You Don’t Need to Hurry Home
Published by Immateral Books, May 2025
Images by Jeff Smudde, 2023 to 2024
25 images, 36 pages, saddle-stitch zine
Featured at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, May 2025
Perennial (MFA Maquette Edition)
Self-published through Sad Bird Books
Images by Jeff Smudde, 2021 to 2023
Text by Walker Downey, 2023
61 plates, 108 pages, 11” x 11”
Printed by Edition One, Richmond, CA, Edition of 5
The Overpass
Self-published through Sad Bird Books
Images by Jeff Smudde, 2022
40 page laser printed magazine, 8.5” x 11”
The Overpass skatepark is a DIY skate park under I-195 in New Bedford, MA.
Available upon request
Mini Monograph Volume 98
Published by Subjectively Objective 2021
Images by Jeff Smudde 2020
11 images, 10 pages, 5.25” × 8.25” zine
Limited edition of 50 copies
Oak Street
Self-published through Sad Bird Books
Images by Jeff Smudde, 2018
11 images, 24 pages, 6” x 9”
A single roll of medium format film shot on Oak Street in Normal, IL. A nighttime exploration of a central Illinois neighborhood that represents the quietness of a college town, the light and form present when everyone has turned-in for the day.
I CAN HEAR THE ROAD CALL
Self-published through Sad Bird Books
Various photographers, curated and designed by Jeff Smudde, text by Jeff Smudde, published August 21, 2020
46 images, 52 pages, 8.5” x 11”
The second submission-based zine by Sad Bird focuses on the theme of the road trip, how despite being typically treated as an American past-time, is not bound by political borders. The idea of the road trip has attracted photographers for generations, especially since the success of Robert Frank’s famous “The Americans,” and further pioneered in color photography by the likes of Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Joel Sternfeld, Joel Myerowitz, and many others.
Nothing is Interesting and Everything is Normal
Self-published through Sad Bird Books
Various photographers, curated and designed by Jeff Smudde, text by Jeff Smudde. Published November 12, 2019
118 images, 124 pages, 8.5” x 11”
The first submission-based zine by Sad Bird, Nothing is Interesting and Everything is Normal is about the ordinary in many definitions. Photographers who submitted defined ordinary for themselves, and used photographs that exemplify their definition of ordinary. After all, once you put a frame around something ordinary, it suddenly becomes extra-ordinary.