My new book, This Place of Silence: Ohio’s Cemeteries and Burial Grounds, was released last month by Ohio University Press, and signed copies are now available from the Books section of my website. The book retails for $29.95, plus $6 packing and postage. Here is a website link.
This book is my second collaboration with co-photographer Randall Lee Schieber, with whom I also produced the photographs for Ohio in Photographs: A Portrait of the Buckeye State, published by Ohio University Press in June, 2017. Both of these books include landscape photographs taken in all 88 Ohio counties, with Randy Schieber covering Ohio’s southern 44 counties and yours truly producing the images in the 44 northern counties of the Buckeye State. Randy and I both had large files of stock Ohio landscape photographs we were able to use for Ohio in Photographs, but each of us traveled more than 25,000 miles during 2021, 2022, and 2023 to create the new cemetery images used in This Place of Silence. Much of this imagery was taken during the Covid-19 pandemic, but fortunately researching, investigating, and traveling to cemeteries around Ohio is not a social activity and the Covid-19 pandemic had a minimal impact on our cemetery photography for the new book.
I have several slide presentations and other promotional events associated with This Place of Silence scheduled over the remainder of 2024, including a slide presentation in the beautiful Wade Chapel at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland on Sunday, October 20, at 5:00 pm. I will be signing books after the program, and also accompanying visitors on a stroll around the Wade Chapel lake to view several of the monuments and gravestones included in the new book. Here is a link to the Lake View Cemetery website, which has additional information:
https://www.lakeviewcemetery.com/events/2024/09/06/an-evening-with-photographer-ian-adams
Lakewood Public Library on Cleveland’s West Side is currently hosting an exhibit of some of my tree prints, and I will be discussing This Place of Silence during a “Meet the Author” evening event at the library on Wednesday, September 25, at 7:00 pm. This program also includes a book signing. For more information, visit the Lakewood Public Library website.