HOW TO CLIMB A TREE by Aparna Nori

Clothbound hardcover with open spine
16.5 X 22 cm
160 pages with a small 16 page booklet insert
Edition of 380 + 60 Special Edition (signed and numbered)
Offset printed on uncoated FSC certified paper
Published in 2024 by Editions Jojo

Aparna’s deeply lyrical photobook explores photography as a means to temporally anchor the affective nature of memory through experiential arcs, and shared spaces. This personal, intuitive image series episodically documents a timespan when her 10-year-old son was living in a boarding school in Madanapalle, India. What emerges is a collaborative project between mother and son drawn over five years of communication, wherein the images become meditative, introspective traces
of places and moments that felt like home for both of them. Through the visual explorations, the artist takes liberties to re-enact and find alternative imaginings to moments that could not be documented. Interspersed with handwritten letters and illustrations, the book examines how a physical absence or distance can be expressively redrafted through emotional awareness. In this photobook, Aparna creates a safe space - one in which she allows her own vulnerability of the
experience of motherhood to slip through while also trying to root her son, giving him a way to return to this time and space again and again.

Awards:
Final Winner’s list at the Belfast Photo Festival, 2024.
Shortlisted at Athens Photo Festival 2024.
The final dummy book was recognised as Runnersup to the Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant
2023.