Read my review of Anthony Hernandez’s new book Forever for PhotoBook Review #013.

New limited edition publication BLVD from ROMANNVMERALS. Excellent design by Emily Lessard. Available via ROMANNVMERALS website or at the NY Art Book Fair September 21-24, 2017. Please join me there for a book signing on Sat. Sep. 23 at 3pm!

Thank you Andy Adams for choosing Back of Town as your FlakPhoto Books pick of the week!

Listen to a conversation I had with Michael Dalton and Kai McBride on the PhotoShow podcast. 

Read “A Love Song for New Orleans” an interview with Matthew Leifheit for Aperture.

Read “The Last Days of Lower Mid-City” by Andru Okun in The Gambit.

Read “Photos of the New Orleans Neighborhood That Disappeared” by Ellyn Kail for FeatureShoot. 

Read my conversation with the great Los Angeles photographer Anthony Hernandez for BOMB.

Available from Amazon and SPQR Editions.

Now available on Amazon!

I am thrilled to join legendary photographer Anthony Hernandez and brilliant critic Richard B. Woodward in conversation at the Pratt Photography Lectures on Wednesday, October 19th, 6:30pm. Hernandez is currently the subject of a career retrospective at SF MOMA. The lecture will take place in Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61 St. James Place in Brooklyn, NY. I hope to see you there!

I’ve updated some new photographs from LA on my website: http://www.stephenhilger.com/losangeles/

Panelists will discuss the role of higher education in contemporary photography. How does the photographic practice relate to visual arts, literature, film, and journalism? How do educators keep up with technological developments? How does social media activism interact with photography education? What are some of the approaches to different techniques and materials? What role does photographic history and tradition play in today’s classroom? Special thanks to Rick Schatzberg for conceiving this panel.

My first book of photographs, Back of Town, is forthcoming from SPQR Editions this fall. There will be a book signing and party to celebrate the release of the first five books from SPQR on Friday, October 28th at Affirmation Arts in Manhattan from 6:00 - 8:00pm. I am in great company with books by Kai McBride, Dennis Santella, Yoav Horesh, and Jeffrey Henson Scales! Curator Susan Kismaric and Photographer Thomas Roma will have a conversation on the contemporary photobook from 6:30 - 7:00pm that evening. I hope to see you there!

I’ve posted some recent work from Los Angeles on my website.

Top photo: Cover of Both Sides of Sunset with Alex Prager’s “1:18 p.m. Silverlake Drive” (2012). Bottom Photo: Stephen Hilger’s “Blue Tarp” (2002).