8×10” 84pgs; softcover, uncoated paper stock Books are stamped with gold fumetti cloud and signed in pencil 2026 Fumetti is an Italian word – literally “little puffs of smoke” – a reference to speech balloons, the narration in comics. Outside Italy, fumetti often refers to a specific genre: photo comics—stories told using photographs instead of drawn illustrations, with dialogue added in speech bubbles or captions. In the past I have considered figuring out a way to bridge the gap between comics and photography. Fumetti pairs photos taken in the early 2000s, in a body of work that would become the collection known as The Ship Escaped, with comic books that Soter has had since he was a child. The visual relationship between the two is often ironically funny, contains similar textures or patterns or perhaps has elements or characters that repeat from the photograph to the comic frame. Originally printed in 2011 as a Deluxe Edition of only ten numbered copies, Fumetti is in the collection of the Watson library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
