About The Book
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.
Kircher’s photographs trace the repetition, exhaustion and confinement that define daily survival as Kiss fights to create a loving and stable domestic environment for her children. Kircher seeks to share her lived experience with all its complexities, contradictions and struggles. Publisher’s Info
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About The Artist
Abdulhamid Kircher (b. 1996) is an artist from Queens, New York. He was born in Berlin to German and Turkish parents, and immigrated with his mother to the United States at the age of eight. His work is a living archive of place and people, as it is also a dedication to the language of photography, the mechanics and aesthetic possibilities of the form. He received his BA in Culture and Media from The New School in 2018 and his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego in 2022. His debut monograph Rotting from Within was published by Loose Joints in 2024 on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. Abdul currently lives and works between Berlin and New York.
Video: Abdulhamid Kircher (Loose Joints) | Paris Photo
Exhibition: Abdulhamid Kircher: Rotting from Within | Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 05.06.–01.11.26 | 9th Triennial of Photography.
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Specifics
Abdulhamid Kircher: New Genesis (Loose Joints, 2026) | Texts throughout by Sierra Kiss | Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon | Designed by Loose Joints Studio | 170 x 230 mm, 144 pages, 70 colour & duotone plates | Section-Sewn clothbound debossed hardcover. Link.
