Dylan Hausthor
& Pia Paulina Guilmoth

‘Sleep Creek’

by Dylan Hausthor & Pia Paulina Guilmoth published by Void.

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“The town is quiet, the streets are empty. But if you take the road into the backwoods, you’ll start to hear some noises. A branch snaps and there are voices, laughing. A few lights are on at one house and a fire burns behind a barn. And if you relax your eyes you can see that there are people all around. The folks who live further out don’t follow the same rules. They have their own idea of what the night is for.

Hausthor and Guilmoth listen to the people who tell them stories of birth and death and their photographs are remnants of those who live along a little creek that floods on the same day each spring. This book is the result of many days in and around the stream and a testament to the power of the myths that fuel the towns in the distance.”

Vivian Ewing

Sleep Creek

‘Sleep Creek’ is a landscape filled with trauma and beauty. It’s a place where animals are only seen when they’re being hunted and humans balance between an unapologetic existence and an abyss of secrecy. These images manipulate a landscape that is simultaneously autobiographical, documentary, and fictional: a weaving of myth and symbol in order to be confronted with the experiential. Following the rituals of those within it, ‘Sleep Creek’ is an obsession between the subject and the photographer — a compulsion to reveal its shrouded Nature.”

“There’s something deeply personal about many of these images, but we hope that there is something more universal in the intensity of the characters and their interactions with the land.”

Dylan Hausthor & Pia Paulina Guilmoth

‘Sleep Creek’ is entirely shot in New England, for the reason that this was the only region that the artists knew. Even though the place holds a strong regional identity, Pia Paulina and Dylan didn’t want the work to represent or speak to a regional identity but to use the region as a backdrop for more unhindered ideas of story, myth, and character.

That said, they do believe there is something specifically inspiring about the simultaneous history and youth of this part of America. In their own words: “Colonialism is apparent everywhere, every square foot of woods has been tainted by something human, and every pond is always covered with algae. There is anonymity in all of their characters, akin to the faceless identity of small-town New England”.

Even though ‘Sleep Creek’ blurs the borders of reality and fiction, the intention of the artists was never to confuse, but rather to build a place from the ground up, leaving little remnants of the place they initially set out to document. Their impulse to contort “place” had to do with the inevitable ways the exterior world affects one’s interior landscape and experience of it. There are no beginnings, middles, or ends in their experiences of the world, nor a hard line between the experienced and the directed.

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Limited Edition of 100
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The Collector’s Edition

Limited Edition of 20

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The 'Sleep Creek' Collector's Edition is a limited edition of only 20 copies, housed in a beautifully crafted foiled hardcover portfolio. This exclusive edition includes two 20 x 26 cm prints, both signed and numbered by the artists, making each set unique within the edition of 20. Along with the prints, the set comes with the standard 'Sleep Creek' book, offering collectors a complete and rare package of the artists’ work.

Sleep Creek

17 x 21,5 cm
144 pages
1250 copies – 1st Print
2000 copies – 2nd Print
Open-spine softcover

ISBN 978-618-84341-5-8 1st Print — SOLD OUT
ISBN 978-618-5479-06-0 2nd Print

Special Edition

Limited Edition of 100 (50 for each print)
Comes in a special white cover book
Darkroom handmade printed by the artists
Singed and Numbered 17,5 x 12,5 cm prints in an edition of 50

Collector’s Edition

Limited edition of 20 copies
Foiled Hardcover Portfolio
With two 20 x 26 cm signed & numbered prints by the artist in the edition of 20
+ the standard ‘Sleep Creek’ book