THE WOODS GLOW PAST MIDNIGHT
Jake Benzinger
Tabitha Barnard
Collaborative Zine
Summer 2024
1st Edition of 100
Staple Bound
32 Pages, 18 Images, 5 Page Full-Bleed Illustration
10 1/2 x 6 3/4”
Jake Benzinger
Tabitha Barnard
Collaborative Zine
Summer 2024
1st Edition of 100
Staple Bound
32 Pages, 18 Images, 5 Page Full-Bleed Illustration
10 1/2 x 6 3/4”
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THE WOODS GLOW PAST MIDNIGHT is a collaborative zine featuring work by Jake Benzinger and Tabitha Barnard. The two explore ritual, witches, the occult, and the New England landscape as a set for storytelling.
Through image-making, Jake and Tabitha explore mythos, both self-created and inspired by folk and fairy tales. Drawing on similar influences and sharing a similar visual vocabulary, their work pairs together to document a world between fiction and reality.
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about the artists
---------------------------------------------------------------Tabitha Barnard (she/her) is a photographer who grew up as the oldest of four sisters in
rural Maine. She works primarily in analog color photography, exploring themes of
femininity, religion, and ritual. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maine
College of Art in the Spring of 2016 and her Master's degree in Fine Art Photography
from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the Spring of 2021.
Tabitha
currently lives and works in Portland, Maine, teaching at the Maine College of Art and
the University of Southern Maine.
Jake Benzinger (he/him) is a photographer, book artist, and writer based in Rockland, Maine; he received his BFA in photography from Lesley University, College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA. His work explores self-created mythos, weaving together imagery to navigate the space between fiction and reality—investigating themes of identity, mysticism, animism, and death.
His work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Center for Fine Art Photography, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 82Parris, Panopticon Gallery, RIT City Space Gallery, and more. He has been featured by numerous platforms including Lensculture, Float Magazine, Lenscratch, Transference Magazine, and Fraction Magazine. His publications are held in collections at the National Gallery of Art, School of Visual Arts, and Griffin Museum of Photography, and his monograph, Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest), was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucie Photobook Prize.
Jake is currently the assistant gallery manager, associate curator of photography, and curator of books at Blue Raven Gallery, a content editor for Lenscratch, and the founder/director of wych elm, an independent press creating small-run photo books, zines, and fine art ephemera.
