MORE PAINT (signed)

$60.00

A meditation on place and power, MORE PAINT sketches a portrait of Seattle in the midst of unraveling and reassembly. Brandon Bye’s photographs are sharp and disquietingly familiar—scenes we pass without seeing. Paired with spare, unsentimental prose, Bye captures a city grinding against itself, a city where homelessness, policy, and civic identity crash and splinter.

Between permanence and erasure, ownership and displacement, this debut photobook is a study in tensions. It invites us to question the forces shaping our environment, to stop and look again at what gets covered up, and why.

Item Description

Photographed over two years and spanning 156 pages, MORE PAINT documents a pivotal moment in Seattle’s history, following as it navigates the layered politics of public space. Across seven chapters, Bye offers an unfiltered reflection of the city’s shifting identity, tracing graffiti, encampments, and the architecture, and aesthetics, of erasure. Printed on uncoated stock and bound with care, the book stands as both object and archive—a still-point amid the motion, preserving the textures and patterns of a city remade.

Preorders ship in March 2026. All books will be carefully packaged and include tracking.

Specifications

Format
10.5 × 10.5 in hardcover
7/8 in spine thickness
Navy linen spine with exposed 3 mm chipboard
7.5 × 5 in tipped-in photograph set into a debossed panel
Spot UV gloss varnish on cover image
Foil-stamped cover and spine text

Interior
160 pages
Uncoated matte stock
Spot varnish applied to all interior images

Credits
Photographs & Text: Brandon Bye
Editor: Lisa van Dam-Bates
Design & Print Production: Nate Gowdy

Acknowledgment
This project was supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.