Trash Flowers book

"Under the unassuming guise of a man walking his dog, Trash Flowers is a love letter to a beloved family member that has passed on in the form of a love letter to the city of San Jose. How more can one express such an unconditional love than through a loving portrayal of a city's sewer system? Jai Tanju understands the visual language of trash and what it can tell us about the alternative ways these waterways are used. In the tradition of the best photobooks, he leads the viewer through a personal saga filled with poetic observations of a constantly evolving time and place." -Ed Templeton

The Trash Flowers book is a 20 year documentation of the Guadalupe River that runs through downtown San Jose. It wasn’t a serious project when I started walking Frida there around 2007, more just observations that built up over the years that became a bit of an obsession when I discovered the actual Trash Flowers which I religiously looked for after every flood accrued…

The Idea was respired in the winter of 2022 with its historic rainfall and a chance storage find of an old cd by the Mumlers “Thickets & Stitches” & the song Red River Hustle which embodies life here in San Jose at that time.

The book is 108 pages of color/black & white photographs with a perfect bind. It also comes with a bonus iPhone zine & insert of my project called FlightPath.

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