Photographer Reuben Radding has just released his first book, 'Heavenly Arms,' which he says, “summarizes what I’m all about.'
Photographer Reuben Radding has just released his first book, “Heavenly Arms,” which he says, “summarizes what I’m all about.”
Radding, once a bass player, arrived in New York 36 years ago after coming to the conclusion that he wasn’t going to be able to further his career in music in his native Washington, DC, as it wasn’t a particularly ambitious scene. He landed a gig at the legendary East Village music zine shop “See Hear,” and during his seven years helping owner Ted Gottfried run the place, “everyone who I wanted anything to do with came through the shop.
“At some point, I thought that maybe it would be helpful to have a hobby,” Radding adds, so he took up photography. “It’s a completely different way to create. … As soon as I got a camera in my hand my first inclination was to go outside to shoot. I didn’t tell anyone that I was a photographer for two to three years.
“It’s fascinating,” Radding notes. “I’m seeing pictures from people all over the world — Jakarta, Germany, the United States … I’m helping people to find their own way of operating.” Rather than let his more personal work pile up unseen, he began putting out zines in 2019, compiling his favorite images from each period and printing up 100 copies of each issue. Many of those images are in the new book — thankfully, as all 14 of those publications are sold out.“The first six months were the hardest,” he admits. “I didn’t know it was going to take a year to find its correct state.”“They know me very well, and we speak the same language of photography,” Radding explains.
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