Paul Thulin-Jiménez

Books

Most of the work is made as books first. Paper, binding, format and sequence are part of what each one says. Completed and in-progress books are shown here as objects.

2026
Edition, released 2026
X, the cover
X

With Cody-Rose Clevidence. Hardcover, section-sewn, 8.5 × 11 in., 126 pages: 80 photographs and nine poem plates interleaved with metallic-silver and handmade papers, the poem handwritten in silver ink. Co-designed with Rory Sparks, bound by Sparks. Edition of 10, 2 AP, 2 collector's boxes.

2023
Edition of 6
The 100 Yrs box open, with folders and letters
Isla de Las Palmas: 100 Yrs

Riso-printed boxes made with Rory Sparks, 11 × 13.5 × 2 in. Ten of thirteen photograph and letter pairings in each; no two boxes alike.

2021 · 2022
Newsprint · edition of 25
Isla de Las Palmas cover and slipcase
Isla de Las Palmas

Fifty photographs, no captions, 45-gram newsprint, 64 pages, 11.5 × 15 in. Collector's Edition with Rory Sparks: custom folio, tipped-in print, signed archival photograph.

2024
Edition of 100
Memory Orchards

Candela Books, 2024. Hardcover, edition of 100.

2019
Edition of 750
Pine Tree Ballads, front and cover
Pine Tree Ballads

Candela Books, 2019. Hardcover, 9.75 × 9.75 in., 198 pages, 100 plates. Afterword by Dora Malech.

2027
In progress
Guasábara, mangrove roots lit by flash
Guasábara

With the poet Rubén Ramos Colón. Thirty-five photographs in sequence; the writing is being made to it now.

2028
In production
Sol y Sombra, a rooster crossing a Santurce street
Sol y Sombra

A photographic book with writing at its center: prose, handwritten suturas and family photographs. Forthcoming 2028.

Process · Ephemera

How the projects are built: spreads, dummies, sequence studies, letters, notes and the material they come from.

AllSpreadsCovers and bindingsSequence studiesContact sheetsDummiesNotes and handwritingLettersInstallationPrinted ephemeraArchival photographsResearch
Spread · Isla de Las Palmas, pp. 45–46
Poem plate · X, By Gaze
Letter · Bertha Vando Vélez, 100 Yrs
Spread · Pine Tree Ballads
Accession record · Dissolving Boundaries, Document F12
Installation · gold silk, El Cuadrado Gris, 2020
Exhibition poster for Isla de Las Palmas at El Cuadrado Gris
Printed ephemera · El Cuadrado Gris poster, 2020