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R. J. KERN

Exploring ideas of home, ancestry, and place
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    • The Best of the Best (2018-19)
    • Out to Pasture (2016-17)
    • Divine Animals (2012+)
    • The Tomte (2011+ )
  • BOOKS >>
    • Ethereal Echoes (2025)
    • DUMBER and DUMB (2024)
    • The Unchosen Ones (2021)
    • The Best of the Best (2019)
    • The Sheep and the Goats (2017)
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Detail of blind embossing on cover of R. J. Kern, The Unchosen Ones: Portraits of an American Pastoral.

PhotoBook Journal (book review)

January 22, 2022 in Featured Work

“This coming-of-age process, set in the rural environment of Minnesota, is effectively and elegantly narrated in this photobook by R. J. Kern. One is also reminded of similarly noble and historically valuable rural documentation projects by Disfarmer and others…. A spellbinding presentation.”

— Gerhard Clausing, Associate Editor of the PhotoBook Journal

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