Why?

“I’ve been lucky to work with Annie for over 20 years as she has gone about documenting many of the notable cultural figures of our time. Of course, her books hold a certain personal significance to me— from A Photographer’s Life to At Work but my favorite among them is Pilgrimage. This gorgeous book is a deeply personal statement to what has inspired, shaped and fulfilled her life as an artist. Her photographs of the ephemera that remains — from Virginia Woolf’s writing desk to Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium— were part of a project she undertook in response to a challenging time in her life — “an exercise in renewal,” she writes in the book’s essay, “looking at history provided a way of going forward.”
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- Kathryn MacLeod, Producer