When the Wind Blows North - Cole Barash

Deadbeat Club and TBW Books are pleased to announce the publication of When the Wind Blows North, a new monograph by artist Cole Barash. Begun following the passing of his father, When the Wind Blows North originated as a personal act of retracing wilderness routes his father once traveled. Over the following five years, the project gradually expanded beyond its personal origins into an exploration of how photographs, landscapes, and family histories continue to shape one another across time. Made across the American West and Northeast, the photographs consider landscape not simply as a setting, but as something lived within. The work moves between landscapes, intimate observations, and silver gelatin prints from his father's archive, bringing photographs made decades apart into dialogue with one another. Rather than reconstructing the past, the sequence allows multiple generations of seeing to coexist within the same landscape. Rather than following a linear narrative, When the Wind Blows North unfolds through recurring forms, shifts in scale, and visual echoes. Meaning emerges gradually through repetition, sequencing, and the relationships formed between images, inviting a slower way of looking while reflecting the ways memory shifts, accumulates, and is continually reinterpreted over time. In keeping with Barash's late father's lifelong dedication to wilderness exploration, a portion of proceeds from the publication will benefit Big City Mountaineers, a nonprofit organization providing wilderness mentoring expeditions for young people from under-resourced communities.   Cole Barash (b. USA) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans analog, digital and archival photography, sculpture, and film. His portraiture and still-life works are distinguished by an organic, spontaneous intimacy, capturing moments of quiet, yet profound, connection. Barash’s work has been exhibited globally, and his books are held in prominent public collections, including the Franklin Furnace Archive and the MoMA Manhattan Artists’ Books Collection. His photography has garnered widespread recognition, appearing in esteemed publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vogue, among others.