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. Through the dislocation of space, he weaves together imagery to construct a world that exists in the liminal, investigating themes of mysticism, identity, ritual, and animism.
He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and his body of work, Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest), was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucie Photo Book Prize, and sold out of its first edition of hardcover books. A second edition was released in late 2023, coinciding with a solo show at the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Jake is currently an assistant gallery manager/associate curator of photography, a content editor for Lenscratch, and the founder of wych elm press.
