Inventory of the Impermanent
Fishers Island, NY


Inventory of the Impermanent brings together photographs made during the seven years Matt Kaelin lived year-round on Fishers Island. The book documents a year-round community through portraiture while also tracing a personal experience of the island through its homes, shorelines, paths, and everyday surroundings. Edited after Kaelin moved to the mainland, Inventory of the Impermanent looks back on a chapter of life left behind.

Matt Kaelin is a photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. Inventory of the Impermanent is his first monograph.


Hardback with linen cover
168 pages, 82 images in full color
8.8 × 11.3 inches
ISBN 978 90 5330 968 1

Introduction by Pierce Rafferty
Director, Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Fishers Island, NY

Design by Cara Buzzell
Co-published by Schilt Publishing

$75.00

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