Promotional Information

Here is a list of local (art)book sellers in the Washington Baltimore area that the artist will contact for promotion.
Atomic Books http://www.atomicbooks.com/
Kramer Books http://kramers.com/bookstore
Politics and Prose http://www.politics-prose.com/
Upshur Street Books http://upshurstreetbooks.com/
The National Gallery of Art, The Gallery Shops https://shop.nga.gov/cms/customer-service/customer-service/1.html

Photographer, Ken D. Ashton's website: http://www.kendashton.com/

Andrea Smith, Publicist
National print and online campaign
Social Media campaign
Promotion through: www.daylightbooks.org

• Art and Photo magazines: Aperture, Photo District News, American Photo, Popular Photography, Professional Photographer, Rangefinder, Shutterbug, The Photo Review, British Journal of Photography, Photographer’s Forum, Hot Shoe International, Photo-Eye, LensCulture, among others.

• Niche: 1) Magazines that cover culture, urban planning, socio-economics, politics, such as Mother Jones, The Atlantic (City Lab), The Economist, The Week, The Nation; 2) media in Ohio region (though some may pass as it’s a sad story); 3) Green magazines such as Orion.

• General interest publications (books, art, culture): The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, New York Review of Books, Brooklyn Rail, Dwell, Metropolis, Reader’s Digest, Bookforum

• Trade press: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Choice

• Top Market Newspapers: Pitch a broader piece that connects the situation in Portsmouth to what is happening in many other US cities to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Ohio papers (especially those close to Portsmouth), The Guardian (UK), The Financial Times (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), etc.

• Blogs/Online: The Atlantic “City Lab” blog, Hyperallergic, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Slate, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, aCurator, Musee magazine, We-Heart, Colossal, etc.

• Broadcast: NPR programs (national and local), CNN

About the Author

Ken D. Ashton resides in Washington, DC, and has spent the past 25 photographing neighborhoods throughout the world, with DC as a center point. The largest project being an encycopedic undertaking of photographing communities in the Northeastern corridor of the US, from DC to Boston, entitled Megalopolis. Ashton's work has been featured in exhibitions in many venues, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, North Carolina Museum of Art, Ludwig Forum, Aachen Germany.

Ashton's photographic work is primarily of urban neighborhoods. Drawn to areas both in transition and communities that have remained consistently intact. Showing the urban landscape and its' influence on our thoughts, actions, and imagination. Ashton's new work documents the small River town of Portsmouth, Ohio. It is the other side of Appalachia with its fair share of sad history.

Paul Roth is Director of the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Previously, he served as Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC; as Executive Director of The Richard Avedon Foundation in New York; and as archivist of the Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Roth has helped realize numerous exhibitions and film series, including Scotiabank Photography Award 2014: Mark Ruwedel (2015), Edward Burtynsky: Oil (2009), Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (2008), Sally Mann: What Remains (2004), and I…Dreaming: The Visionary Cinema of Stan Brakhage (National Gallery of Art, 2002). He is author and co-editor of Gordon Parks: Collected Works (Steidl, 2012).

Kriston Capps is a critic and reporter. He is a staff writer for CityLab, the urbanism site for The Atlantic, where he writes about housing, architecture, urban design, and other topics. He is a former senior editor for Architect magazine. His writing about art and architecture has been published by Artforum, New York, The Washington Post, Slate, Art in America, and many other publications. Capps is also a contributing editor for the Washington City Paper and writes weekly art reviews and art news for the paper.

Capps was the winner of the inaugural 2016 Sarah Booth Conroy Prize for Architectural Journalism and Criticism. He has given talks at the Phillips Collection, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. As an adjunct, he has taught seminars at George Washington University, the University of Maryland, and Maryland Institute College of Art. Capps has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin.