Ahrens Editions

With barely enough time to come up for air, I’m hit with the next set of challenges. Like all Firsts in life, this one is no less frightening. Where do I go from here? And no less daunting: What now?

Starting a business, or any new project — whatever it may be — is about maintaining momentum. Juggling multiple tasks while keeping one eye on the present and one in the future.

The best advice I can give to those of you caught in a similar juggling act is to breathe, enjoy each moment and keep your eye on the ball. Embrace the uncertainty. Remember why you started and how far you’ve come. There was always going to be a really ‘shit’ time; just take care not to get stuck in it.

What’s next for me? Well, Mauro D’Agati’s “Less Vegas” deserves to be celebrated. For this I’m arranging a few book signings and events to take place over the summer. Then, next in line is “Ciphers” a book of aerial photographs by Christoph Gielen, which will be published before the years end.

With Ahrens Editions, 2011 marks the beginning of what I hope will become a lifelong adventure of bringing photography projects to the printed page, bound not only into books, but into records of people, places and times past.