplish the ever-impossible task of capturing the world.
—Kate Rouhandeh
DETAILS
60 pages, 41 color photographs
8.5 × 10.75-inch
Soft cover, wire-o bound
Edition of 200
ISBN 979-8-9887628-1-2
Photography and text by Leah Rom
Designed by Jūratė Gačionytė
Printed in Hollywood by Nonstop Printing
Published by Gogga Books, 2024
In Finding the Meniscus, Leah Rom moves back in with her mother and makes a set of family pictures inspired by their dynamic—the soft edges dividing them, the mirrors they become for each other.
This collection of photographs from the cloistral years of 2020 and 2021 sees a returned daughter get closer and closer to her mother—close enough to focus on the foliage caught in her hair and the droplets of water splattered across her glasses. Later, photographs of friends mingle with the pictures taken at home. Euphoric and frenetic, Leah’s flash bounces hard off shiny places and people; the quotidian refuse of daily life is gleaming and exalted too.
In the tradition of Larry Sultan’s seminal Pictures from Home, this collection materializes as both an emergent self-portrait and as a wish that photographs accomplish the ever-impossible task of capturing the world.
—Kate Rouhandeh
DETAILS
60 pages, 41 color photographs
8.5 × 10.75-inch
Soft cover, wire-o bound
Edition of 200
ISBN 979-8-9887628-1-2
Photography and text by Leah Rom
Designed by Jūratė Gačionytė
Printed in Hollywood by Nonstop Printing
Published by Gogga Books, 2024