Books - Whitehot Recommends: "West West: Twin Perspectives Of The American West" Maryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud

Maryam Eisler Moody Corridor at Night, The Hotel Paisano , Marfa, TX

By MARCARSON May 29, 2025

West West: Twin Perspectives Of The American West
Maryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud

Forward by Howard Greenberg
Introduction by Carrie Scott
Designed by Roger
Fawcett-Tang of Struktur
Design
Title: West West: Twin Perspectives Of The American West
Author: Maryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud
Publication Date: June 11, 2025.
Publisher: Struktur
Format/Availability: 2 x 220 page hardcover, 240 x 300mm landscape format cloth case-bound editions with
a de-bossed photo inset, 1 x 40 page paperback essay book Contained in bespoke slipcase, bound with cloth
500 copies

Synopsis: In March 2024, Maryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud embarked on a collaborative journey. For weeks they ventured across America - through parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah - photographing space, place and people along the way. Without ever sharing their images with one another, they went into the landscape together, shooting the same place from their unique perspectives.

Maryam Eisler ‘Keep The Lonely Places Lonely’ Signage, Lobo, TX

Alexei Riboud Arty town on road 54, New Mexico, USA, 2024

At times, they shoot the exact same subject, or location, but never are there two compositions the same, which exemplifies how different all our perspectives are, and how photography is rooted in a person, not a lens. Where Eisler’s compositions almost charge the landscape, Riboud’s anchor. Both provide narrative depth in such different ways. This is not just about the male/female gaze, though that is of course part of this story. But about two people working together, looking together and finding their way across the vast expanse of the West. WM