Earthquake Weather is the first monograph to draw on Californian artist Colin Dodgson's darkroom practice as a living source, across continuities that surface through drawing deep, sunburned beauty out of the flow of the everyday. Dodgson's eye carries the dual inheritance of two formative disciplines: a surfer's responsiveness to shifting conditions, and a darkroom photographer's exacting precision, the two held together in constant tension against a sense of wonder, bafflement and introspection before the material of the actual.

Through fugues of images reacting across the page, Earthquake Weather poses a quiet challenge to the seduction of Dodgson's precise gaze, insisting on describing a world that both hides and reveals itself within the same blink of an eye. In syrupy, coastal tones, Earthquake Weather speaks to the way we accumulate: in knowledge, within our bodies, through consumption, against entropy.

88pp, 60 colour plates, 245 × 245 mm
Section-sewn debossed softcover with flaps
Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon
Designed by Loose Joints Studio 
Published by Loose Joints
LJ225, August 2026
ISBN 978-1-912719-78-5