Nadia Lee Cohen has released Holy Ohio, a deeply personal monograph created with WePresent that marks her first return to her extended family in Ohio in more than twenty years.
Blending stark, unsentimental portraiture with flickers of childhood memory, Cohen captures the textures of rural Midwestern life across four generations, revealing the family dynamics, domestic disorder and quiet rituals that shaped her earliest impressions of America. Designed to resemble a Bible, the book features a white recycled leather cover and 150 pages printed on tactile stocks including GardaPat Kiara and Offenbach Bible Paper, giving it an archival, devotional presence.
Accompanied by contextual notes that trace her long-standing fascination with American iconography, an influence woven through her acclaimed fashion, pop-cultural and gallery work, Holy Ohio stands as one of Cohen’s most intimate and revealing projects to date.
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