Salon #25 – TIS Books: Tim Carpenter, Nelson Chan, and Carl Wooley

23 February, 2018: 10×10 enjoyed an evening of photobooks with the folks behind TIS Books. We were hosted by the Gitterman Gallery at 41 East 57th Street, NYC. Thank you TIS (Tim, Nelson and Carl) and thank you Tom Gitterman for hosting!

Based in Brooklyn, TIS books publishes unique photobooks that are the offspring of a camera and a mind at work in the world. Their most recent publication, Dumbsaint 01: township, is a collaboration between Raymond Meeks, Tim Carpenter, Adrianna Ault and Brad Zellar. Forthcoming books by Rose Marie Cromwell, Jenia Fridlyand and Andrea Modica will join catalog titles by John Gossage, Justine Kurland with John Yau and Steven B. Smith. In addition, they publish the TIS Series with contributions from Tim Carpenter, J Carrier, Nelson Chan and Carl Wooley.

Nelson Chan, production manager for the Aperture Foundation’s book program and quarterly magazine, holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Hartford Art School. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Museum of Chinese in America, New York City; The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts; 2013 Flash Forward Photography Festival; and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Prior to joining Aperture, Chan was a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute, as well as a visiting critic in the Photography MFA Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a co-founder of TIS books.

Tim Carpenter is a photographer and writer who works in Brooklyn and central Illinois. He received an MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School in 2012, and later that year co-founded TIS books. His books include A house and a tree (TIS) The king of the birds (TIS); Local objects (The Ice Plant); township (TIS/Dumbsaint); and Bement grain (TIS/Dumbsaint).

Carl Wooley is a photographer based in Brooklyn and a co-founder of TIS books.