Aqualamb Announces Book Launch and Photo Exhibition for Christian Rutledge's An Inch of This New York Mile, August 27–29 at 14BC Gallery.
Featuring photographer Harriet Roberts and special musical guests' performances.
Aqualamb announces the book launch of An Inch of This New York Mile, a 130+ page companion volume to Christian Rutledge's solo debut album of the same name, running August 27–29 at 14BC Gallery. The launch pairs the book — a collaboration between Rutledge, and music and street photographer Harriet Roberts — with a photo exhibition of Roberts' original photographs from the book, alongside three nights of talks and performances. Built as a visual and narrative counterpart to the record, the book pairs Rutledge's lyrics with Roberts' photography, tracing the album's story through images, text, and content only available on the page.
ABOUT CHRISTIAN RUTLEDGE
After years behind the kit in NYC rock outfits like Vagina Panther and Space Merchants, Christian Rutledge steps out front with An Inch of This New York Mile, a solo debut of spare, deeply humane songwriting steeped in Guthrie, Gillian Welch and Billy Bragg. With production by Matt Shane (Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello) and a crack band of Cash sidemen, Rutledge spins city stories the way country legends spun rural ones — bodega owners staking their claim, subway workers underground, Brooklyn heartbreak with a tote bag on its shoulder. Haunted, humorous, and quietly devastating.
ABOUT HARRIET ROBERTS
Harriet Roberts' work is inspired by the ordinary and extraordinary moments of everyday life, and the people she encounters along the way. Through photography, she seeks to capture fleeting moments that reveal something essential about the human experience. Drawn to the slower, deliberate practice of film, Roberts transforms photographs into tangible objects that carry the marks of both the moment and the process that made them.
ABOUT AQUALAMB
Inspired by the lack of album art in the age of invisible music, Brooklyn-based record label AQUALAMB publishes 100+ page printed books of artwork and writings as physical accompaniments to its releases. Essentially, each album's art and liner notes (traditionally confined to an LP gatefold, a CD booklet, or the screen of some music-playing device) are reconfigured into an expanded book form. Books as unique and immersive as the records they accompany — from graphic novels to artist monographs and beyond.
@aqualambrecords -Aqualamb
@xtianrut -Christian Rutledge
@harrietejroberts -Harriet Roberts
@zackplastic -Zack Plastic
Poster art by Parker Falke @parkerrsophiaa