Bryan Schutmaat

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Photobook Austin aims to bring people together in Texas for public conversations and periodic meet-ups to discuss and celebrate photobooks. Our first event will be held on Tuesday, February 28th, 6pm at Austin Community College: Highlands Campus, in Bldg 2000, Dept of Photography. 6101 Highland Campus Dr. Austin, TX 78752 We’ll have three in-person conversations with artists who have recently published photobooks: Eli Durst and Bryan Schutmaat will discuss The Four Pillars (Loose Joints, 2022). Rahim Fortune and Natalie Zelt will discuss I Can’t Stand to See you Cry (Loose Joints, second edition, 2022). And Sarah Wilson and Sean Perry will discuss Dig (Yoffy Press, 2022).

Texas, 2020

Texas, 2020 

Texas, 2020

Texas, 2020

Big Bend, Texas, 2021

Utah, 2021

Leon Bridges for The New Yorker by Bryan Schutmaat 

Big Bend, Texas, 2021

Good Goddamn is on Andy Adams’s best of 2017 list. Thanks, Andy. 

George Muncey has good taste in photobooks, and he can pronounce my name more or less correctly. 

“Like an outlaw country song, this book is bittersweet, brief, poetic, and incredibly moving. Also like a country song, this book paints a chapter in a man’s life. Kris’s story and Good Goddamn alike are both traces that become legacies — legacies that become legends." — Forrest Soper

'Good Goddamn' made it on to some nice end of year lists

My work is in this exhibition of photobooks at the MoMA Library. Click here for more details and the amazing checklist. 

I have a new publication out called Good Goddamn. It’s a short photobook about a friend of mine from rural Texas and his last few days of freedom before going to prison. Good Goddamn by Bryan Schutmaat Published by Trespasser. First edition limited to 750 copies. 9x12 inches. 44 pages. 27 duotone reproductions on Mohawk Superfine uncoated paper. Bound with carton staples. 15x20.25 inch foldout poster included. ISBN 978-0-692-94637-4. Produced and printed in the USA. PURCHASE HERE.  If you’re attending Paris Photo, signed copies of Good Goddamn are available at the Kominek booth at Offprint today through Sunday. 

Dorothea Lange, long-standing idol