Uncle Projects’s “Common Objects”

Uncle Projects is a Chicago-based independent book publisher, dedicated to preserving photography in print. Their latest release brings together the work of 97 photographers from across the globe to explore the role of the image and its ability to shape perception. Organized not by theme or geography but by visual association, Common Objects draws on the logic of the reference catalog—a structure built for sustained, democratic looking. Here photographs from vastly different cultures and contexts find themselves in unexpected proximity, generating connections and contrasts that no single image could produce alone. In this format, the photographs enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, revealing how context, sequence, and framing shape interpretation and inform visual experience.

Featured photographers include: Celine Amorim, Hilda Argumosa, John Barnard, Zachary Begler, László Gábor Belicza, Angela Blumen, Cas Bochner, Dominique Philippe Bonnet, Anton Bou, Anna Bruce, Kelly Burgess, Neville Caulfield, Jewel Champbell, Ayushi Channawar, Ning Cheng, Anna Chow, Oana Cionca, Jaina Cipriano, Hernando Conwi, Guthrie Cooper, Ellen Cronin, Dallas Crow, Kira Crugnale, Ben Davis, Brian St. Denis, Ness DeVos, Kristin Dimitrova, Lieve Early, Abby Edwards, Giuseppe Francavilla, Gretchen Grace, Silvia Clo Di Gregorio, Nick Grinder, Mike Hamar, Clayton Hauck, Gabriel Alejandro Gomez Herrera, Shelley Horan, Arthur Hunking, Michelle Huynh, Susan Jablonski, Claudia Kedney-Bolduc, Jonathan Khan, Nate King, Katya Konioukhova, De Kwok, Eve Lee, Joyce Lee, Moonsung Lee, Maria Bethania Lopez, Rachele Maistrello, Sarah Malakoff, Simone Martel, Nika McKagen, Clay Mills, Dominika Muszyńska, Svilen Nachev, Ralph Nabil Nasrallah, Grady Neilan, Gabriel Orlowski, Oliver Kolding Palm, Valentina Paparoni, Mia Patterson, Le Pels, Parker Phelps, Tanya Podubienko, Ian Pritchard, Josefine Rauch, Anna Renger, Matthew Rigby, Rafa Rojas, Xavier Rony, Antonio Rosato, Eslam Abd El Salam, Paul Seaton, Enzo Sebastiani, Michael Seleski, Scott Semler, Tiago Serpa, Niki Stavrianou, Anniina Suhonen, Eric O Sullivan, Maxim Tardiveau, Shaza Tarig, Eliseo Tess, Jeff Tidwell, Angela Tozzi, Cody Tracy, Olivier Tuinier, Gabrielle Tyrie, Vahid Valikhani, Michael Vallera, Nick Venaglia, Hunter Ventress, Hanyue Wang, Elijah Wilborn, Tay Wilcoxson, Thordis Wolf