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 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 is a photographer, book artist, writer, and educator based in Providence, RI. He received his BFA in photography from Lesley University, College of Art and Design, and is currently an MFA candidate at Rhode Island School of Design. His work reflects upon how text and image ask for and negotiate with faith, belief, and perception, investigating themes of empathy, myth, phenomenology, and death.
His work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Griffin Museum of Photography, Haute Photographie Rotterdam, Center for Fine Art Photography, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Candela Books + Gallery, and more. Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest), his debut monograph, was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucie Photobook Prize and has since sold out of its second edition. His publications are held in collections at the National Gallery of Art, the School of Visual Arts, SMFA at Tufts, and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Jake is a photography and book arts workshop instructor and the founder/director of wych elm, an independent imprint creating small-run photo books, zines, and fine art ephemera.
