ALL FOR THE BEST

Black: the absorption of light.

Gold: a precious element.

To place gold on black: to deposit value, color, and reflectivity unto an otherwise umbral arena.

All for the Best is a book, printed with gold ink on black paper. We start from a dark place, and we aim for the light– do we succeed? Is it for the best? And does it even matter, so long as we try?

Photographs: Kevin Kunstadt
48 pages | 24 photographs
Risograph printed | Spiral Bound
Size: 8 x 12 inches
Edition: 100
New York City, January, 2020

Kevin Kunstadt (b. 1982, New York, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2004, and his MFA in photography from Hartford Art School’s international limited residency program in 2017.

Kunstadt's work has been exhibited at such venues as: Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, Kominek Gallery in Berlin, GE World Headquarters, and Smith College, among others. His work has been published in countless print and online publications including National Geographic, TIME, WIRED, Bloomberg, and AI-AP's American Photography 27 and 31. He served as the co-founder and co-director of K&K Gallery in Brooklyn, NY for three years, with a focus on promoting the work of young and un-established photographers in the New York City area, and from around the world. He has also collaborated on the design of several architectural projects that relate to vision, history, and social justice, the most recent of which was an award winning proposal for the Monument Avenue GD/GD design competition.

Since 2010 Kunstadt has produced several photographic projects in book form, on subjects as varied as: asphalt road re-surfacing, gunpowder, scrap metal, and “sneakers, bricks, and politics.” Most recently these have been nominated for the Mack First Book Award, and Shortlisted for the Kassel, Luma Rencontres, Fiebre, and La Fabrica Dummy Awards. He has collaborated with the Image Threads Collective to establish the first Photobook library in Havana, Cuba, and he has taught photography at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, NY, as well as through an array of workshops worldwide.