Second Edition Here
Fifteen Vaults by Brandon Tauszik
7.625”w x 10.25” h
98 pages. 71 black-and-white photographs. Interview.
Second edition of 150
ISBN: 979-8-218-22673-2
Photographer Brandon Tauszik met his grandmother only once. Estranged from the family, Shirley Tauszik had been living alone at a YMCA for decades before she passed away in 2020. After their family began receiving monthly invoices from a rural storage facility, he and his father Lowell were tasked with sorting through the enigmatic contents of fifteen enormous, wooden storage vaults.
By unpacking the empty grief of estrangement, Tauszik uncovers the alienation running through the contemporary family experience. His intuitive photographs are punctuated by brief texts, including a copy of Shirley Tauszik’s obituary and an interview with Lowell Tauszik in which father and son discuss the legacies of mental illness, abandonment, and the remedial power of love.
Press:
It's Nice That
Le Monde
Fisheye Magazine
Lenscratch
Booooooom
Bird In Flight
Brandon Tauszik is a image-maker based in Los Angeles and Oakland, CA. Tauszik’s work examines elements of America’s social periphery and has appeared in places like The Washington Post, The Atlantic, the British Journal of Photography, and more. He is the recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center, California Humanities, as well as a fellowship from the Starling Lab at Stanford University.
