Let me start by saying this isn’t a product post. Nobody is selling anything here, and I’m not stocking it. I just think some projects deserve a few words, and this is one of them.
Feels Like Home Volume III landed recently, and it closes out a trilogy. Three books, one idea - give the under-represented creatives of the American Northeast a place to be seen. Not a feed, not a story that disappears in 24 hours… paper.
The project was started by four people. My friend Drew White and Mike Janey take care of the art direction, while Abhi Chandra and Sam Del Pilar handle the scouting and organizing - the part nobody sees, and the part that actually makes something like this happen.
If Drew’s name sounds familiar, it should. He spent 14 years at Bodega in Boston, one of those stores that shaped what a shop could be in this game, he has designed numerous collaborations, has his own brand, and just recently revolutionized drop culture through a collaboration with Saucony (more on that later). On top of that, he’s been designing album covers for regional artists like Cousin Stizz. So when someone like that decides who gets a page, you pay attention.
Now, the book itself.
Volume II had just over 40 contributors. Volume III has 150, from all over the world. That’s a big jump, and I think it says a lot - the circle got bigger, but the point didn’t get lost along the way.
500 pages. 8 x 10 inches. Offset printed across four different paper stocks, with an eggshell paper cover. And inside, detachable posters signed by some legendary photographers. Four paper stocks in one book is not a decision you make to save money. It’s someone thinking about how an image feels in your hands, not just how it looks on your phone.
And that’s what got me.
I shoot a lot (around 120k shots this year) and almost everything I put together, unfortuantely ends up living on a screen.I print when I can, but never to this magnitude. That’s just the reality of it. But a book like this makes a different case - some work deserves weight. It deserves to sit on a shelf, get passed around between friends, pick up a coffee stain or two.
Streetwear, graffiti, hip hop, hardcore… all of it was documented first in zines, flyers, photocopies and books that nobody outside the scene even knew existed. Feels Like Home sits right in that lineage. Same energy, better paper.
It’s not about the page count. It’s about someone taking the time to say: these people, this place, this moment - it’s worth printing.
You can grab a copy straight from the source, over at feelslikehome.studio.
As always, thanks for reading.
