In his second monograph, Little Cities, Rich-Joseph Facun guides viewers on a meandering meditation through Southeastern Ohio by depicting the vernacular post-industrial landscape. In their quiet formality, the images call to mind past dreams, present disillusionment, and gently nudge us to look beyond what can be seen on the surface. Through recurring motifs, Facun excavates remaining signs of the Indigenous communities who once called this region home. In mankind’s hubris, we want to believe we shape the land we live on. Facun’s photographs remind us that the landscape contains memory, and it is witness to our misdeeds. 

Little Cities
Release: August 2022
59 color photographs
1 Vintage photograph
Essay by Rich-Joseph Facun
Published by Little Oak.PRESS – https://www.littleoakpress.com/

Hardcover, 7.75 x 9.75 inches
128 pages
First Edition of 500

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Rich-Joseph Facun is a photographer of Indigenous Mexican and Filipino descent. His work aims to offer an authentic look into endangered, bygone, and fringe cultures—those transitions in time where places fade but people persist. The exploration of place, community and cultural identity present themselves as a common denominator in both his life and photographic endeavors. www.facun.com

Facun creates commissions for various publications, including NPR, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vox, Adweek, Education Week, The FADER, Frank 151, Topic, The National (UAE), Telerama (France), The Globe and Mail (Canada) and Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), among others.

Additionally, Facun’s work has been recognized by or featured in Photolucida’s Critical Mass, CNN, British Journal of Photography, The Washington Post, F-Stop Magazine, Feature Shoot, The Image Deconstructed, The Photo Brigade, Looking at Appalachia, and Pictures of the Year International. His first monograph, Black Diamonds, was published by Fall Line Press in 2021. 

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Little Oak.PRESS is an independent publisher located in Charlottesville, VA. LO.P produces a range of publications from newsprint public-art projects to zines, limited-edition artist books and maquettes. We value experimentation, collaboration, community, and making thoughtful work accessible in tangible and tactile ways.

See their available list of fine books – https://www.littleoakpress.com/