Kircher documents the crisis of care in the US through intimate portraits of a mother and her children, navigating survival and institutional neglect. New Genesis examines how American systems of care repeatedly fail the women and children most dependent on them. Made between 2022 and 2025, the project extends Abdulhamid Kircher’s exploration of lived trauma impacted by the intersecting violences of capitalism and domestic insecurity.

At the center of the book is Sierra Kiss and her young family. A friendship developed after Kircher made portraits of Kiss in her home in Los Angeles. Over the course of the four years they have known each other, Kircher has documented her experience of  homelessness, addiction, repeated pregnancies and domestic abuse. The work reveals a broken system of support – from shelters to churches and social services – eroded by chronic underfunding and government policy. When the scaffolding of the world we inhabit fulfills its own promise to keep women in states of dependency and impoverished people in states of powerlessness, how can we expect new generations of healthy, safe and cared for families to flourish?


170 x 230 mm,
144 pages, 70 colour & duotone plates
Section-Sewn clothbound debossed hardcover
Texts throughout by Sierra Kiss
Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon
Designed by Loose Joints Studio
LJ220,
April 2026
ISBN 978-1-912719-73-0