Bringing exceptional work to international audiences
Tusen Takk Press
Photographic books that add to the medium’s conversation
Excellence
The books published by the Tusen Takk Press will always have excellence—both in the work they contain and the materials used in their production.
The Work Comes First
The guiding design principle of the Tusen Takk Press is that the work comes first. Simple, clean design that is emotionally consistent with the photographer’s intentions for their work—that is our objective.
Contributing to the Medium
The finest work deserves an audience—it also deserves the best in book design, the finest papers, and the highest levels of print reproduction and binding skills. That is what we are achieving at the Tusen Takk Press, and in doing so, we’re adding something significant to the history of photography.
Partners in Vision - David Skolkin Design, Trifolio SRL & the Tusen Takk Press
Unparalleled Book Design
David Skolkin and Geoffrey Peckham at the Santa Fe Center Review celebrating the final design of Morning Is a Long Way Home.
Near Continuous Tone Reproduction
Geoffrey Peckham and Massimo Tonolli on press at Trifolio perfecting B&W reproduction using quadtone separations on press
One vision, one press, and one team of two dozen people dedicated to producing the finest offset art book production in the world—that is the team the Tusen Takk Press has assembled. With David Skolkin in Santa Fe in charge of design, Massimo Tonolli and his company Trifolio SRL in Verona, Italy in charge of print production and binding, and Tusen Takk in charge of publishing operations (our staff has a combined 40+ years of experience in the prepress and printing industries), our imprint has the talent and skills necessary to create the highest quality art books ever produced. Months of preparation are put into each book’s design. This is followed by the preparation of matchprint proofs in Tusen Takk’s digital/analogue studios, and the creation of perfect electronic files that contain the proprietary information critical to achieving the most
Perfection on Press
Massimo Tonolli and his team perfecting the color gamut, comparing matchprint proofs with the offset reproduction on press
accurate black and white and color reproduction possible. During the preparatory phase leading up to print production, ink colors are carefully selected (not your traditional CMYK) so that when they’re combined, the offset reproductions will match the tonal range and color gamut of the book’s original artwork. During this time period, multiple press proofs are sent from Italy to Michigan for discussion, adjustment and approval. When the preparatory prepress work is complete, we finally meet in Verona, Italy and spend many long days on press fine tuning each press run, adjusting inks and using our eyes to create the unique, beautiful vision meant for each book’s production. What is achieved can be summed up in two words: the extraordinary.
Unparalleled Book Design
David Skolkin and Geoffrey Peckham at the Santa Fe Center Review celebrating the final design of Morning Is a Long Way Home.
Morning Is a Long Way Home
Tusen Takk Press’ first book—released September 1, 2024
Geoffrey Peckham’s first book, Morning Is a Long Way Home, contains both color and black and white photographs that capture the emotional undertones of the places where we live. The book’s five chapters take the reader on a journey that uses a beautifully articulated visual language rich in symbolism. Peckham’s photographs are uniquely spontaneous, capturing the essence of things in a way that elicits a comparison to poetry—evidencing both life and death. Though the subject matter varies widely, the photographs are cohesively held together by his single, quiet vision. In short, this is an unforgettable book.
From Frank Gohlke’s Afterword for Morning Is a Long Way Home
“In the collective enterprise of art there are people who make use of the tools that have always been explicit in their mediums to address the world in ways the tools make possible. Every so often one of these people gives us the ability to look at the world in a very particular way that has not been explored before—that is what you have here.
…These photographs remind us that the specifics of the world, the way the world looks at a certain point in time and space, are different from any other point in time and space. The camera and its optics, in the right hands, can create records of experiences which are, at their best, poetic distillations of things seen and felt. Geoffrey’s photographs are a testament to what the medium of photography is capable of if you just take it for what it is and let it do what it is meant to do.”
From Geoffrey Peckham
I use a camera to capture the psychological depth and texture of our inhabited landscape. The photographs in this book were forged out of my own experiences, including an understanding of the medium of photography. By this I mean an understanding of what’s come before me and what’s being done now by others who share a love for this medium. Each photograph is a testimony to that history and to how the ordinary can be made extraordinary in a photograph.
It’s something of a mystery how transference of meaning sometimes happens when the world is clearly described in a photograph. What’s interesting to me is using photography to convey aspects that make us human—such as joy, suffering, loneliness, love, and the perception of beauty. Time and again I have seen how my photographs awaken memories of these aspects of life in viewers, and how re-experiencing these memories is healing. That, in short, is what I believe great art, writing and music is capable of doing for us. And in doing so, it demonstrates to us that we are not alone. In our isolating, technology-driven culture, we need such connections more than ever. That is my hope for those who engage with this book.
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Designer: David Skolkin Design — Santa Fe, New Mexico
Printer: Trifolio SRL — Verona, Italy
Hardcover, 88 pages, double loop wire cloth Swiss binding, archival Mohawk Superfine 80#C (216GSM) paper, foil-stamped on cover
Dimensions: 17” x 11”, page size: 15.75” x 10.63” (400mm x 270mm)
First Edition limited to 775 copies
250 Deluxe Edition signed copies with slipcase and choice of one of five signed archival inkjet prints: $680.00
475 Special Edition signed copies: $180.00
50 Artist Proof signed copies: Not for Sale
For more information and orders, email us info@Tusentakk.org
Deluxe Edition Print Choices
People, Street—New York City, New York, 2019
Trees, Houses, Shoveled Walk, Water Tower—Elyria, Ohio, 2014
Angel Painting, Children—Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2017
House, Mountain, Snow—Matamoras, Pennsylvania, 2014
Storefront, Street, Train, Buildings—London, England, 2014
The Deluxe Edition includes a limited-edition signed archival print made on Canson Arches® 88 310gsm 100% rag paper enclosed in an archival envelope attached to the book’s inside back cover. Print image size: 13.75” x 9.10”, paper size: 14.25” x 10.25”. Fifty copies of each print were made by Geoffrey Peckham for the Deluxe Edition.